Heart scan study aims to predict artery disease in High-Risk patients
NCT ID NCT07427472
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study follows 300 adults aged 30–60 with genetically confirmed familial hypercholesterolemia, a condition causing very high cholesterol. Researchers use CT scans to see how coronary artery plaques change over 5 years. The goal is to better understand disease progression and identify those at highest risk.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) with contrast dye
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could help doctors better predict and monitor heart disease in people with familial hypercholesterolemia, leading to earlier interventions.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational imaging study, not a treatment trial. It will not directly improve health, and results may not apply to all patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 300 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2026
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2036
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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30 to 60 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia 2. Aged 30 to 60 years. 3. Patients who underwent a CAC score and a coronary CT angiogram at least 5 years ago, exclusively at the same imaging center (ICT de la Pitié Salpetrière). 4. Patient asymptomatic for exertional chest pain at the time of CCTA 5. Clinical examination performed 6. Beneficiary of a social protection scheme or entitled person (excluding AME) 7. Patient informed and consent form signed Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patient under guardianship, or unable to give consent 2. Pregnancy, breast-feeding 3. Technical contraindication: weight \> 250 kg 4. Simultaneous participation in other interventional research involving the human body, or period of exclusion following previous research involving the human body still in progress. 5. Adults subject to a legal protection order 6. Contraindication to esmolol and/or atenolol 7. Only for patients who need to undergo a CT angiogram and a thoraco-abdominal-pelvic CT scan: * Renal insufficiency (LC\<60) * Unbalanced diabetes when acquiring a previous coronary angioscanner * Personal history of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction at the time of CCTA * Contraindication to iodinated contrast media * Patient having already had an adverse event (AE) during the acquisition of a prior coronary angioscanner
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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APHP- Hospital Saint-Antoine
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, Île-de-France Region, 75013, France
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APHP-Sorbonne, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital
RECRUITINGParis, Île-de-France Region, 75013, France
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Plateau d'investigation clinique (PIC) IHU-ICAN
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, 75013, France
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