Decades of data: can a citywide registry unlock the secrets of stroke and dementia?
NCT ID NCT07771335
First seen Aug 18, 2026 · Last updated Aug 19, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study is a long-running registry that collects detailed health information from all stroke and dementia patients in Erlangen, Germany. It aims to understand how these diseases develop and affect people over time, regardless of age or severity. Participants are followed for life, with regular check-ins to track their health, disability, and quality of life. The goal is to use this information to improve future care and planning for these common conditions.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this registry could provide crucial data to guide healthcare planning and improve prevention and treatment strategies for stroke and dementia.
- What could go wrong
- As an observational registry, it cannot prove cause and effect. Long-term follow-up may be incomplete, and findings may not apply to other regions.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 17,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 1994
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2094
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.
Who is studied
The Erlangen Stroke Project (ESPro) is a community-based survey of all cases of stroke occurring in a university town, located in Bavaria in Southeast Germany. Several overlapping sources of information were used to ensure complete case ascertainment: (1) hospital admission and discharge lists and computer-linked records systems; (2) regular checks of all relevant hospital wards and residential and nursing homes; (3) records of ambulance and emergency services; (4) GPs; and (5) death certificates.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- 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: * All cases of stroke defined according to WHO criteria, as "rapidly developing clinical symptoms and/or signs of focal, and at times global, loss of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than that of vascular origin occurring in Erlangen, Bavaria * No restrictions regarding age (provided they are of legal age), socioeconomic circumstance, stroke severity, or prior health status Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with transient episodes lasting less than 24 hours and those with asymptomatic lesions detected by brain imaging ("silent infarcts")
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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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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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Klinikum am Europakanal
RECRUITINGErlangen, 91056, Germany
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Malteser Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien
RECRUITINGErlangen, 91054, Germany
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Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
RECRUITINGErlangen, 91054, Germany
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