Detection of Diffuse Scar in Patients With Diabetes
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Unknown status
Trial end date:
1969-12-31
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Summary
People with diabetes are at an increased risk of heart attacks and heart failure, and it is
important to be able to treat people with diabetes who are at risk for heart disease to
prevent these outcomes. This study is looking at the importance of "diffuse scar tissue" that
is found in the heart of diabetic people. We have discovered a way to detect diffuse scar
tissue by cardiac MRI, a non-invasive test. In this study, we do cardiac MRI on diabetics
with low risk stress test results and follow them for 5 years to see if the measure of scar
tissue in the heart by MRI is related to events. If this study is positive, we will be able
to use cardiac MRI scar tissue measurements to target those patients with diabetes who are at
highest risk.