NCT06878430Not yet recruiting
Reducing Risk of Stroke and DementIa In patientS With COVert cERebrovascular Disease
Reducing Risk of Stroke and DementIa In patientS With COVert cERebrovascular Disease: a Pilot and Development Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of the DISCOVER study is to pilot acceptable approaches to people with covert cerebrovascular disease (CCD) and their follow-up. This is the first step in designing efficient randomised trials of treatments to reduce the risk of stroke or dementia in people with CCD.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 100 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Mar 2025
- Start date
- Oct 2026
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Edinburgh
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT06878430
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 100
- From Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, Dec 2026
- No sites listed in no country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other
- Text of brain scan report unreadable
- Do not consent to take part in study procedures
- Unable to consent
- Unable to communicate by email, letter or telephone through language, speech disability or lack of address
- Unlikely to survive one year past enrolment in judgement of the study investigator
Who the study is looking for
- People who, at the time the letter is prepared or are identified by a clinician
- Age ≥ 65 years
- Have no known history of:
- Stroke or TIA
- Dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Metastatic cancer (or non-meningioma brain tumour).
- A CT or MRI scan report ≤5 years before study start date with of one or more of:
- Cerebral small vessel disease
- Deep old ischaemic stroke
- Cortical old ischaemic stroke
Age in the registry: 65 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
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