Lifestyle, stress and heart risk factors in people with inherited aortic disease
Surveys lifestyle, mood and heart risks in people with genetic thoracic aortic aneurysm.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato
- Where
- Italy1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Genetic Aortic Diseases and Cardiovascular Complications. An Observational Survey of Risk Factors.
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 208 people, planned
- Started
- 6 May 2025
- Expected to end
- May 2027
- Type of study
- Observational
- Treatments tested
- Journey to diagnosis
- Quality of life, functional health and well-being
- Awareness and self-esteem, acceptance of the condition
- psychological and physical well-being
- Record updated
- 5 February 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for people with a genetic disease of the aorta, such as a thoracic aortic aneurysm (a widening of the main artery in the chest). It surveys lifestyle, stress and other risk factors.
- Age
- 14 Years to 60 Years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Genetic aortic disease (thoracic aortic aneurysm).
Main reasons for not taking part
- People who cannot speak, read and write in Italian cannot join.
- People who do not sign the consent form cannot join.
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- signed onformed consent
- Ability to speak, read and write in Italian
Who cannot take part
- -
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 14 and 60 years old?
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The aim of this observational study is to define the behavioural and cardiovascular risk factor profiles of patients with genetic aortopathies. The main questions it aims to answer are:
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* How do the interconnections between lifestyle, stress, psychological condition, perception of illness, and state of health influence each other in this population? * Beyond traditional risk factors, additional emerging factors should be considered, including pregnancy-related complications, sedentary lifestyle, early menopause and depression. The interplay between eating disorders, lifestyle factors and autoimmune or inflammatory bowel diseases remains poorly understood.
The group in the trial
- TAA
subjects with TAA aged between 14 and 60 years
Treatment: Journey to diagnosis, Quality of life, functional health and well-being, Awareness and self-esteem, acceptance of the condition, and psychological and physical well-being
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Genetic Aortic Diseases and Cardiovascular Complications. An Observational Survey of Risk Factors.
- Plain-language title
- Lifestyle, stress and heart risk factors in people with inherited aortic diseaseGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07391293, who can take part
- Record updated
- 5 February 2026