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Innovative Approaches for Personalised Cardiovascular Prevention

An interventional study of PRS and Digital app and wearable device in Cardiovascular Diseases, sponsored by Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS. Recruiting at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 40 Years to 69 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-08-22.

Sponsored by Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Nov 2025, 11 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Jul 2023; still recruiting 3 years 2 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
1,020
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
40 Years to 69 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to study innovative approaches for personalized primary preventive interventions for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the population. The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • efficacy and safety of the intervention
  • how to implement the interventions in the NHS

Participants will be randomized in one of the four parallel arms:

  • standard of care;
  • genetic testing for cardiovascular genetic risk (through the cardiovascular Polygenic Risk Score or PRS);
  • digital intervention with a wearable device and its app;
  • digital intervention and genetic testing (PRS)

The primary outcome we are going to evaluate is the efficacy of returning PRS information of CVD measured at baseline, alone or in combination with the use of a wearable device, on two endpoints: i) change in lifestyle pattern; ii) CVD risk profile modification. The postulated hypothesis is that the achievement of these endpoints is more likely in presence of at least one of the aforementioned interventions than among subjects who receive only traditional risk assessment at baseline, nor respect to subjects receiving traditional risk assessment plus adopting wearable devices.

Read the detailed description

The trial will consist of four phases: an enrollment phase (T0), a disclosure visit three weeks later (T1), a follow-up visit five months after the disclosure visit (T2), and a final follow-up twelve months from enrollment (T3).

Once enrolled (T0), all participants will sign the informed consent form and undergo a comprehensive assessment, which includes:

  • Completing a questionnaire on socioeconomic status, area of residence, and lifestyle, using the Life's Essential 8 tool [1]. The questionnaire will cover smoking status, alcohol consumption, dietary pattern, sleep pattern, and physical activity. Participants will be classified into favorable, intermediate, or unfavorable individual lifestyle patterns according to the Life's Essential 8 score.
  • Blood analysis will be performed to evaluate the lipid profile, including total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides.

At T1, a disclosure visit will be conducted to explain the assigned lifestyle category, share the results of the blood tests, and provide information on the expected interventions based on the assigned group.

The questionnaire will be administered at T0, T2, and T3. Blood analysis and cardiovascular profile evaluation will be conducted at both T0 and T3

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Conditions studied

  • Cardiovascular Diseases

Keywords

  • Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
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In context

Cardiovascular Diseases

4,904 studies on the registry are indexed under Cardiovascular Diseases; 919 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 1,020 is above the median of 100 across 2,738 interventional studies indexed under Cardiovascular Diseases.

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Lead sponsor

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS is the lead sponsor of 920 studies on the registry; 529 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
40 Years to 69 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • high cardiovascular risk based on the SCORE 2 (between 2.5% and 10%)
  • age between 40 and 69 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • diabetes.
  • familiar hypercholesterolemia.
  • established CVD.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
1,020 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • No intervention
    Standard of Care

    Participants will receive traditional lifestyle advices in order to reduce the risk.

  • Experimental
    Genetic testing - PRS

    Participants will receive the information of the genetic cardiovascular risk (PRS) and personalized advices.

    Genetic: PRS

  • Experimental
    Digital intervention - app and wearable device

    Participants will receive an app and a wearable device for the evaluation of various parameters.

    Device: Digital app and wearable device

  • Experimental
    Digital intervention and genetic testing - PRS

    Participants will receive both app and wearable device and PRS information

    Genetic: PRS · Device: Digital app and wearable device

Interventions

  • GeneticPRS

    genetic test for the evaluation of PRS cardiovascular risk

  • DeviceDigital app and wearable device

    a wearable device connected with its app

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in the Lifestyle Category

    The lifestyle category will be measured using the Life's Essential 8 tool. A change will be considered achieved if there is a shift towards a more favorable lifestyle category.

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. Modification of the Lipid Profile

    We will evaluate whether there is a change in the lipid profile compared to the baseline value. The modification of the lipid profile can also be considered as an indicator of the modification of the cardiovascular risk profile measured with the SCORE 2 charts.

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Lloyd-Jones DM, Allen NB, Anderson CAM, Black T, Brewer LC, Foraker RE, Grandner MA, Lavretsky H, Perak AM, Sharma G, Rosamond W; American Heart Association. Life's Essential 8: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association's Construct of Cardiovascular Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2022 Aug 2;146(5):e18-e43. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078. Epub 2022 Jun 29. PubMed 35766027 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 22, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05883878
Lead sponsor
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Collaborators
University Of Perugia, Policlinic Hospital "G. Rodolico", Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone Palermo
Responsible party
Boccia Stefania (Full Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 1, 2023
Start date
Jul 24, 2023
Primary completion
Nov 2025 (estimated)
Completion
May 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 22, 2025

Study contacts

Stefania Boccia
Contact
stefania.boccia@policlinicogemelli.it
+390630154396

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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