About this trial
The goal of this cross-sectional case control study is to investigate the cardiovascular risk in digital osteoarthritis. This study aims to compare the cardiovascular risk between group of patients with digital osteoarthritis and control group of patients with non-osteoarthritis disease paired by measurement of carotid intima-media thickness. All participants will undergo an ultrasound scan to measure carotid intima media thickness, a clinical assessment with the rheumatologist and a cardiovascular risk assessment.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Adult male or female subject
Able to give informed consent to participate in research
Affiliated with a Social Security plan
Consultant in Rheumatology at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital
Disqualifiers
Refusal to participate
Pregnant women, nursing mothers
Subjects under guardianship or curatorship, deprived of liberty, or under court protection
Existence of chronic inflammatory rheumatism (rheumatoid arthritis, spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, lupus, gout, chondrocalcinosis...)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Intima media thickness ultrasound
- hand ultrasound
- EndoPAT™ 2000 system
- X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)