Exploration of Cardiology

Items	Parameters
Type of study	Case-control
Location	Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João
Patients	Both genders and ≥ 60 years old
Cohorts	Cases: symptomatic CTS and surgical treatment indication
Controls: absence of symptomatic CTS and indication for hand surgical treatment
Exclusion criteria	Patients with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, chronic renal failure under haemodialysis, rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthropathies, multiple myeloma, gout, chondrocalcinosis, Colles’s fracture, space-occupying lesions, or infectious synovitis

Items

Parameters

Type of study

Case-control

Location

Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João

Patients

Both genders and ≥ 60 years old

Cohorts

Cases: symptomatic CTS and surgical treatment indication

Controls: absence of symptomatic CTS and indication for hand surgical treatment

Exclusion criteria

Patients with diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, chronic renal failure under haemodialysis, rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthropathies, multiple myeloma, gout, chondrocalcinosis, Colles’s fracture, space-occupying lesions, or infectious synovitis