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Salt Pills for High Blood Pressure

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Led By Ryan Garten, PhD

Research Sponsored by Virginia Commonwealth University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be between 18 and 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up after 7 day high salt supplementation vs after 7 day low salt supplementation

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Study Summary

This trial will look at how changes in sodium intake affects blood vessel function and how much someone can exercise.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ after 7 day high salt supplementation vs after 7 day low salt supplementation

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~after 7 day high salt supplementation vs after 7 day low salt supplementation

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and after 7 day high salt supplementation vs after 7 day low salt supplementation for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Arterial Dilation in Response to Exercise

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Placebo Group

Group I: Salt PillsExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

One week on low salt diet plus salt pills

Group II: Placebo PillsPlacebo Group1 Intervention

One week on low salt diet plus placebo pills

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Salt Pills

2018

N/A

~40

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Virginia Commonwealth UniversityLead Sponsor

698 Previous Clinical Trials

22,884,961 Total Patients Enrolled

Ryan Garten, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorVirginia Commonwealth University

5 Previous Clinical Trials

1,393 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

What criteria must be met to become an eligible participant in this research?

"This clinical trial is accepting 80 patients between 18-35 years old who are diagnosed with hypertension. To be eligible, applicants must also not have a BMI of over 30 and/or under 25% body fat (for men) or 30% body fat (for women), should abstain from tobacco use, refrain from taking medications that could influence vascular function or oxidative stress, as well as avoid being sedentary."

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Is this experiment inviting those over 60 years of age to participate?

"This research trial is recruiting adults between 18 and 35 years old."

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Are there any available openings in this research initiative?

"At present, this particular clinical trial is not recruiting patients. Initially posted on May 15th 2018 and last updated July 19th 2022, the experiment has been concluded for now. Yet there are still 745 other studies that require participants in their trials."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Vascular Responses to Sympathetic Activation and Altered Shear Rate: The Impact of Hypertension and Sodium Intake

2018. "Vascular Responses to Sympathetic Activation and Altered Shear Rate: The Impact of Hypertension and Sodium Intake". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03558022.