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NCT04035824CompletedPhase 4

Gastrodia and Uncaria Recipe in Treating Stage-one Hypertension: an Evidence-based Optimization Study

Evidence-based Optimization of Gastrodia and Uncaria Recipe in Treating Stage-one Hypertension: a Multi-center, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo Controlled Trial

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 7 Jan 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Gastrodia and Uncaria Recipe is a well-known effective prescription in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat hypertension of liver yang hyperactivity type, which manifests symptom of headache or dizziness. However, it lacks consolidated evidence by multi-center randomized controlled trials. The hypothesis of this study is that Gastrodia and Uncaria granule may have significant anti-hypertensive effect on patients with stage-one hypertension and liver-yang hyperactivity syndrome than placebo. This study is a randomized, controlled, multi-center, double-blind clinical trial. This study aims to recruit 500 hypertension patients who 1) are untreated or taking anti-hypertensive medicine for at least two weeks and 2) have an office systolic blood pressure of 140-159 mmHg, an office diastolic blood pressure of \<100 mmHg, and a 24-hour ambulatory mean systolic blood pressure of \>=130 mmHg. The patients will be stratified according to center, sex, and the TCM type of liver yang hyperactivity/ liver yang non-hyperactivity, and are then randomly assigned to the treatment of Gastrodia and Uncaria granules or placebo for 2 months. The blood pressure lowering effect is evaluated by 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure (primary outcome) / diastolic blood pressure, as well as by home and office blood pressures.

Status (registry)
Completed
Phase (registry)
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
605 (actual)
First submitted
24 Jul 2019
Start date
8 Oct 2019
Primary completion date
12 Apr 2024
Lead sponsor
Shanghai Institute of Hypertension
NCT number
NCT04035824

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 4
  • Participants enrolled: 605
  • From 8 Oct 2019 to the primary completion date, 12 Apr 2024
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • Secondary hypertension, confirmed or suspected.
  • Taking drugs that must be used for other diseases but have a potential effect on blood pressure, such as males taking alpha blockers for prostatic hypertrophy.
  • Having the onset of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, myocardial infarction or heart failure within 6 months.
  • Having a history of atrial fibrillation or frequent arrhythmia.
  • Complicating other diseases that are not suitable for the trial, such as thyroid disease with active medication, acute infectious diseases, chronic mental illness, and tumors.

Lab values

  • Having abnormal lab test results: liver function (ALT, AST, TBL) ≥ 2 times the upper normal limit, or serum creatinine ≥ 176umol/L, or serum potassium ≥ 5.5mmol/L.

Other

  • Failed at ambulatory blood pressure monitoring: effective reading \< 70%, or the number of awakening BP reading \<20, or sleep time BP reading \<7.
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding (for females).
  • Possible poor compliance with the research process.

Who the study is looking for

  • Male and female sex, aged 18-80 years.
  • Not taking anti-hypertensive drugs for at least two weeks, or taking anti-hypertensive drugs for more than two weeks.
  • Office blood pressure averages of three consecutive readings per visit, at two screening visits all meet the limits: systolic blood pressure ranges from 140 to 159 mmHg, and diastolic blood pressure \<100 mmHg.
  • 24h ambulatory mean systolic blood pressure \>= 130mmHg.
  • Agreed to participant, able to join follow-up and to come to hospital at each visit.
  • Signed informed consent.

Age in the registry: 18 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Ruijin hospital
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ShanghaiChinaUnknown status

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