NCT06348225Completed
Post-exercise Hot Water Immersion to Improve Overnight Blood Pressure
Post-exercise Hot Water Immersion to Improve Blood Pressure Control
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether putting a participant's legs in a hot bath after exercise improves blood pressure in people with higher blood pressure. . The main questions it aims to answer are: * Whether exercise alone, hot water leg bath alone, or both treatments together cause blood pressure to be lower during sleep. * If there are any changes in heart rhythm or blood vessel health after exercise, hot water leg bath, or the two treatments together that relate to changes in blood pressure. Participants will complete four different trials: * 30 minutes of walking with a 45-minute lukewarm leg bath after * 30 minutes of walking with a 45-minute hot leg bath after * 45 minutes of a hot leg bath with no exercise * A day with no exercise or leg bath Researchers will look at heart rhythm, blood vessels, and blood pressure after each of these trials to see if there are differences, and if exercise and heat together can improve heart health more than exercise or heat alone.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 20 (actual)
- First submitted
- 28 Mar 2024
- Start date
- 1 Jul 2024
- Primary completion date
- 10 Apr 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Providence College
- Diseases
- High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT06348225
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 20
- From 1 Jul 2024 to the primary completion date, 10 Apr 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Prior treatment
- taking antihypertensive medications
Other illness
- diagnosed hypertension
- history of heat injury or heat illness
Who the study is looking for
- resting blood pressure \>120/80 mmHg; measured at screening visit
- BMI between 18-39.9
- capable of walking 30 min at a moderate intensity on a treadmill
Age in the registry: 18 years to 50 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence College Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Providence | United States | Unknown status |
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