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NCT06824805Completed

Hypertension, Ethnicity and Exercise Trial

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Feb 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The main aim of this study is to investigate the acute effects of a single bout of isometric handgrip exercise (IHG) and a single bout of aerobic endurance exercise (AEX) on blood pressure, both immediately after exercise and during the subsequent activities of daily living in patients with high-normal to grade 1 hypertension of South-Asian or African descent living in Suriname.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
60 (actual)
First submitted
10 Feb 2025
Start date
1 Jun 2020
Primary completion date
30 Nov 2023
Lead sponsor
KU Leuven
NCT number
NCT06824805

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 60
  • From 1 Jun 2020 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2023
  • 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

  • • Functional or mental limitation limiting the correct execution of an exercise bout
    • History of ischemic stroke, autonomic neuropathy, cardiovascular, renal, or pulmonary disease by self-report
    • Diabetes type I or II
    • Pregnancy
    • The presence of exercise induced signs of myocardial ischemia or complex ventricular arrhythmia during CPET
    • Patients using three or more antihypertensive drugs or patients with resistant hypertension

Who the study is looking for

  • • Age 18 - 65 years
    • Patients with high- normal BP (SBP: 130 - 139 mmHg or and DBP: 85 - 89 mmHg) or stage I hypertension (SBP: 140 - 159 mmHg or DBP: 90 - 99 mmHg) according to the ESC/ESH guidelines \[15\]
    • Asian or African descent
    • Do not meet the level of physical activity recommended by the WHO based on self-report \[15\]
    • Non-medicated patients or patients using a maximum of 2 antihypertensive drugs

Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Anton De Kom University
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ParamariboSurinameUnknown status

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