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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT00179023
Date of registration: 13/09/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Vanderbilt University
Public title: The Autonomic Nervous System and Obesity
Scientific title: The Autonomic Nervous System and Obesity
Date of first enrolment: April 2003
Target sample size: 128
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00179023
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Italo Biaggioni, MD
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Affiliation:  Vanderbilt University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Healthy normal (BMI <= 25 Kg/m2), obese (BMI between 30 and 40)volunteers, lean
hypertensive (BMI 20-28 Kg/m2), and obese hypertensive (BMI between 30 and 40)

- Ages 18-60

- Patients with pure autonomic failure and multiple system atrophy ages 18-80, referred
to our service for the diagnosis and treatment of their condition, and their age
sex-matched sedentary, healthy controls ages 18-80

Exclusion criteria:

- All medical students

- Pregnant women

- Heart failure, symptomatic coronary artery disease, liver impairment, history of
stroke or myocardial infarction, glaucoma

- History of serious allergies or asthma

- Subjects using beta-blockers



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
OBESITY
HYPERTENSION
PURE AUTONOMIC FAILURE
SHY-DRAGER SYNDROME
Intervention(s)
Drug: Pseudoephedrine
Drug: Trimethaphan
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in supine systolic blood pressure after achieving complete ganglionic blockade. [Time Frame: 1-2 hour]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Change in resting energy expenditure after achieving complete autonomic blockade. [Time Frame: 1-2 hour]
Secondary ID(s)
020548
HL56693
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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