Potassium and Sodium to Control Blood Pressure in Hypertensives
Launched by UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · Oct 27, 1999
Trial Information
Current as of May 14, 2025
Completed
Keywords
ClinConnect Summary
BACKGROUND:
Appropriately increased interest and concern about high blood pressure as a major public health problem coincided with the indication that the risks of hypertension-related morbidity and mortality could be reduced by reduction of blood pressure. Consensus suggestions that individualized approaches be used in treating patients with mild hypertension stimulated further investigations of non-pharmacological methods. Such investigations were also of considerable interest in relation to understanding the physiology of blood pressure control as well as the development of less costly ...
Gender
MALE
Eligibility criteria
- • Men, ages 45 to 68. Subjects were hypertensive, were treated for at least 3.5 years with antihypertensive drugs and whose diastolic blood pressure was less than 90 mm Hg.
About University Of Minnesota
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Contacts
Jennifer Cobb
Immunology at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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Timeline
First submit
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Estimated completion
Not reported
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