Recruiting
Phase 1
Phase 2

Acupuncture

Sponsor:

Logan College of Chiropractic

Code:

NCT00724763

Conditions

Hypertension

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 20 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

acupuncture

sham needle treatment

Study Details

Brief summary:

This research is designed to study the effects of needle acupuncture on blood pressure and HRV by stimulating certain acupuncture points and meridians.

Conditions

Hypertension

Study ID

NCT00724763

Start date

Jul, 2008

Status verified date

Jul, 2008

Primary completion date

Jul, 2009

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 20 - 65

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Male or female suffering from mild hypertension (systolic BP between 130-165 mmHg, diastolic BP between 90-120 mmHg).

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals with heart, kidney, thyroid disorders, diabetes, chronic disease or illness, neurological diseases, skin or bleeding disorders,
  • Currently taking prescription or OTC medications and/or herb/supplements that effect BP or autonomic tone will not be recruited into the study.
  • In addition, individuals who have a pacemaker and/or are pregnant will not be recruited in the study. A health history questionnaire was used to screen subjects.

Study Design

Enrollment

40 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: 1

Treatment group.

sham comparator: 2

control group

Interventions

acupuncture

to Liv 3 and PE 9.

sham needle treatment

needle not in meridian area

Primary outcome measure

  • Blood pressure and HRV [ Time Frame: five weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

Logan University

Recruiting

Chesterfield, Missouri, United States, 63017

Contacts

John Zhang, MD, PhD

636-230-1920john.zhang@logan.edu

Principal Investigator:

John Zhang, MD, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Logan College of Chiropractic

Last update posted

Jul 30, 2008

Last verified

Jul, 2008

Keywords

  • acupuncture, high blood pressure, HRV

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Logan College of Chiropractic on 2008-07-30.