NCT01390701

Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of Low-frequency Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Felodipin

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 41 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sahlgrenska University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the blood pressure reducing property of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation with the blood pressure reducing drug felodipin.

Detailed description

Hypertension is a major risk factor for development of several vascular complications and is common world wide. Drug treatment is often necessary to achieve adequate blood pressure reduction but blood pressure control in studied countries is unsatisfactory low. Reasons for failure in treatment are several. Among others reasons intolerable side-effects may prevent successful treatment irrespective of the number of drugs. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) constitutes no risk of interaction with pharmacological agents and previous studies have reported blood pressure reduction.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation	30 min of bi-daily low-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on the upper extremities. Duration: 28+-4 days.
DRUG	felodipin	2,5mg of felodipin once daily. Duration: 28+-4 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2011-07-11
• Last updated: 2011-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden