NCT02340598

Pilot Study of Effects of Cold Vests on Cardiovascular Risk Markers

Prospective Randomized Pilot Study of the Effects of Cold Vests on Cardiovascular Risk Markers and Basal Metabolic Rate

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Linkoeping · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Randomized trial of supplying a cold vest as compared with controls (no cold vest) on cardiovascular risk factors such as blood lipids, insulin, blood pressure and body weight and also on basal metabolic rate. Recruitment of 100 participants and 70 are randomized to being given a vest which they can use to increase basal metabolic rate during 1-2 hours (as long as the pre-cooled vest stays cool) by activating brown adipose tissue and/or shivering. The remaining 30 subjects will constitute a control group. Lab tests and anthropometrics are checked at baseline, after 2 months and after 1 year.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Risk Factors
• Basal Metabolic Rate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cold vest	The lowering of body temperature increases basal metabolic rate

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2015-01-16
• Last updated: 2019-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden