Dietary Potassium and Vascular Health Study
This study is looking at how different levels of potassium and sodium in your diet affect your blood vessels. Researchers want to understand if dietary potassium can protect your blood vessels, especially when you eat a high-sodium diet. You would follow one of three diets for 10 days: Moderate Potassium/Low Sodium, Moderate Potassium/High Sodium, or High Potassium/High Sodium. The study will measure how well your blood vessels expand (conduit artery endothelial-dependent dilation) and how well tiny blood vessels work (microvascular function) after each diet. They are looking for healthy adults between 18 and 45 years old with normal blood pressure and heart readings. The current status of this study is unclear.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 90 healthy participants. It is not specified if the study is randomized or blinded.
- What's involved
- You would consume specific diets for 10 days. Measurements of your blood vessel function would be taken on day 10 of each diet period.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Measurements are taken on day 10 of the diet, but no further follow-up is specified.
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Mechanisms Underlying the Protective Vascular Effects of Dietary Potassium in Humans
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Shannon L Lennon, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Delaware
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What this trial measures
- Conduit artery endothelial-dependent dilationon day 10 of the diet
The change in flow-mediated dilation (FMD) between the 3 diets as assessed by brachial artery FMD
- Microvascular functionon day 10 of the diet
Cutaneous microvascular dilatory response to local heating assessed by laser Doppler flowmetry coupled with intradermal microdialysis