Clinical trials: Altitude Effectiveness
Hypertension, Pulmonary, Altitude Sickness
Efficacy Study of Riociguat and Its Effects on Exercise Performance and Pulmonary Artery Pressure at High Altitude
During ascent to high altitude there is a physiologic response to hypoxia that results in an elevated pulmonary arterial pressure associated with decreased exercise performance, altitude-induced pulmonary hypertension, and high…
- Trial name
- NCT02024386
- Testing
- Riociguat
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Richard Moon
Blood Pressure, High
INTERVENCION Trial
This trial is designed to: 1. Assess the response to montherapy with : a thiazide diuretic (HCTZ), a calcium-channel blocker (CCB, amlodipine) and an angiotensin-receptor blocker (telmisartan), among hypertensive subjects who…
- Trial name
- INTERVENCION (NCT02373163)
- Testing
- Hydrochlorothiazide, Amlodipine, Telmisartan
- Where
- Peru
- Volunteers
- 166 people
- Sponsor
- Prevencion
Acute Mountain Sickness
Altitude Sickness Prevention and Efficacy of Comparative Treatments
This study is designed to be the first to examine the novel drug budesonide for prevention of acute mountain sickness in comparison to acetazolamide and in the context of rapid ascent to high altitude.
- Trial name
- ASPECT (NCT02604173)
- Testing
- Budesonide, Acetazolamide
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 103 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University