Clinical trials: Risk of Heat Stress
Occupational Injuries, Heat Stress
Effect of Rapid Heat Stress on Firefighters Musculoskeletal Injury Risk
This study will examine the effect of heat stress on factors that influence musculoskeletal injury risk in firefighters. Participants will attend 4 data collection sessions. 1: informed consent, screening, and familiarization.
- Conditions
- Occupational Injuries, Heat Stress, Leg Injury, Back Injuries
- Trial name
- NCT06442956
- Testing
- Rapid Heat Condition, Gradual Heat Condition
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport
Exertional Heat Illness
Comparing Exertional Heat Illness Risk Factors Between Patients and Controls
The arduous nature of military training and operations require personnel to encounter high heat load, e.g., during intense physical exertion, particularly in the heat.
- Trial name
- NCT05303142
- Testing
- Heat Tolerance Assessment
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 95 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Portsmouth
Reactive Hyperemia, Micro RNA
Effect on Markers of Cardiovascular, Reproductive and Cancer Risk From Firefighting Training
Epidemiological studies based on Danish registries have observed that Danish male firefighters have more cardiovascular disease, infertility diagnose and a trend to increased risk of cancer than other Danish employed males.
- Conditions
- Reactive Hyperemia, Micro RNA, Heart Rate Variability, DNA Strand Breaks
- Trial name
- BIOBRAND3 (NCT05753254)
- Testing
- Firefighting training exercises with no fire, Firefighting training exercises under wood fire, Firefighting training exercises under gas fire
- Where
- 2 sites in Denmark
- Volunteers
- 35 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Rectal Cancer
Hyperthermia With Chemoradiotherapy in Rectal Cancer
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of deep regional hyperthermia in the context of radiochemotherapy followed by consolidation chemotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer.
- Trial name
- ARO 2024-13 (NCT06831981)
- Testing
- Hyperthermia, Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil
- Where
- 2 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 264 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Tuebingen
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Exercise on Expression of Heat Shock Protein 70 in Arterial Risk
Introduction: Atherosclerotic Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) is the leading cause of mortality in the western world. To maintain homeostasis of the vessel wall, vascular cells produce a high level of heat shock proteins (HSP)…
- Trial name
- HSP70 (NCT04743128)
- Testing
- Exercise
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Muscle Fatigue (C23.888.592.612.612), Athletic Injuries (C26.857.500.124)
Recovery Optimization Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Injuries in Soccer Players
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate if recovery interventions using cold and hot water immersion can reduce the risk of injuries in amateur soccer players.
- Conditions
- Muscle Fatigue (C23.888.592.612.612), Athletic Injuries (C26.857.500.124), Recovery of Function (G11.427.698.620), Cryotherapy (E02.095.301.250)
- Trial name
- NCT06920966
- Testing
- Cold Water Immersion (CWI), Hot water immersion (HWI), Thermography-Guided Immersion (TI)
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Castilla-La Mancha