Hypoglycemia and Autonomic Nervous System Function

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Hypoglycemia

In brief

The goals of this proposal are to determine the effects of hypoglycemia on the autonomic nervous system.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01816893

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

22

Starts

2004-06-08

Expected to finish

2007-11-06

Last updated by the study team

2018-04-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Healthy volunteers
• Males and females age 18 to 50 years

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnancy
• Lactation
• Subjects who smoke or are on other forms of nicotine will be excluded
• Clinically evident coronary artery, cerebrovascular, or peripheral vascular disease, or presence of systemic illness that might affect autonomic function. Such illnesses include diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, hypertension, renal, pulmonary, hepatic disease, anemia, malignancies, untreated thyroid disease, and alcoholism.
• Current major depressive illness
• Any individuals on oral, injected, inhaled or topical corticosteroids within the last year or oral contraceptives within the past 3 months will be excluded.
• Use of medications other than thyroxine

Where it is running

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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