Boston Puerto Rican Health Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Air Pollution, Cardiovascular Health

In brief

The study is a blinded cross over test of in-home air filtration. Participants will have a window unit air filter (HEPA) installed that will filter for 3 weeks and do sham filtration for another 3 weeks. During the time that the filter is installed in the home a machine that measures particulate air pollution of the type that the filter is designed to remove will be installed. A survey will be administered, blood samples taken and blood pressure measured immediately prior to starting the filter, at 3 weeks when the filtration is changed from sham to real filtration or visa versa and at the end of the second three week period. All participants will be recruited from the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study cohort.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03187704

Run by

Tufts University

People needed

23

Starts

2012-05-01

Expected to finish

2014-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2017-06-20

Who can join

Age: 45 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participant in the larger parent cohort of the BPRHS

You may not qualify if…

• None since already enrolled in the cohort

Where it is running

• Tufts University School of Medicine — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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