Blood Pressure Lowering Effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the blood pressure reducing property of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation with the blood pressure reducing drug felodipin.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• clinical diagnosis of hypertension, untreated or currently treated with a maximum of one blood pressure (BP) lowering agent

Exclusion Criteria:

• systolic blood pressure >170 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure of >105 mmHg

• second- or third-degree atrioventricular block

• current use of opiates or other intoxicants

• neurological disorders (such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis or peripheral neuropathy)

• need of treatment with TENS, regardless the reason