Effect of Dietary Salt Supplemantation in Vasovagal Syncope Prophylaxis: A Clinical Trial

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: Salt Supplementation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00465946

HCPA04-071

Details and patient eligibility

About

Syncope is a syndrome consisting of a relatively short period of temporary and self-limited loss of consciousness caused by transient diminution of blood flow to the brain (most often the result of systemic hypotension). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of salt supplementation in vasovagal syncope prophylaxis.

Full description

Healthy volunteers without use of medicines with except contraceptives orals that met the exclusion criteria were consecutively enrolled in a randomized trial.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy volunteers

Exclusion criteria

• Use medicines
• Previous diseases
• Incapacity of to understand and to sign the term consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind