Effect of Khat Chewing on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Among Healthy Adults

Aljanad University for Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Rate; Blood Pressure

Treatments: Device: electronic apparatus (visocor OM50).

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05213247

JustMed01/2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a cross sectional study

Full description

Objective: This study aims to investigate .ht short-term effect of khat on the diastolic and systolic blood pressure (DBP, SBP) and heart rate (HR) of yemeni adults. Factors associated with Khat chewing and Khat-dependence were also investigated. That the khat chewing is a growing public habit among yemeni people.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

The participant should be free of any disease and should avoid eating or drinking anything that could affect on BP and HR within two khat before hours chewing (zero time)