Effect of Acetazolamide on Acute Mountain Sickness in Lowlanders Older Than 40 Years

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-08-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Randomized, placebo controlled trial evaluating efficacy of acetazolamide in preventing acute mountain sickness in lowlanders older than 40 years travelling from 760 m to 3'100 m.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Zurich
• Collaborator: National Center of Cardiology and Internal Medicine named after academician M.Mirrakhimov
• Treatments: Acetazolamide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy men and women, age 40-75 yrs, without any disease and need of medication.

• Born, raised and currently living at low altitude (<800m).

• Written informed consent.

• Kyrgyz ethnicity

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any active respiratory, cardiovascular or other disease requiring regular treatment or being otherwise relevant for tolerance of hypoxia or altitude exposure.

• Any condition that may interfere with protocol compliance including current heavy smoking (>20 cigarettes per day or >20 pack-years with active smoking during the last 10 years), regular use of alcohol.

• Allergy to acetazolamide and other sulfonamides.