Hot Flashes and Neurovascular Function in Women

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Women who experience hot flashes are at greater risk for hypertension and other cardiovascular disease. Neurovascular control mechanisms are likely to play an important role in this relationship. As such, these studies are designed to provide a major step forward in understanding the link between hot flashes and neurovascular dysfunction and, by extension, cardiovascular disease in women.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mayo Clinic
• Collaborators: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Treatments: Acetylcholine; Nitroprusside; Norepinephrine; Terbutaline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Non-smokers.

• Non-obese.

• Have at least one ovary.

• Free from cardiovascular disease.

• Not taking medications influencing cardiovascular function.

Exclusion Criteria:

• None.