Scalp acupuncture and primary hypertensio
Phase 3
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: - Health Condition 2: I10- Essential (primary) hypertension
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/12/060555
- Lead Sponsor
- Dr Veni S
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
?Age between 40 to 60 years of both male and female gender
?Patients with history of 1 to 5 years of Grade 1Primary Hypertension
?Patients under single drug or 2 drug combination of Thiazide / Thiazide like diuretics, Calcium channel blockers,Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and other blood thinning drugs in minimum half to maximum dosage
?Clinically stable patients
?All subjects gave their informed consent,
Exclusion Criteria
? Comorbidities that would prohibit participation in study procedures, including active renal dialysis, metastic cancer
? Scar in the scalp needling area
? Enrollment in other studies that involved active interventions;
? Psychiatric comorbidities & Needle phobia
Patients with secondary hypertension
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of Blood pressure in primary hypertensive patients is done using arm type non invasive digital blood pressure monitoring apparatus. Outcome measures will be measured, at the end of the 6th week( end of the intervention )Timepoint: 3 sittings per week on the alternate days for 6 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o secondary outcome is included in this studyTimepoint: Not Applicable