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Effect of a Simulated Flight in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Healthy Volunteers

NCT04031417 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2022-08-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Diabetes is an increasingly common condition which affects millions of people in the United Kingdom. Patients with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk to develop severe heart disease and vascular complications and these can result in death. A cornerstone of the treatment is lifestyle and diet.

The number of travellers is increasing quickly and there are more people than ever travelling by airplane. During a commercial flight the pressure of the air is lower than the pressure on the surface and that results in lower concentration of oxygen in the air we are breathing while flying. Also the humidity is very low inside an aircraft.

The aims of this study are to show if we can use a simulated flight as a method to look at how the endothelial cells react and to see if this is different between patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and healthy volunteers.

A sub-study is also incorporated to look at different dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Hypoxia

OTHER

Low Humidity

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Sathyapalan Thozhukat, MBBS MD · University of Hull, UK

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2015-01-31

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