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Impact of Self-monitoring of Salt Intake by Salt Meter in Hypertensive Patients

NCT04286802 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2020-02-27

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Summary

Hypertension is one of the most common chronic medical conditions. The concerned sequelae are the cardiovascular complications, especially acute myocardial infarction and stroke. In Thailand, the incidence of hypertension is increasing each year. Many clinical studies found that salt intake over the reference level (\>5 g/day) would result in elevated blood pressure (BP) and long-term morbidity. Dietary salt reduction campaigns were unsuccessful, in part, due to time limitation in the clinic, lacking of awareness, and the higher threshold to detect salt taste in chronic high salt ingestion. Salt meter is a device used to detect sodium content in daily food. It will facilitate monitoring and control of salt intake. The 24-hour urinary sodium excretion is an acceptable method to reflect the quantity of sodium intake. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of salt meter plus dietary education compared with education alone in terms of salt intake reduction, blood pressure, salt taste sensitivity, and vascular consequence.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Salt-meter

Salt-meter, developed by Faculty of Engineering at Mahidol University, is a device to measure sodium chloride content in the food and reflects to user with number and symbols for easy-understanding.

BEHAVIORAL

Education

Program dietary education by certified dietician who did not know the patients arm allocation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mahidol University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-07-11
Primary Completion
2020-02-21
Completion
2020-02-28

Countries

  • Thailand

Study Locations

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