An interventional study of cold vest in Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Basal Metabolic Rate, sponsored by University Hospital, Linkoeping. Completed at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-04-24.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Linkoeping · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
Randomized trial of supplying a cold vest as compared with controls (no cold vest) on cardiovascular risk factors such as blood lipids, insulin, blood pressure and body weight and also on basal metabolic rate. Recruitment of 100 participants and 70 are randomized to being given a vest which they can use to increase basal metabolic rate during 1-2 hours (as long as the pre-cooled vest stays cool) by activating brown adipose tissue and/or shivering. The remaining 30 subjects will constitute a control group. Lab tests and anthropometrics are checked at baseline, after 2 months and after 1 year.
University Hospital, Linkoeping is the lead sponsor of 118 studies on the registry; 16 are open to participants now.
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Participants are given a cold vest that the pre-cool in a freezer. They are encouraged to use it daily to activate metabolism through brown adipose tissue and shivering.
Other: cold vest
No intervention, just recording of risk factors and basal metabolic rate.
The lowering of body temperature increases basal metabolic rate
basal metabolic rate
basal metabolic rate measured in the fasting state by indirect calorimetry
Time frame: up to 1 year
Composite measure of cardiovascular risk factors
Blood lipids, insulin, body weight, blood pressure
Time frame: up to 1 year
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