🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2025-10-21

Heat Waves and the Elderly - Cooling Modalities (NCT05484739)

🟢 Recruiting Observational / Diagnostic 📋 Clinical Research Protocol Sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

The purpose of this study is to assess how well cooling modalities work in reducing cardiovascular stress of the elderly to heat wave conditions

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (2 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (7 items).

Location: Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas — Dallas, Texas

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

  • Exclusion Criteria:
  • Known heart disease
  • Other chronic medical conditions requiring regular medical therapy including cancer, diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, and uncontrolled hypercholesterolemia etc;
  • Abnormality detected on routine screening suggestive of provokable ischemia or previously undetected cardiac disease or resting left bundle branch block on screening electrocardiogram.
  • Current smokers, as well as individuals who regularly smoked within the past 3 years
  • Subject with a body mass index ≥31 kg/m2
  • Pregnant individuals

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)

  • Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas — Dallas, Texas

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

  • 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
  • Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
  • Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.
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