Danish Hypertension Prevention Project - DHYPP
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00150631 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified November 2014 by Karin Skov, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : September 8, 2005
Last Update Posted : November 26, 2014
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Hypertension | Drug: Candesartan | Phase 3 |
Essential hypertension, a major health problem worldwide, is a disease generally considered to require life-long treatment. However, evidence suggests that hypertension is caused by specific phenotypic changes caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Thus, in principle, hypertension could be prevented by prevention of these phenotypic changes. Animal data indicate that early treatment that blocks the renin-angiotensin system have long-term effects after treatment withdrawal. The present human study is testing whether early treatment (with the AT1- antagonist) is able to have a persistent effect after stopping treatment.
This is a monocenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study in healthy, normotensive (consultation diastolic blood pressure over 2 visits < 85 mmHg) subjects 18 to 36 years of age whose both parents have essential hypertension. The primary objective is to determine whether pharmacological treatment with an angiotensin receptor blocker is able to restrain or delay the progression to hypertension. Secondary objectives are to investigate whether any long-term effect on blood pressure is related to the effect of treatment on renal haemodynamic function, or on the left ventricle mass.
Subjects are recruited by use of hospital registers to identify persons who have received the indication essential hypertension, and are of an age that they may have children of the appropriate age. These persons are then mailed asking if they do have children with a partner who is also hypertensive, and asking permission to contact the children. The diagnosis of hypertension of the parents is checked following evaluation by the physicians who are treating them.
One hundred subjects were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: placebo; or candesartan cilexetil, 16 mg, once daily. Before inclusion and after 12 months of treatment glomerular filtration rate, renal vascular resistance, echocardiography and 24-hour blood pressure monitoring were performed. Subjects were evaluated at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6 and 10 months to ensure compliance and to control blood pressure. After 12-months of treatment, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring were performed in a scheduled manner over a 10-year period. The primary effect parameter is 24-hour blood pressure measured 10 years after withdrawal of treatment. Interim analyses will be made at 1, 2 and 5 years by an independent data committee. Secondary effect parameters will be numbers on antihypertensive treatment at 2, 5 and 10 years after withdrawal, as well as the effect of treatment on renal vascular resistance and left ventricular mass.
A substudy is comparing renal haemodynamics and genetic profil of the subjects with persons having normotensive parents.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 100 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Double (Participant, Investigator) |
Official Title: | Danish Hypertension Prevention Project |
Study Start Date : | November 2000 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | January 2004 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2014 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Placebo Comparator: active (candesartan)
12 mo treatment with candesartan
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Drug: Candesartan
placebo controlled double blind
Other Name: atacand |
Placebo Comparator: placebo
12 mo placebo treatment
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- The primary outcome is to determine whether pharmacological treatment with an angiotensin receptor blocker is able to restrain or delay the progression to hypertension. [ Time Frame: 10 years ]
- Secondary outcomes are to investigate whether any long-term effect on blood pressure is related to the effect of treatment on renal haemodynamic function, or on the left ventricle mass. [ Time Frame: 1 year ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 36 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Both parents have essential hypertension
- Age 18 - 36 years
- Caucasians
- Diastolic blood pressure less than 85 mmHg at inclusion time
- Female participants using orale anticonceptives ot intrauterine devices
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clinical or biochemically signs of disease in kidney, liver, or endocrine organs
- Diastolic blood pressure above 85 mmHg at inclusion time
- Pregnancy or pregnancy wish
- Daily medication, except for orale anticoncetives -

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Denmark | |
Karin Skov | |
Aarhus, Denmark, 8000 |
Study Chair: | michael mulvany, prof | Dept. of Pharmacology, Aarhus University |
Responsible Party: | Karin Skov, consultant, ph.d., Aarhus University Hospital Skejby |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00150631 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
20000114 |
First Posted: | September 8, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | November 26, 2014 |
Last Verified: | November 2014 |
Hypertension Prevention Offspring Prevent or delay development of hypertension |
Hypertension Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Candesartan |
Antihypertensive Agents Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action |