Status:
COMPLETED
Exploratory Study of Circadian Relationships Between Social Behavior, Blood Pressure and Metabolomics
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Collaborating Sponsors:
Ginger.io
Conditions:
Healthy
Eligibility:
All Genders
25-35 years
Brief Summary
As citizens of the information age, humans leave digital traces of behavior in their communication and movement patterns through our cell phone. The Global Positioning System (GPS) technology tracks t...
Detailed Description
Cell phones with internet access (so-called smartphones) represent a rich source for user activity data. Each time one places a call, sends a text message, or uses an app, a data trace is being produc...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Volunteers must be in good health as based on medical history, physical examination, vital signs, and laboratory tests as deemed by PI;
- Volunteers are capable of giving informed consent;
- 25-35 years of age;
- Own a cell phone with internet access (smartphone with Android operating system only at this point) which installs the social sensing application ginger.io;
- Non-smoking;
- Male subjects only if feasible during recruitment; and
- In case female volunteers are invited to enroll: non-pregnant, female subjects must consent to a urine pregnancy test.
Exclusion
- Recent travel across time zones (within the past month);
- Planned travel across time zones during the planned study activities;
- Volunteers with irregular work hours, e.g. night shifts.
- Use of illicit drugs;
- Subjects, who have received an experimental drug, used an experimental medical device within 30 days prior to screening, or who gave a blood donation of ≥ one pint within 8 weeks prior to screening.
- Subjects with any abnormal laboratory value or physical finding that according to the investigator may interfere with interpretation of the study results, be indicative of an underlying disease state, or compromise the safety of a potential subject.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2014
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
6 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02249793
Start Date
September 1 2014
End Date
December 1 2017
Last Update
January 18 2020
Active Locations (1)
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Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT), University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104