Depression, Aging, Stress and Heart Health Study
30
about 3.6 years
44–55
Female only
1 site in NC
What this study is about
This trial is testing if a stress test called the Trier Social Stress Test can help understand how depression, aging, stress, and heart health are linked in women during menopause. The goal is to see if disrupting certain stress pathways might reduce the risk of heart disease.
Simplified from trial records by PatientMatch.
What you may be asked to do
- 1.Participate in Trier Social Stress Test
Participation Burden
What's physically and logistically required of participants.
Requires travel to a study site
How treatment is administered
Everyone gets the investigational treatment.
Extracted study details
Pulled from the trial record to show what is being tested and what the study is measuring.
Secondary: Change in heart rate variability defined as the root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD) between normal heartbeats in ms in response to the stress task., Heart rate variability defined as the root mean square of successive differences (RMSSD) between normal heartbeats in ms values at rest (before the stress task).
diagnostic
Psychiatry / Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Cardiology / Heart