Blood Pressure, Cerebral Blood Flow and Cognition in Spinal Cord Injury

PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

19

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 31, 2014

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2019

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2019

Conditions
Spinal Cord Injury
Interventions
DRUG

Midodrine

Each arm (2) will last 30 days with a 14 day washout in between each arm. Subjects nor the investigators will know which drug (midodrine or placebo) is administered to the subject for the first arm (30 days) and the second arm (30 days). The subjects will take a pill three times a day. Each subject will return home with a blood pressure monitor and will be asked to report his/her blood pressure at least 3 times a day and complete questionnaires based on how he/she is feeling.

DRUG

Placebo

Each arm (2) will last 30 days with a 14 day washout in between each arm. Subjects nor the investigators will know which drug (midodrine or placebo) is administered to the subject for the first arm (30 days) and the second arm (30 days). The subjects will take a pill three times a day. Each subject will return home with a blood pressure monitor and will be asked to report his/her blood pressure at least 3 times a day and complete questionnaires based on how he/she is feeling.

Trial Locations (2)

10468

James J Peters VAMC, The Bronx

07052

Kessler Foundation Research Center, West Orange

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Kessler Foundation

OTHER

lead

James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center

FED