Body Weight, Sleep, and Heart Health

October 14, 2026 updated by: Steven A. Shea, Oregon Health and Science University

Circadian Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Risk in Obesity

A multidisciplinary investigation examining the circadian mechanisms regulating cardiovascular (CV) risk, with an additional focus on obesity. Specifically, in a valid circadian protocol, the investigators aim to study resting cardiovascular risk markers and the reactivity of circadian rhythms in these risk markers to standardized stressors. It is intended to compare results in lean and obese individuals to determine if there are specific risks across the circadian cycle specific to obesity. Furthermore, using an exploratory approach, the investigators propose to explore impairment in pre/post synaptic function in the cardiac left ventricle.

Study Overview

Status

Status

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Completed

Conditions

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

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Detailed Description

Overall, these studies will help us answer whether the circadian system predispose individuals to increased CV disease risk - particularly around the vulnerable morning period, and whether these risks differ with obesity. The results will serve as a foundation for clinical trials of appropriately timed dosing of medications targeting aspects of the CV system that increase effectiveness while decreasing side effects, and may have particular relevance to management of CV risk in people with obesity.

Study Type

Study Type

Describes the nature of a clinical study. Study types include interventional studies (also called clinical trials), observational studies (including patient registries), and expanded access.
Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

Enrollment

The number of participants in a clinical study. The "anticipated" enrollment is the target number of participants that the researchers need for the study.
17

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Oregon
      • Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
        • Oregon Health & Science University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

The key requirements that people who want to participate in a clinical study must meet or the characteristics they must have. Eligibility criteria consist of both inclusion criteria (which are required for a person to participate in the study) and exclusion criteria (which prevent a person from participating). Types of eligibility criteria include whether a study accepts healthy volunteers, has age or age group requirements, or is limited by sex.

Ages Eligible for Study

25 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Community sample

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Ages 25-65
  • Lean and overweight (BMI 18.5-40kg/m2)
  • Habitually sedentary

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of smoking/tobacco use
  • Insomnia
  • Moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea.
  • Prior shift work within 6 months prior to the study.
  • Prescription medications
  • Drugs of abuse
  • Acute, chronic, or debilitating medical condition (including diabetes, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome)

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Observational Models: OTHER
  • Time Perspectives: PROSPECTIVE

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort

Group / Cohort

A group or subgroup of participants in an observational study that is assessed for biomedical or health outcomes.
Intervention / Treatment

Intervention / Treatment

A process or action that is the focus of a clinical study. Interventions include drugs, medical devices, procedures, vaccines, and other products that are either investigational or already available. Interventions can also include noninvasive approaches, such as education or modifying diet and exercise.
Normal Weight

Healthy lean controls [18.5<BMI<25 kg/m2 and waist circumference <94/80 cm (men/women respectively)] will participate in a 5-day circadian study protocol with numerous repeated cardiovascular measures across the circadian cycle. Drugs are used as part of physiological monitoring and not as interventions including imaging using radiopharmaceuticals (11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine, and 11C-CGP12177).
Combination product: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning of cardiac function at 3 time points across the 24 hour circadian cycle

Drugs are used for as part of physiological monitoring and not as interventions, including imaging using radiopharmaceuticals (11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine, and 11C-CGP12177).

Other Names:
  • PET scanning
Overweight

Healthy obese [30≤BMI<40 and waist circumference ≥94/80 (men and women respectively)] Healthy lean controls [18.5<BMI<25 kg/m2 and waist circumference <94/80 cm (men/women respectively)] will participate in a 5-day circadian study protocol with numerous repeated cardiovascular measures across the circadian cycle. Drugs are used as part of physiological monitoring and not as interventions including imaging using radiopharmaceuticals (11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine, and 11C-CGP12177).
Combination product: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning of cardiac function at 3 time points across the 24 hour circadian cycle

Drugs are used for as part of physiological monitoring and not as interventions, including imaging using radiopharmaceuticals (11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine, and 11C-CGP12177).

Other Names:
  • PET scanning

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, the planned outcome measure that is the most important for evaluating the effect of an intervention/treatment. Most clinical studies have one primary outcome measure, but some have more than one.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Blood Pressure (BP)
Time Frame: 5 Days

Measurements were collected up to 7 times per participant across the circadian cycle under constant conditions across 5 days. Resting BP and Exercise BP data were collected at the beginning of each of 7 wake periods in a supine position and where participants exercised at an intensity equivalent to brisk walking. Salivary melatonin was used to calculate the circadian phase marker using dim light melatonin onset (DLMO). All data were assigned a circadian phase relative to DLMO and binned into 4-hour (or 60-degree) intervals. In the statistical analysis, the weight group refers to normal or overweight, exercise condition refers to seated or exercising on the bike, and circadian phase refers to the center of the circadian bin. This is an observational study. Due to insufficient enrollment and an imbalanced group distribution, we do not have sufficient statistical power to fully interpret these data. The data are valuable as pilot data for future investigations and sample size estimation.
5 Days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Secondary Outcome Measures

In a clinical study's protocol, a planned outcome measure that is not as important as the primary outcome measure for evaluating the effect of an intervention but is still of interest. Most clinical studies have more than one secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Coronary Microvascular Blood Flux
Time Frame: 3 days

Coronary microvascular function, measured as coronary microvascular blood flux using myocardial contrast echocardiography.
3 days
Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD)
Time Frame: 5 days

FMD to measure endothelial function.
5 days
Heart Rate
Time Frame: 5 Days

Heart rate via 2-channel echocardiogram (ECG)
5 Days
Epinephrine
Time Frame: 5 days

Venous Epinephrine to estimate sympathetic output
5 days
Norepinephrine
Time Frame: 5 days

Venous Norepinephrine to estimate sympathetic output
5 days
Cortisol
Time Frame: 5 days

Saliva cortisol to estimate sympathetic output
5 days

Other Outcome Measures

Other Outcome Measures

For clinical trials, a planned measurement described in the protocol that is used to determine the effect of an intervention/treatment on participants. For observational studies, a measurement or observation that is used to describe patterns of diseases or traits, or associations with exposures, risk factors, or treatment. Types of outcome measures include primary outcome measure and secondary outcome measure.
Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Beta-adrenergic Receptor Density (Exploratory Outcome)
Time Frame: 5 days.

Radiolabeled agonist (11C-CGP12177) to measure beta-adrenergic receptors during PET Imaging.
5 days.
Norepinephrine Reuptake Transport (Exploratory Outcome)
Time Frame: 5 days.

Radiolabeled meta-hydroxyephedrine (11C-mHED) to measure norepinephrine reuptake during PET Imaging.
5 days.

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Sponsor

The organization or person who initiates the study and who has authority and control over the study.
Oregon Health and Science University

Collaborators

Collaborators

An organization other than the sponsor that provides support for a clinical study. This support may include activities related to funding, design, implementation, data analysis, or reporting.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Investigators

Investigators

A researcher involved in a clinical study. Related terms include site principal investigator, site sub-investigator, study chair, study director, and study principal investigator.
  • Principal Investigator: Steven A Shea, PhD, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
  • Principal Investigator: Jeanne M Link, PhD, OHSU Center for Radiochemistry Research

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

Study Start

The actual date on which the first participant was enrolled in a clinical study. The "anticipated" study start date is the date that the researchers think will be the study start date.
May 1, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

Primary Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention to collect final data for the primary outcome measure. Whether the clinical study ended according to the protocol or was terminated does not affect this date. For clinical studies with more than one primary outcome measure with different completion dates, this term refers to the date on which data collection is completed for all the primary outcome measures. The "anticipated" primary completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the primary completion date for the study.
September 30, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

Study Completion

The date on which the last participant in a clinical study was examined or received an intervention/treatment to collect final data for the primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, and adverse events (that is, the last participant's last visit). The "anticipated" study completion date is the date that the researchers think will be the study completion date.
June 30, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

First Submitted

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December 20, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

The date on which the study sponsor or investigator first submits a study record that is consistent with National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review criteria. The sponsor or investigator may need to revise and submit a study record one or more times before NLM's QC review criteria are met. It is the responsibility of the sponsor or investigator to ensure that the study record is consistent with the NLM QC review criteria.
December 29, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

First Posted

The date on which the study record was first available on ClinicalTrials.gov after National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review has concluded. There is typically a delay of a few days between the date the study sponsor or investigator submitted the study record and the first posted date.
January 3, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

Last Update Posted

The most recent date on which changes to a study record were made available on ClinicalTrials.gov. There may be a delay between when the changes were submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov by the study's sponsor or investigator (the last update submitted date) and the last update posted date.
November 4, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

The most recent date on which the study sponsor or investigator submitted changes to a study record that are consistent with National Library of Medicine (NLM) quality control (QC) review criteria. It is the responsibility of the sponsor or investigator to ensure that the study record is consistent with the NLM QC review criteria.
October 14, 2026

Last Verified

Last Verified

The most recent date on which the study sponsor or investigator confirmed the information about a clinical study on ClinicalTrials.gov as accurate and current. If a study with a recruitment status of recruiting; not yet recruiting; or active, not recruiting has not been confirmed within the past 2 years, the study's recruitment status is shown as unknown.
October 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

Other Study ID Numbers

Identifiers or ID numbers other than the NCT number that are assigned to a clinical study by the study's sponsor, funders, or others. These numbers may include unique identifiers from other trial registries and National Institutes of Health grant numbers.
  • IRB00017489
  • KL2TR002370 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • R01HL140577 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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