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Antidepressant Therapy for Improved Blood Vessel Health After Preeclampsia

15. juli 2026 opdateret af: Anna Stanhewicz, PhD

Role of Antidepressant Therapy to Improve Vascular Function After Preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is a condition in pregnancy where a woman develops high blood pressure and other complications. Women who develop preeclampsia are 4 times more likely to have heart disease later in life. They are also more likely to have depression after pregnancy. Why they are more likely to develop these conditions is not known. It may be because their blood vessels were damaged during pregnancy. Changes in blood vessel health can predict heart disease. These changes have been recorded after pregnancy in women who had preeclampsia. These changes have also been recorded in women who have depression. In the previous phase of this award, we found that women who had preeclampsia in pregnancy had changes in blood vessel health after pregnancy. We also found that if these women were taking a medicine to treat depression, their blood vessel health was normal. This could mean that treatment for depression can also increase blood vessel health in women who had preeclampsia. In this project we will study how changes in blood vessel health are related to preeclampsia and depression in women who have had both. We will also study how medicine to treat depression can improve blood vessel health after preeclampsia. We will do this by measuring how blood vessels work in women who have had preeclampsia compared to women who did not, and in women who have depression and women who do not. This will tell us more about why risk for depression and heart disease is higher in women who have had preeclampsia. It will also help us understand if medicine for depression can reduce cardiovascular disease risk after preeclampsia.

Studieoversigt

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Anslået)

40

Fase

  • Tidlig fase 1

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiekontakt

Studiesteder

Deltagelseskriterier

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Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

  • Voksen

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ja

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

18-24 years old, 12 weeks - 5 years post pregnancy one of the following:

  1. a history of a normal pregnancy with a current diagnosis of depression,
  2. a history of a normal pregnancy without a current diagnosis of depression,
  3. a history of a preeclamptic pregnancy with a current diagnosis of depression, 4) and history of preeclamptic pregnancy without a current diagnosis of depression.

Exclusion Criteria:

history of cardiovascular, metabolic, and/or skin diseases current or history of tobacco/nicotine/ e-cigarette use history of gestational diabetes current antihypertensive or cholesterol-lowering medication currently pregnant allergy to materials used during the experiment (e.g. latex), known allergy to study drugs currently using SSRI medications

Studieplan

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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Grundvidenskab
  • Tildeling: N/A
  • Interventionel model: Enkelt gruppeopgave
  • Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Eksperimentel: Cutaneous Vascular Response to Local Heat

All women will complete the same protocol, regardless of pregnancy history and depression status.

Four intradermal microdialysis fibers will be placed in the ventral forearm for the local delivery of: (1) lactated Ringer's (control), (2) paroxetine HCl, (3) ascorbic acid, or (4) paroxetine HCl + ascorbic acid. Skin blood flow will be measured with laser-Doppler flowmetry directly over each microdialysis fiber during a standard local heating protocol to 42 degrees Celsius. Once a stable plateau in blood flow has been reached, each site is perfused with L-NAME to inhibit nitric oxide synthase. Following a post-L-NAME plateau, maximal dilation is induced by perfusing sodium nitroprusside and increasing local temperature to 43 degrees Celsius.

Localized delivery of paroxetine HCl to the cutaneous microvasculature via intradermal microdialysis.
Localized delivery of ascorbic acid to the cutaneous microvasculature via intradermal microdialysis.

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Microvascular endothelium-dependent dilation response measured by laser-Doppler flowmetry
Tidsramme: at the study visit, an average of 4 hours
Cutaneous vascular conductance responses to local heating over a microdialysis fiber receiving treatments compared to lactated Ringer's solution (control).
at the study visit, an average of 4 hours
Nitric oxide-dependent dilation response measured by laser-Doppler flowmetry
Tidsramme: at the study visit, an average of 4 hours
Difference in cutaneous vascular conductance between local heating plateau and post-L-NAME plateau within each treated microdialysis site compared to lactated Ringer's (control).
at the study visit, an average of 4 hours

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Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart (Anslået)

30. august 2026

Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)

1. marts 2027

Studieafslutning (Anslået)

1. juni 2027

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

15. juli 2026

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

15. juli 2026

Først opslået (Faktiske)

20. juli 2026

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

20. juli 2026

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

15. juli 2026

Sidst verificeret

1. juli 2026

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Lægemiddel- og udstyrsoplysninger, undersøgelsesdokumenter

Studerer et amerikansk FDA-reguleret lægemiddelprodukt

Ja

Studerer et amerikansk FDA-reguleret enhedsprodukt

Ingen

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Kliniske forsøg med Paroxetine Hydrochloride

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