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Reducing personal exposure to air pollution has shown promise in improving key cardiovascular risk factors (blood pressure and insulin resistance) in limited studies, but durability of these effects is not known. Personal air cleaners have been shown to decrease personal exposure to PM2.5 and reduce blood pressure in small studies and may serve as a pragmatic intervention in high-risk patients in whom air pollution is a strong contributor to cardiovascular health.",[33,39],{"label":34,"type":35,"description":36,"interventionNames":37},"Active mode","ACTIVE_COMPARATOR","In home use of portable air cleaners with a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter for 4 weeks.",[38],"Device: Air cleaners with HEPA filter",{"label":40,"type":41,"description":42,"interventionNames":43},"Sham mode","SHAM_COMPARATOR","In home use of portable air cleaners without a High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filter for 4 weeks.",[44],"Device: Air cleaners without HEPA filter",[46,51],{"type":47,"name":48,"description":49,"armGroupLabels":50,"otherNames":20},"DEVICE","Air cleaners with HEPA filter","PM 2.5 exposure reduction using in home portable air cleaners fitted with HEPA filters",[34],{"type":47,"name":52,"description":53,"armGroupLabels":54,"otherNames":20},"Air cleaners without HEPA filter","Simulation of PM 2.5 exposure reduction using in home portable air cleaners without HEPA filters.",[40],[56],{"name":57,"affiliation":5,"role":58},"Charbel Abi Khalil, MD","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",[60],{"name":57,"role":61,"phone":62,"phoneExt":20,"email":63},"CONTACT","+974 4492 8484","cha2022@qatar-med.cornell.edu",[65],{"facility":66,"status":67,"city":68,"state":20,"zip":20,"country":69,"countryCode":70,"cosmosGeoPoint":71,"geoPoint":76,"contacts":77},"Hamad Medical Corporation","RECRUITING","Doha","Qatar","QA",{"type":72,"coordinates":73},"Point",[74,75],51.53096,25.28545,{"lat":75,"lon":74},[78,82],{"name":79,"role":61,"phone":80,"phoneExt":20,"email":81},"Jassim Al-Suwaidi, MD","+974 4439 5354","jalsuwaidi@hamad.qa",{"name":83,"role":58,"phone":20,"phoneExt":20,"email":20},"Charbel Abi Khalil, MD, PhD",{"type":85,"investigatorFullName":20,"investigatorTitle":20,"investigatorAffiliation":20,"oldNameTitle":20,"oldOrganization":20},"SPONSOR",[87,89],{"name":66,"class":88},"INDUSTRY",{"name":90,"class":6},"Case Western Reserve University","100508709","air-pollution-and-cardiovascular-disease-in-qatar-an-interventional-study-to-reduce-blood-pressure-100508709",false,"NCT05903950","Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease in Qatar: an Interventional Study to Reduce Blood Pressure","Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease in Qatar: an Interventional Study to Reduce Blood Pressure: the APCIQ-BP Trial","APCIQ-BP","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Non-smokers (100% abstinence from use of any smoking or vaping product during the prior year)\n* Age ≥18 and less than 60 years old\n* Living in a single residence (home, apartment) located anywhere in Qatar\n* Mild systolic hypertension: screening visit systolic BP 130 to 159 mm Hg (off treatment or taking ≤ 2 BP medications that have been stable without changes during prior 4 weeks) plus ≥ 2 more additional criteria for the metabolic syndrome:\n\n  * Waist circumference ≥102 cm if male and ≥88 cm if female\n  * Fasting triglycerides ≥150 mg\u002FdL (or taking a triglyceride-lowering medication)\n  * HDL-C ≤ 40 mg\u002FdL if male and ≤ 50 mg\u002FdL if female (or taking an HDL-raising medication),\n  * Fasting glucose ≥100 mg\u002FdL\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Pregnancy (self-reported)\n* Screening visit urine positive for cotinine (NicAlert \\>100 ng\u002FmL)\n* Living with an active smoker who smokes indoors (by self-report)\n* High risk conditions that prohibit allowing home BP to be \\>130\u002F80 mm Hg during the10-week trial including any cardiovascular disease (coronary artery disease, prior stroke, heart failure, peripheral arterial disease, aneurysm) or ≥ stage 3 kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate \\\u003C 60 ml\u002Fmin)\n* A medical condition placing the participant at risk from participation (per investigators)\n* Expected overnight travel outside their residence during the study\n* HEPA filter within the air conditioners of the residence (self-reported) or individual use of HEPA filter\n* Unable to comprehend\u002Fsign an informed consent\n* Lung disease requiring oxygen\n* Cancer receiving treatment\n* Screening visit: BP ≥160\u002F100 mm Hg or fasting blood glucose ≥126 mg\u002FdL and confirmed diabetes with follow-up HbA1c ≥6.5%. If glucose is elevated ≥126 mg\u002FdL but HbA1c\\\u003C6.5%, they could still participate.\n* Medication changes in past 4 weeks. If participants are on medications for high BP or hyperlipidemia, they will need to have had stable therapy during prior 10 weeks with no planned changes during the study\n* Left upper arm circumference \\>17 inches as this will make BP levels inaccurate with the home monitor used\n* Acute illness or infectious symptoms within the prior 4 weeks.","ALL","18 Years","60 Years",{"count":103,"type":104},100,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[107],"NA","The main objective is to determine if in-home portable air cleaners provide persistent reductions in PM2.5 exposures and improvements in systolic blood pressure and biochemical parameters over 4-weeks in patients with metabolic syndrome residing in Qatar.",[110,111],"Hypertension, Systolic","Metabolic Syndrome",[113,114,115],"hypertension","metabolic syndrome","air pollution","2026-08-18",{"date":118,"type":119},"2026-08-20","ACTUAL",{"date":121,"type":119},"2024-11-03",{"date":123,"type":104},"2026-12",{"name":5,"class":6},1]