The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus site has called for volunteers to help evaluate the effect of daily intake of a non-alcoholic extract from the wine industry on the change in blood pressure values in people with high blood pressure and grade 1 hypertension.
The study, which consists of five face-to-face visits during which participants’ blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels will be evaluated, is part of the Hypergrapes project led by Grandes Vinos y Viñedos and supported by Rovira i Virgili University.
The participants will undergo four blood tests to identify “possible changes in the most relevant markers associated with hypertension,” says Josep Maria del Bas, the study’s principal investigator and director of the Nutrition and Health Unit at Eurecat. “They will also be given two products which they will have to take alternately during the study and with a break between them.”
The study is to be run at Eurecat’s site in Reus opposite Sant Joan de Reus University Hospital. The email address estudis@eurecat.org and helpline 636 944 723 have been set up so that people who would like to take part can register as volunteers or ask any questions they may have.
To be eligible for the study, participants must be over 18 years of age, have blood pressure levels between 130 mmHg and 159 mmHg, and not be taking cholesterol or blood pressure medication or natural products designed to lower these parameters. They must also be non-smokers.
