Conditions: Hypertension Diabetes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 36
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to see if salsalate, an Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) mediated inflammation inhibitor, or carvedilol, an α- and β-blocker, will protect against free fatty acid induced hypertension, insulin resistance, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation and oxidative stress, and autonomic dysfunction in obese normotensive subjects.

Detailed description:
During postprandial lipemia, dietary triglycerides transported by intestinal chylomicrons are hydrolyzed by lipoprotein lipase lining the vascular bed, with subsequent release of FFA for transport across the endothelium. Whether the intermittent flux of FFA has the same impact as the i.v. lipid infusion will be examined. Decreased endothelial function has been reported after a single or long-term dietary high fat load in normal subjects; however, others have found no effects on brachial artery vasoreactivity. Our preliminary studies indicate that high oral fat loads (60 g) resulted in higher FFA levels and BP changes, and reduced FMD compared to low fat load (25 g).

Arms:
arm 1: Obese, normotensive, healthy subjects will receive an intravenous (IV) administration of Intralipid 20% for 24 hours, and then one salsalate 750 mg tablet twice daily for two weeks. If the subject has no side effects, the dose will be increased to two salsalate 750 mg tablets twice daily for the remaining four weeks. The subjects will then receive another 24-hour IV administration of Intralipid 20% at the 6-week point. arm 2: Obese, normotensive, healthy subjects will receive an intravenous (IV) administration of Intralipid 20% for 24 hours, and then one carvedilol 3.125 mg tablet twice daily for two weeks. If the subject has no side effects, the dose will be increased to two carvedilol 3.125 mg tablets twice daily for the remaining four weeks. The subjects will then receive another 24-hour IV administration of Intralipid 20% at the 6-week point. arm 3: Obese, normotensive, healthy subjects will receive an intravenous (IV) administration of Intralipid 20% for 24 hours, and then one placebo tablet twice daily for two weeks. The dose will be increased to two placebo tablets twice daily for the remaining four weeks. The subjects will then receive another 24-hour IV administration of Intralipid 20% at the 6-week point.

Interventions: intervention 1: Salsalate intervention 2: Carvedilol intervention 3: Placebo intervention 4: Intralipid 20%
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Salsalate 750 mg intervention 2: Carvedilol 3.125 mg intervention 3: One tablet intervention 4: 24-hour infusion of Intralipid 20% solution at 20 mL/h (96 g/24 h)

Protocol document: