Recruitment Strategies and Preliminary Results from the IPAT Study
Jordan Zaenglein, Tristyn Hall, Margaret McGregor, Anna Tomlinson, Christopher Reagin, Stephen Mathison, Solymar Rivera‐Torres, Rong Zhang · 2025
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Lowering blood pressure hard might slow the amyloid build-up behind Alzheimer's disease, and one trial is testing that idea in older adults. Jordan Zaenglein and seven co-authors report in 2025 how the IPAT study recruits its participants and what the early returns look like.
The trial aims for 180 volunteers aged sixty to eighty-five with systolic pressure at or above 130. People with major stroke history or dementia are excluded. Brain scans then follow the volunteers for two years. Recruitment mixes hospital databases, online sources, referrals, and community outreach. From late 2022 through 2023, 718 people responded, and the team tracked how each channel performed through consent and randomization. The paper doubles as a playbook for prevention-trial recruitment.
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| CREATOR | Jordan Zaenglein, Tristyn Hall, Margaret McGregor, Anna Tomlinson, Christopher Reagin, Stephen Mathison, Solymar Rivera‐Torres, Rong Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |