Your cell phone could reveal your Body's hidden clock
NCT ID NCT02249793
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether patterns in cell phone use (like calls and texts) are linked to blood pressure and metabolism over a 24-hour day. Six healthy adults aged 25-35 with Android phones participated. The goal was to better understand how daily behaviors relate to body functions, not to test a treatment.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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6 people
The number who actually took part.
- Start date
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Sep 2014
- Finished
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Dec 2017
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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Who is studied
Healthy volunteers
- Ages
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25 to 35 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Volunteers must be in good health as based on medical history, physical examination, vital signs, and laboratory tests as deemed by PI; * Volunteers are capable of giving informed consent; * 25-35 years of age; * Own a cell phone with internet access (smartphone with Android operating system only at this point) which installs the social sensing application ginger.io; * Non-smoking; * Male subjects only if feasible during recruitment; and * In case female volunteers are invited to enroll: non-pregnant, female subjects must consent to a urine pregnancy test. Exclusion Criteria: * Recent travel across time zones (within the past month); * Planned travel across time zones during the planned study activities; * Volunteers with irregular work hours, e.g. night shifts. * Use of illicit drugs; * Subjects, who have received an experimental drug, used an experimental medical device within 30 days prior to screening, or who gave a blood donation of ≥ one pint within 8 weeks prior to screening. * Subjects with any abnormal laboratory value or physical finding that according to the investigator may interfere with interpretation of the study results, be indicative of an underlying disease state, or compromise the safety of a potential subject.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT), University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States
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