Wearable tech puts hormone health to the test
NCT ID NCT07727356
First seen Jul 27, 2026 · Last updated Jul 28, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether wearable devices can measure how the body responds to everyday challenges like changes in salt intake, meals, fasting, and exercise in adults with endocrine or metabolic disorders. Participants wear home monitoring devices and follow different diet and activity phases. The goal is to see if these tools could one day help diagnose and manage hormone-related conditions more easily.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Sequential Dietary Sodium Modulation (behavioral intervention including low- and high-sodium diet phases, meal and fasting challenges, and exercise tasks)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that wearable devices and home monitoring can help diagnose and manage endocrine and metabolic disorders more conveniently.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early observational study without a comparison group, so it cannot prove cause and effect. The wearable devices may not be accurate enough for clinical use.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2026
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2036
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- 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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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: Diagnosis or suspected diagnosis of at least one endocrine or metabolic disorder, including: * Overweight or obesity, defined as body mass index of 25 kg/m² or higher * Essential hypertension * Diabetes mellitus, including type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, maturity-onset diabetes of the young, or unclassified diabetes * Hypoglycemia * Endogenous hypercortisolism * Primary aldosteronism * Endogenous or exogenous adrenal insufficiency * Congenital adrenal hyperplasia * Polycystic ovary syndrome * Adrenocortical tumor or adrenal incidentaloma * Functional or non-functional pituitary tumor * Pituitary insufficiency * Polyuria-polydipsia syndrome * Hyponatremia * Functional or non-functional neuroendocrine tumor * Osteoporosis * Lipid disorder * Thyroid disorder * Hypoparathyroidism or hyperparathyroidism * Inborn error of metabolism * People undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy Exclusion Criteria: * Known or suspected severe skin disorder or allergy that may interfere with wearable sensor placement, such as extensive eczema, psoriasis, chronic ulcers, or severe tape intolerance * Known impaired wound healing or strong keloid tendency that would make repeated skin application or microneedle use unsuitable * Pregnancy or lactation, for participation in home monitoring or dynamic hormone sampling * Known or suspected bleeding disorder, such as von Willebrand disease * Current treatment with anticoagulant or antiplatelet therapy at a dose that increases bleeding risk * Severe acute or chronic medical condition that, in the investigator's opinion, would interfere with study procedures or compromise participant safety, such as decompensated heart failure, unstable angina, or acute systemic infection * Current lithium treatment, because the intervention may alter lithium levels * Recent travel across more than 4 time zones within the past 14 days, if study endpoints rely on circadian hormone profiles * Ongoing shift work, if study endpoints rely on circadian hormone profiles * Inability to give informed consent * Inability to comply with study procedures
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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University Hospital Zürich
Zurich, 8091, Switzerland
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