EMPOWER Clinical Trial: Vagal Blocking for Obesity Control
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00521079. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00521079
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Lead sponsor
- ReShape Lifesciences
- Industry
- Enrollment
- 294 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Therapy ON Device
- Therapy OFF Device
Device
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 31, 2007
- Primary completion
- Sep 30, 2009
- Completion
- Apr 30, 2018
- Last update posted
- Aug 23, 2018
2007 – 2018
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 13
- U.S. states
- 10
- U.S. cities
- 13
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HonorHealth (formerly Scottsdale Bariatric Center) | Scottsdale | Arizona | 85258 | — |
| Scripps Clinic | La Jolla | California | 92037 | — |
| University of California, Irvine Medical Center | Orange | California | 92868 | — |
| Stanford University Medical Center | Stanford | California | 94305 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic - Florida | Weston | Florida | 33331 | — |
| Johns Hopkins | Baltimore | Maryland | 21224 | — |
| Tufts New England Medical Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02111 | — |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55455 | — |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester | Minnesota | 55905 | — |
| Washington University School of Medicine | St Louis | Missouri | 63110 | — |
| Cleveland Clinic - Ohio | Cleveland | Ohio | 44195 | — |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland | Oregon | 97239-3098 | — |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond | Virginia | 23298 | — |
Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.
Non-U.S. locations
This page focuses on the U.S. directory. The official record also lists 2 non-U.S. sites.
About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00521079, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
- Where the data comes from
- Sourced from the official ClinicalTrials.gov public API. The official record is the source of truth.
- Last refresh
- Last update posted Aug 23, 2018 · Synced Jul 23, 2026
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