Lung Function Tests in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa Clinical Trial

Official title:

Lung Function Tests in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00942929
• Other study ID #: 48/08
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 20, 2009
• Last updated: July 20, 2009
• Start date: September 2008
• Est. completion date: December 2009

Study information

• Verified date: July 2009
• Source: Bnai Zion Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Israel: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators hypothesize that lung function would be adversely affected at the hypocaloric stage of adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa.

Description:

Anorexia Nervosa in adolescents holds adverse effects on different body systems as the cardiovascular, central nervous, endocrine, bone and gastrointestinal systems. There is paucity of information regarding the adverse effects of this tenacious illness on the lungs of adolescents at the hypocaloric stage of their illness. Based on previous clinical observations we postulate that lung function tests would be adversely effected by the hypocaloric nutrition of adolescents with anorexia nervosa and that they may improve during short refeeding in an inpatient setting of a general pediatric ward. To examine our hypothesis we would check lung function by various parameters of adolescents suffering from AN and a control group of adolescents.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: December 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 12 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescents with anorexia nervosa

• Ability to preform lung function tests

• Parents signing informed concent and adolescents signing informed ascent

Exclusion Criteria:

• A history of a lung disease

• Intercurrent lung illness

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anorexia
• Anorexia Nervosa

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Bnai Zion Medical Centre, Department of Pediatrics	Haifa

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bnai Zion Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Lung function tests at admission of adolescents with anorexia nervosa		On addmission to the pediatric ward	No
Secondary	Lung function tests at discharge of adolescents with anorexia nervosa		On discharge from the pediatric ward	No