Evaluating Skin Barrier Dysfunction in Infants at High Risk of Atopy

Atopic Dermatitis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Hypothesis: Skin Barrier Dysfunction With Altered Expression of Skin Barrier Proteins and Lipids Predicts Early Food Sensitizations in Infants at High Risk of Atopy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03089476
• Other study ID #: 3083
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 30, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: June 2018
• Source: National Jewish Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

It is hypothesized that food allergy is preceded by atopic dermatitis (AD), due to a disruption of skin barrier which can predispose one to food sensitization through the skin. The central hypothesis is that increased transepidermal water loss (TEWL) assessment and skin tape strip analysis (STS) of lipid and filaggrin breakdown products will be predictive markers for the development of AD. Additionally, the associated changes in TEWL and STS will further improve the identification of infants at risk of early food sensitization, compared to family history alone.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: July 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 34 Weeks to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women with physician confirmed pregnancy at a gestational age of = 34 weeks. Infants at high risk for atopy will have one or both parents affected by an allergic disease. Infants at low risk for atopy will have no parent or sibling affected by allergic disease. Biologic parent(s) of infants at high risk of atopy will also be enrolled in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy loss or delivery prior to a gestational age of = 34 weeks, a history of substance or alcohol abuse, psychiatric and developmental co-morbidities that would render a subject unable to provide informed consent or perform study-related procedures, AIDS and HIV infection, or a fetus with chromosomal or congenital abnormalities.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Atopic Dermatitis
• Dermatitis
• Dermatitis, Atopic
• Eczema
• Food Allergy
• Food Hypersensitivity

Intervention

Other:
• Evaluating atopy in infants
This study does not have an intervention. There is the evaluation of the predictive value of TEWL and STS in atopic infants at risk of developing eczema and TEWL and STS in parents of infants.
• Evaluating TEWL and STS in adults
This study does not have an intervention. There is the evaluation of the predictive value of TEWL and STS in atopic infants at risk of developing eczema and TEWL and STS in parents of infants.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	National Jewish Health	Denver	Colorado

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Jewish Health

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (14)

Blume-Peytavi U, Hauser M, Stamatas GN, Pathirana D, Garcia Bartels N. Skin care practices for newborns and infants: review of the clinical evidence for best practices. Pediatr Dermatol. 2012 Jan-Feb;29(1):1-14. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1470.2011.01594.x. Epub 2011 Oct 20. Review. — View Citation

Elias PM. Lipid abnormalities and lipid-based repair strategies in atopic dermatitis. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 Mar;1841(3):323-30. doi: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2013.10.001. Epub 2013 Oct 12. Review. — View Citation

Feingold KR, Elias PM. Role of lipids in the formation and maintenance of the cutaneous permeability barrier. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2014 Mar;1841(3):280-94. doi: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2013.11.007. Epub 2013 Nov 18. Review. — View Citation

Halken S. Prevention of allergic disease in childhood: clinical and epidemiological aspects of primary and secondary allergy prevention. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2004 Jun;15 Suppl 16:4-5, 9-32. Review. — View Citation

Horimukai K, Morita K, Narita M, Kondo M, Kitazawa H, Nozaki M, Shigematsu Y, Yoshida K, Niizeki H, Motomura K, Sago H, Takimoto T, Inoue E, Kamemura N, Kido H, Hisatsune J, Sugai M, Murota H, Katayama I, Sasaki T, Amagai M, Morita H, Matsuda A, Matsumoto K, Saito H, Ohya Y. Application of moisturizer to neonates prevents development of atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Oct;134(4):824-830.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.07.060. — View Citation

Kelleher MM, Dunn-Galvin A, Gray C, Murray DM, Kiely M, Kenny L, McLean WHI, Irvine AD, Hourihane JO. Skin barrier impairment at birth predicts food allergy at 2 years of age. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 Apr;137(4):1111-1116.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.1312. — View Citation

Kelleher MM, O'Carroll M, Gallagher A, Murray DM, Dunn Galvin A, Irvine AD, Hourihane JO. Newborn transepidermal water loss values: a reference dataset. Pediatr Dermatol. 2013 Nov-Dec;30(6):712-6. doi: 10.1111/pde.12106. Epub 2013 Mar 5. — View Citation

Kircik LH, Del Rosso JQ. Nonsteroidal treatment of atopic dermatitis in pediatric patients with a ceramide-dominant topical emulsion formulated with an optimized ratio of physiological lipids. J Clin Aesthet Dermatol. 2011 Dec;4(12):25-31. — View Citation

Kong HH, Oh J, Deming C, Conlan S, Grice EA, Beatson MA, Nomicos E, Polley EC, Komarow HD; NISC Comparative Sequence Program, Murray PR, Turner ML, Segre JA. Temporal shifts in the skin microbiome associated with disease flares and treatment in children with atopic dermatitis. Genome Res. 2012 May;22(5):850-9. doi: 10.1101/gr.131029.111. Epub 2012 Feb 6. — View Citation

Mao-Qiang M, Brown BE, Wu-Pong S, Feingold KR, Elias PM. Exogenous nonphysiologic vs physiologic lipids. Divergent mechanisms for correction of permeability barrier dysfunction. Arch Dermatol. 1995 Jul;131(7):809-16. — View Citation

Minasyan A, Babajanyan A, Campbell DE, Nanan R. Validation of a Comprehensive Early Childhood Allergy Questionnaire. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2015 Sep;26(6):522-9. doi: 10.1111/pai.12415. Epub 2015 Jul 22. — View Citation

Peters RL, Allen KJ, Dharmage SC, Tang ML, Koplin JJ, Ponsonby AL, Lowe AJ, Hill D, Gurrin LC; HealthNuts Study. Skin prick test responses and allergen-specific IgE levels as predictors of peanut, egg, and sesame allergy in infants. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2013 Oct;132(4):874-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2013.05.038. Epub 2013 Jul 24. — View Citation

Simpson EL, Chalmers JR, Hanifin JM, Thomas KS, Cork MJ, McLean WH, Brown SJ, Chen Z, Chen Y, Williams HC. Emollient enhancement of the skin barrier from birth offers effective atopic dermatitis prevention. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014 Oct;134(4):818-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2014.08.005. — View Citation

Walker L, Downe S, Gomez L. Skin care in the well term newborn: two systematic reviews. Birth. 2005 Sep;32(3):224-8. Review. — View Citation

* Note: There are 14 references in all — Click here to view all references

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Serial Transepidermal Water Loss (TEWL)	Skin Barrier Assessment measured through serial transepidermal water loss (TEWL) in grams of water/meters-squared/hour	12 months
Secondary	Skin Tape Stripping (STS) and Filaggrin(FLG) breakdown products	Risk of atopic dermatitis as evaluated through FLG breakdown products, lipid composition in the skin, and skin ape strip samples	Up to 12 months
Secondary	Skin prick testing to milk, egg, and peanut	Food Allergen Sensitization measured by positive skin prick testing to milk, egg, and peanut measured as positive or negative	12 months