There are about 28871 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Canada. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
The present study aims at investigating the effect of ingesting 2 cereal products differing by their SDS content on the kinetics of glucose in healthy volunteers.
A randomised, double-blind, double-dummy, multi-site, phase III, single dose, 4-way cross-over pharmacodynamic study evaluating the efficacy of Bricanyl Turbuhaler M3 compared to Bricanyl Turbuhaler M2 by studying the protective effect on methacholine induced bronchoconstriction in patients with stable, mild to moderate asthma
The purpose of this trial is to confirm the safety and clinical benefit of benralizumab administration in asthma patients with mild to moderate persistent asthma in order to gain an understanding of the benefit/risk of benralizumab across the spectrum of asthma disease.
This study is investigating the effects of 8 weeks of supplementation with Glucodia™, on glucose parameters, triglycerides and body weight as compared to a placebo. Half of the subjects will be administered Glucodia™, while the other half will receive placebo.
A standard interscalene nerve block is performed with long acting local anesthetic (bupivacaine or ropivacaine in concentrations varying from 0.25% to 0.75%). The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the addition of perineural dexamethasone (4mg) to a standard ropivacaine solution (0.5%) on analgesic duration of low dose interscalene block compared to ropivacaine alone for interscalene block with systemic dexamethasone. Ropivacaine is not an intervention as a local anesthetic is pre-requisite to performing a nerve block.
Powered exoskeletons have emerged recently, promising to offer walking to individuals with severe spinal cord injury who are unable to walk. We will use the ReWalk exoskeleton to train walking in individuals with chronic, severe spinal cord injury (SCI). We will determine the characteristics of individuals who most benefit from such training, and identify the neuroplasticity induced by the training. We will further determine the feasibility of the ReWalk for home and community ambulation.
Too much body-fat has been linked to a low-grade inflammation throughout the body. This inflammation is thought to then cause different diseases, like heart disease and diabetes. A lower amount of inflammation is usually seen in people that follow a high fiber diet. A reason for this is the microbes that live in our gut. Fiber is a main food source for these microbes. This allows fiber to actually change the type of microbes that live in our gut. Also, when fiber gets fermented by these microbes, health-promoting waste products get released. We aim to determine how exactly our gut microbes contribute to the health properties of fiber. We hypothesize that fiber's health properties depend on how the gut microbes respond to the fiber. To test this, we plan to add three different fibers to the diets of healthy overweight and obese individuals for six weeks. We then will determine how the different fibers affect an individuals' health by looking at how established markers of health change from adding the fiber. Following this, we will see how an individual's gut microbes respond to the added fiber. The response will be decided by looking at changes to the microbe community, as well as their ability to ferment the fibers. By connecting health outcomes to the gut microbes' response, we can test if the gut microbes' response to the fiber determines the fiber's ability to effect health. If we can understand how our gut microbes respond to different fibers and the importance of that response. Then we could personalize diets to have a greater impact on improving health.
The overall aim of this study is to confirm the utility of corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) as a new technique to rapidly and non-invasively assess diabetic neuropathy (DN) in children. This study will be divided into two phases: Phase 1 will be a cross-sectional study of children with type 1 diabetes and normal controls, while phase 2 will be a longitudinal assessment of a subgroup of children with type 1 diabetes recruited during Phase 1.
This trial is a three-armed randomized controlled trial which will explore the utility of an implementation intention intervention on aerobic and resistance exercise in older (60+) prostate and breast cancer survivors and improving quality of life. It is expected that those in the experimental groups will report greater increases in their physical activity, resulting in greater improvements in their quality of life.
Denosumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody to RANKL was approved for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis in June 2010. It is administered subcutaneously once every 6 months and is highly effective in reducing the risk of vertebral, non-vertebral, and hip fracture risk. There are 3 main concepts underpinning the rationale for using Denosumab to treat CD. 1. CD is associated with an increased risk for osteoporosis and the biology of osteoporosis and T cell mediated inflammation, thought to be integral in CD, involve the RANKL paradigm 2. Animal models of bone loss and colitis treated with RANKL inhibitors improve both bone mass and colitis. A dinitrofluorobenzene sulfonic acid (DNBS) model of colitis in our lab showed significant improvement with Denosumab treatment compared to vehicle (saline) treatment. 3. CD is associated with an increase in mutations at the locus that encodes for RANKL The investigators are conducting an open label pilot study of single dose Denosumab 120 mg s.c. to patients with active Crohn's disease, with assessment of clinical response and remission at 12 weeks.