There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
Compare two methods of managing the lack of CVC blood return : opacification using contrast media injection or radio-clinical method with a simple chest X-ray followed by a rapid infusion of physiological serum
Cystic fibrosis (CF)-related diabetes (CFRD) is the most important emerging complication after pulmonary complications. This specific form of diabetes is associated with an increased morbidity and mortality. CFRD prevalence at the age of 10 is 10% and reaches 40 to 50% in adulthood, while a similar percentage is afflicted with milder dysglycemia also called pre-diabetes abnormalities. In order to identify patients at risk and to implement early therapeutic measures, an annual CFRD screening test is recommended for CF patients after 10 years of age. The standard 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is the recommended screening test. However, this test is perceived by both patients and CF care teams as unpleasant while adding a significant burden and workload, resulting in screening rates lower than 50% in most centers. An ideal alternative test should be simpler, less invasive, more sensitive than an OGTT to establish risks for lung function and/or nutritional deterioration, and predict future CFRD risk. To date, compared to the OGTT, no alternative screening method has demonstrated its effectiveness. However, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is emerging as a possible alternative method. In patients living with CF, CGM is easy to use and can identify early dysglycemia, which in turn, can predict increased risk of accelerated decline of pulmonary function and/or weight, higher risk of pseudomonas colonization, and future risk of CFRD. However, these observations are based on studies of small sample size with very limited prospective data. Furthermore, many of the multiple CGM metrics that have been standardized are based on the risk of complications associated with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. Thus, there is a need for prospective studies to identify the CGM metrics and the cut-off level that is relevant as a predictor of clinical deterioration and/or CFRD risk in CF. The identification of such CF-specific criteria would provide important information to target at-risk patients.
Regular physical activity at a mild to moderate intensity can control inflammation in general and intestinal inflammation in particular during IBD. The effectiveness of a physical activity programme has been evaluated during IBD, but the data are limited to a few studies. Overall, PA improves quality of life but also improves control of disease symptoms and fatigue . The aim of the present work is to evaluate the impact of a physical activity programme on quality of life in patients with IBD. This programme will also evaluate the impact of physical activity on 1) anxiety-depression, 2) fatigue (a frequent and difficult to manage symptom in IBD), 3) IBD activity, 4) smoking cessation.
The main purpose of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy of PTC923 in reducing blood phenylalanine (Phe) levels in participants with phenylketonuria as measured by mean change in blood Phe levels from baseline to Weeks 5 and 6 (that is, the average of each respective treatment dose 2-week period of double-blind treatment).
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection remains an important public health with more than 240 million people chronically infected despite the existence of an effective vaccine. Cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are major complications of CHB infection and are responsible for more than 600,000 deaths each year. These complications are strongly related to the function of the immune system. Indeed, the persistence of HBV and the progression of liver disease are mainly due to the development of an ineffective immune response to HBV. Therefore, the clinical outcome depends on the complex interaction between HBV replication and adaptive immune responses. The ultimate goal of antiviral treatments is the elimination of HBsAgHBs and the appearance of anti-HBs antibodies without detectable PCR replication. Current treatments are effective at lowering viral DNA levels, but they are not able to permanently eliminate chronic HBV infection, due to the persistence of cDNA in the nucleus of infected hepatocytes. This therapeutic goal is rarely achieved and new therapeutic approaches are needed. In this sense, Immunotherapy represents a very promising new therapeutic approach that could lead to the cure of chronic HBV infection. Indeed, HBV infection is characterized by a progressive depletion of T lymphocytes which results in a progressive loss of function, associated with a sustained positive regulation of inhibitory control molecules. Thus, the objective of this study is to define the immune signature and the main control pathways associated with T-cell depletion in patients chronically infected with HBV, by analyzing immune cells isolated from these patients at phenotypic , transcriptional and functional levels
In recent decades, low-to-null caloric, non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS) have been increasingly used, replacing and offering an alternative to food and beverages sweetened by high-energy, added sugars. Indeed, by providing consumers with products that have a sweet taste with low energy content, NNS appear to be the magic bullet to enhance weight loss and reduce cardio-metabolic diseases. However, a recent meta-analysis of randomized trials does not show any benefit of NNS consumption on body weight loss. Moreover, epidemiological, descriptive and experimental studies have recently reported that NNS consumption is paradoxically associated with weight gain, glucose intolerance and increased risk of type 2 diabetes and/or cardiovascular events. Among the approved NNS, sucralose and AceK, both high intensity (respectively ~500-600 and 200 times sweeter than sugar) are the most widely used in foods and drinks, accounting more than 62 % of the global artificial sweetener market. Recent experimental data show an effect of sucralose and AceK (and other NNS) consumption on vascular reactivity in response to a physiological stress (hyperglycemic load) in rats. Since sweet taste receptors (T1R) have been recently found in the endothelium, investigators hypothesize that NNS, and especially sucralose and AceK, a potent T1R agonist, impairs micro- and macrovascular reactivity in humans, which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been explored.
Prospective, monocentric, pathophysiological study, comparing 3 parallel groups: healthy controls; patients with diabetes and without DFU; patients with diabetes and with DFU. To address secondary objectives, samples from a fourth group will be collected.
Depression is a disabling condition in terms of psychosocial alteration and also in terms of physical comorbidities. Depression doubles the risk of myocardial infarction compared with the general population, and this cardiovascular comorbidity leads to an increase in mortality in patients suffering from depression, even exceeding suicide-related mortality. It is therefore important to better understand the mechanisms linking depression and cardiovascular disease. Among the hypotheses that may account for the increased cardiovascular risk in patients with depression, lipid abnormalities are likely to play a crucial role. Thus, qualitative and functional abnormalities in HDL lipoproteins are an important line of research, insofar as these lipid abnormalities have been recognized as important atherogenic abnormalities in populations at high cardiovascular risk, which is the case of patients with depression. In this clinical, epidemiological and scientific context, a collaborative study undertaken by both the Department of Psychiatry of the Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital of and the INSERM LNC-UMR 1231 (PADYS) Laboratory of the UNIVERSITY OF BOURGOGNE FRANCHE-COMTE is an original translational research project, and the first study to perform a lipidomic analysis of HDL, coupled with a functional analysis of these lipoproteins in depression.
Colon cancer is a real public health problem with more than 46,000 new cases diagnosed per year in France and about 650 cases in Burgundy. Muscle deconditioning (MD), which is characterized by a loss of muscle mass and function, is a frequent consequence in cancer patients and conditions the prognosis. Therefore, it is essential to understand its complex etiology in oncology in order to address the real need for therapeutic countermeasures in clinical practice. DM is a multifactorial process that is exacerbated by therapies. It induces neurogenic and muscular alterations that can profoundly affect patients' quality of life. Currently, analyses of this phenomenon in oncology have been limited essentially to a global evaluation of physical performance, neglecting the muscular and nervous nature of the adaptations responsible for it. Most studies analyzing the therapeutic effects of physical activity (PA) have shown numerous physiological and psychological benefits of aerobic exercise. However, this form of PA is still not very effective in preserving muscle mass. Only muscle strengthening can have an anabolic effect by accelerating the rate of protein synthesis.
End stage renal disease is a severe pathology in which some toxic waste and an excessive amount of water can accumulate in the human body with life threatening consequences. Maintenance hemodialysis is one of the possible treatment for this disease. Hemodialysis filter the blood through a membrane according to a dialysis bath and so can be able to purify the blood of the toxic waste. Otherwise, since the 1980s, the investigator know that patient in maintenance hemodialysis can have some deficiency in water soluble vitamins and trace elements. Mechanisms of the deficiency are multiple (a decreased of food intake, a diminution of the appetite, digestive malabsorption du to medics and comorbidities and loss in hemodialysis). Impact of this deficiency have an important impact on vital prognosis for these patients. These nutrients are essential for AND synthesis, mechanism of inflammation, cells membranes synthesis, etc. DOPPs study in 2004 have shown a decreased of 16% in the mortality within 4 years with supplemented patients. Also, since this study, international recommendations were wrote in 2009, then in 2020, in order to supplement in vitamins and trace elements patients in maintenance conventional hemodialysis. Despite these recommendations, some supplementary efforts are necessary, especially since online hemodiafiltration, a new process, is widely available and used in particular in Europe. This process combines 2 phenomena, diffusion and convection, through high-flux membranes. This process can remove a large quantity of molecule present in blood and especially the middle-molecule. In return, a more important quantity of water soluble vitamins and oligo-elements could be removed by this technique. Also, the investigator would like to measure this loss of vitamins and trace-elements in patients with maintenance online post-dilution hemodiafiltration process with dialysate sample and blood concentrations measured (usual patient monitoring) during the session.