Gulf War Illness Clinical Trial
Official title:
Validating Blood Biomarkers of Brain Immune and Metabolic Dysfunction in Gulf War Illness
NCT number | NCT05736146 |
Other study ID # | RI-GWI-003 |
Secondary ID | |
Status | Recruiting |
Phase | |
First received | |
Last updated | |
Start date | June 30, 2022 |
Est. completion date | September 2024 |
The investigators goals are to identify blood lipids/metabolites that correlate with cognitive decline in the presence of the APOE ε4 allele among veterans with GWI. To determine the effect of dietary, medical and biological factors that influence lipid and metabolites in blood from GW veterans. To identify blood lipid/metabolite profiles that correlate with bioenergetics deficits and glial activation in the brains of GWI. To validate blood biomarker signatures of GWI using APOE genotyping and blood lipids/metabolites that correlate with the CNS dysfunction in GWI.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 100 |
Est. completion date | September 2024 |
Est. primary completion date | September 2024 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 35 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 35 years or older. 2. For GWI cases, served in the 1990-1991 Gulf War as active duty, national guard, or reserves and meet criteria for the CDC Chronic Multisymptom Illness (CMI) GWI definition or Kansas GWI definition. 3. For controls, must be a veteran in the same age range as those veterans with GWI as defined above. 4. Ability to understand written and spoken English or availability of a legal representative who can understand written or spoken English. Participants and caregiver/informants must be able to read, write and speak the language in which psychometric tests are provided with visual and auditory acuity (corrected) sufficient to allow for accurate testing. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Diagnosed or being treated by a physician for any of the following (Steele et al, 2000) and deemed clinically significant per the discretion of the PI: 1. Cancer (except for non-melanoma skin cancers) 2. Chronic infectious disease 3. Problems resulting from postwar injuries. 4. Liver disease 5. Lupus 6. Multiple sclerosis 7. Stroke 8. Serious psychiatric condition (those associated with psychosis and/or for which the respondent had been hospitalized since 1991). 9. Dementia or any type of Parkinson's disease (PD). 2. Hospitalized in the last 5 years for alcohol or drug dependence, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 3. Female subject is either pregnant or nursing. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | Boston University | Boston | Massachusetts |
United States | Palto Alto Veterans Institute for Research | Palo Alto | California |
United States | The Roskamp Institute | Sarasota | Florida |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Roskamp Institute Inc. | Boston University, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research, United States Department of Defense |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Validate Blood Biomarkers | To validate blood biomarker signatures of GWI using APOE genotyping and blood lipids/metabolites that correlate with the CNS dysfunction in GWI. | 2022-2024 | |
Primary | Identify Blood/Lipid Profiles | To identify blood lipid/metabolite profiles that correlate with bioenergetics deficits and glial activation in the brains of GWI. | 2022-2024 | |
Primary | Effect of Dietary, Medical and Biological Factors | To determine the effect of dietary, medical and biological factors that influence lipid and metabolites in blood from GW veterans. | 2022-2024 | |
Primary | Metabolites Correlating with Cognitive Decline | To identify blood lipids/metabolites that correlate with cognitive decline in the presence of the APOE e4 allele among veterans with GWI. | 2022-2024 |
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