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Filter by:The main research question this protocol aims to answer is whether treatment with growth hormone will impact body composition, quality of life, and energy balance in PWS adults, and if there is a loss of effects after cessation of treatment for at least 12 months.
The purpose of this study is: 1. To assess the effect of BOTOX injection to the scalene muscles on the severity of pain from TOS. 2. To assess the effect of BOTOX injection on numbness and tingling and quality of life.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects of pitavastatin in hypercholesterolemic patients with the metabolic syndrome.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, or PCOS, is the most common endocrine disorder in women. Depending on the strictness of the diagnostic criteria used, it is thought to occur in about 6-10% of all women, many of whom do not know they have the syndrome. Women with PCOS produce abnormally high levels of male hormones (hyperandrogenism); this counteracts their ovaries' ability to make enough of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone needed for normal menstruation. PCOS is the number one cause of hormonally related infertility and also increases women's risks for diabetes, high blood pressure, hypercholesteremia, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. It is currently unclear to what extent PCOS and PCOS-associated traits (hyperandrogenisms, hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, and coronary artery disease) are the results of environmental factors or genetic predisposition. Therefore, the NIEHS Program in Clinical Research is conducting a multi-phase twin study to measure the extent of PCOS heritability and to identify environmental and genetic factors involved in the development of PCOS. The proposal described here is for Phase 2 of this study. The goals of Phase 2 are to: 1) establish more reliable concordance rates and baseline heritability estimates for PCOS in MZ and DZ twins; and 2) establish a cohort of intact MZ and DZ female twin pairs as a resource for future studies. In Phase 1, about 1500 individual female twins were identified from the Mid-Atlantic Twin Registry (MATR) based on self report of a history of irregular periods and/or cystic ovaries in the MATR General Health Screening Questionnaire. Those twins were surveyed by phone for other traits associated with PCOS. In Phase 2, the twins most likely to have PCOS based on their answers to the Phase 1 phone survey will be recontacted for further PCOS screening. This includes providing a blood sample for measuring bioavailable testosterone (BaT) levels. Women with elevated BaT levels are likely to have PCOS. The women with elevated levels will then be asked to undergo a medical evaluation for PCOS confirmation. This includes a physical exam, medical history, ultrasound, 2-hour glucose tolerance and other biochemical blood tests, and a Ferriman-Gallwey evaluation for abnormal hirsutism (another characteristic of PCOS). The women will also be tested for pregnancy and zygosity. Their female co-twins will be invited to undergo...
This is an evaluation of the effectiveness of darbepoetin alpha in treating anemia of MDS patients with an International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) score of low or intermediate 1.
The protein polymorphism of the growth hormone receptor characterized by the genomic deletion of exon 3 has been linked to the magnitude of the first-year-growth response to growth hormone (GH) in girls with Turner syndrome. Objective: to study the long-term effect of GH therapy in Turner syndrome in correlation to this GHR polymorphism in a mainly retrospective design (chart-review).
Release of troponin evaluated by the peak of troponin during the hospital phase.Because of its sensitivity and specificity as well as its widespread use in routine practice, rise in troponin levels is the main assessment criteria of this study. We plan to demonstrate a significantly altered distribution of the troponin release as evaluated by the peak of troponin for each patient during the hospitalization period (from randomization to cardiologic unit discharge), in the two arms of the trial.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the metabolic effects of anti-androgens and oral contraceptive pills (OCPs), compared with placebo, in the treatment of women with PCOS. We hypothesized that controlling elevated androgen levels with either anti-androgens or OCPs would produce improvement in metabolic markers in PCOS women and would reduce their long term metabolic risk.
To compare the therapeutic effect between autologous serum and umbilical cord serum eyedrops in the treatment of severe dry eye syndrome.
Autoinflammatory syndromes (AIS) are a group of disorders characterized by recurrent episodes of inflammation.Although for the hereditary autoinflammatory diseases the genetic mutations are known it remains largely unclear how these mutations lead to recurrent inflammatory attacks. Treatment of the inflammatory symptoms remains a challenge. With beneficial responses reported during treatment with simvastatin, etanercept or anakinra in some but not all patients. ITF2357 is an orally active histon deacetylase inhibitor with a potent anti-inflammatory effect due to inhibition of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, TNFα, IFNg, IL-6). We expect that ITF2357 is able to modify the clinical symptoms of AIS patients and induce clinical complete remission or a reduction in attack duration.