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Filter by:Sedentary behavior and protein-energy wasting (PEW) are well known risk factors of adverse outcome and low quality of life in chronic renal failure patients treated by dialysis. Treatment strategies of PEW by different types of nutritional support (as dietary counseling, oral nutritional supplements or intradialytic parenteral nutrition) have limited efficacy. Physical activity has been shown to have numerous positive impacts in pathologic conditions associated to end stage renal disease. Concomitant prescription of physical activity and nutritional support might mutually enhance the anabolic effects of these interventions and improve the rate of remission of PEW. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of a programmed, progressive endurance training performed during the dialysis session on a cycle ergometer under the supervision of a qualified trainer, on protein energy wasting and physical functioning of chronic hemodialysis patients.
This study is the first administration of GSK2849466 in humans. This will be a single centre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), and pharmacodynamics (PD) of GSK2849466, given as single and repeat oral doses up to 14 days to healthy male subjects. Part A will be a randomized placebo controlled and 4-way crossover study. It will include two cohorts of 8 subjects each. In each cohort there will be 4 study periods each approximately of 1 week including 6 days of washout. Each subject will receive a total of 3 active doses as ascending single oral dose of GSK2849466 and 1 placebo dose during the course of their participation in the study. The first ("bridging dose") dose provided to subjects in Cohort 2 will be the same as the last dose provided to subjects in Cohort 1. The single doses of GSK2849466 planned in Part A of this study are: 0.01, 0.03, 0.1, and 0.3 milligram (mg) in Cohort 1 and 0.3, 1, 3, and 10 mg in Cohort 2. In cohorts 1 and 2 all available safety, tolerability, and PK data will be reviewed prior to each dose escalation. The dosing schedule in Part A may be adjusted to expand a cohort or to add an additional cohort(s) in order to further evaluate additional doses or repeat evaluation of a dose level already studied. Part B will be a randomized placebo controlled, parallel group study. It will include three cohorts of 12 subjects each. Each subject will receive repeat doses of GSK2849466 over 14 days. The doses chosen for Part B will be based on the safety, tolerability, and PK data from Part A. Subjects in Cohort 4 (and/or an another cohort [s] as determined based on Part A PK data) will be dosed in the fasted state on Days 1 and 14 and in the fed state on Day 7 when subjects will receive a standard meal 30 minutes prior to dosing. Part B will provide sufficient safety and tolerability data to bridge to longer duration studies. The study duration, including screening and follow-up, is not expected to exceed 70 days for subjects in the study.
The overall aim of this research is to develop a non-invasive approach to evaluate the production of 3-methylhistidine (3MH)in cancer patients, as a potential means of determining which patients are at high risk for future development of cancer induced skeletal muscle atrophy. Rationale: The approach is based on the hypothesis that after an oral dose of deuterated 3-methylhistidine (D-3MH), the slope of the terminal portion of the decay curve (> 12 hours post-dosing) for the tracer/tracee (D-3MH/3MH) in the free 3MH pool is proportional to the rate constant for myofibrillar protein degradation and can be determined from spot urine samples.
20 normal-weight healthy subjects (10 males, 10 females) were in two periods given 10 of 0.5-mL capsules/day of fish oil and soybean oil for 3 weeks. In the end of each period they were given a standard breakfast and asked to report their appetite on visual analogue scales (VAS) immediately before and after the meal. The results were analyzed in accordance with the paired design under consideration of both supplement sequence and gender.
This study will assess the pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of BYM338 in patients with COPD and cachexia. The primary outcome will be a change in thigh muscle volume compared to placebo. The study will last for approximately 24 weeks.
The purpose of this study is to understand how differences in the nutritional status and concentration of hormones and cytokines associated with cachexia in HIV+ and HIV- pregnant women living in a semi-rural and rural region of northern Tanzania affect fetal growth, pregnancy outcomes and early infant health and development. The study hypothesis is that HIV+ women will have worse nutritional status and a greater degree of cachexia which will negatively impact fetal growth, pregnancy outcomes and early infancy health and development.
It is estimated that up to 30% of cancer patients die because of the effects of malnutrition, caused by a discrepancy between nutritional needs and intake (or utilization) of energy and essential nutrients. Malnutrition and its severe complication, cancer cachexia, are negative prognostic factors in neoplastic patients, inducing Decreased response and tolerance to antineoplastic treatments, decline in the functional status, reduced quality of life and reduced survival. Prevalence data on malnutrition in italian oncology patients are lacking and the available literature data on weight loss and malnutrition in oncology refer to patients in different phases of disease and therapy. Most importantly , strategies for prevention of malnutrition and cachexia in oncology are still largely disregarded and scarcely implemented. The main objective of this project is to assess the prevalence of malnutrition in patients undergoing first medical oncology visit in Italy. Secondary objective is to increase awareness of metabolic and nutritional issues among medical oncologists, thus favoring the inclusion of metabolic-nutritional screening and monitoring in medical oncology protocols. This would in turn contribute to reduce the negative consequences of malnutrition- and cachexia-related complications.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of repeated oral administration of macimorelin at different doses daily for 1 week for the treatment of cancer cachexia.
The goal of the investigators study is to investigate the role of a hormone named Activin A (ActA) in the development of the skeletal muscle atrophy caused by cancer. According to the investigators hypothesis, ActA could be released by the tumor and activate a muscle atrophy gene program. To answer this question, the investigators plan first to compare circulating levels of ActA in cancer patients with and without cachexia. In a second step, the investigators would like to assess whether ActA circulating levels are predictive for the development of cachexia and short survival.
Cancer cachexia is a complex metabolic process affecting up to 80% of patients suffering from an advanced-stage cancer. Moreover, 20 to 40% of all cancer deaths are caused directly by cachexia. Head and neck (H&N) cancer patients are nutritionally vulnerable since tumour localisation can interfere with food intake, since alcohol and tobacco abuse - two etiological risk factors of H&N cancer - are associated with nutritional deficits, and since the intensive treatment can lead to progressive weight loss. Recently, omega-3 fatty acids have gained interest for their beneficial effects in several diseases. Moreover, nutritional supplementation enriched with omega-3 FA could potentially maintain body weight in cancer patients undergoing intensive treatment. Aims In this study, the investigators want to evaluate the use of omega-3 FA supplementation as nutritional and the investigators would like to identify potential risk factors, biomarkers and objective measurement tools which can predict therapy-induced cachexia.