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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

NCT number NCT00416052
Other study ID # BE001
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received December 26, 2006
Last updated May 18, 2011
Start date March 2004
Est. completion date June 2006

Study information

Verified date May 2011
Source University Hospital Inselspital, Berne
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority Switzerland: Ethikkommission
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Accumulating evidence indicated that renal calcium stone formers often exhibit a low bone density. Therefore we want to test the hypothesis, that the mineral (calcium) metabolism is differently regulated in calcium stone formers with low as opposed to high bone density.


Description:

There is epidemiological evidence associating renal calcium stones and decreased bone mineral density (BMD). The decreased BMD in calcium stone formers is linked to hypercalciuria and both subtypes, fasting as well as absorptive hypercalciuria are associated with a diminished BMD. Higher 1,25-vitamin D plasma concentrations and lower PTH levels are encountered under free-choice diet conditions in patients diagnosed with absorptive and fasting hypercalciuria when compared to normocalciuric stone formers. Reports studying the BMD of stone formers and its link with mineral metabolism variables and urinary calcium excretion under different calcium intakes are rare.

We hypothesize now that PTH and 1,25-vitamin D change differently when calcium stone formers with high, intermediate and low BMD are challenged by a low calcium diet.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 90
Est. completion date June 2006
Est. primary completion date
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Both
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- passage of at least one calcium containing kidney stone

Exclusion Criteria:

- established cause of calcium stone formation (sarcoidosis, primary hyperparathyroidism etc.)

- creatinine clearance < 60 ml/min

- urinary tract infection

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Locations

Country Name City State
Switzerland Dept. Nephrology & Hypertension, Univ. Hospital Bern Bern

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University Hospital Inselspital, Berne

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland,