Creatinine Height Index in Elderly

Malnutrition in Elderly Clinical Trial

Official title:

Age- Adjusted Measurements of Creatinine Height Index for Diagnosing Malnutrition in Elderly Medical Patients at Hospital Admission

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03814057
• Other study ID #: AinShamsGer
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 1, 2015
• Est. completion date: May 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Ain Shams University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

evaluation of the efficacy of two different age adjusted calculations of CHI compared to other nutritional indicators in the elderly medical patients upon hospital admission.

Description:

Cross sectional study involving one hundred hospitalized elderly (>60 years), Anthropometric measurements, Mini- nutritional assessment, Hand Grip strength, CBC, total protein, albumin, total cholesterol, triglyceride, and 24 hour urinary creatinine excretion were measured within 24 hours of hospital admission calculation of CHI using 2 age adjusted modification was done accuracy of each measurement in detecting malnutrition was evaluated

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: May 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• medical elderly patients (>60 years)

• within 24 hours of hospital admission

Exclusion Criteria:

• sepsis

• fever

• malignancy

• liver cirrhosis

• renal impairment

• critically ill patients

• those with any hemodynamic instability were excluded from the study

• patients receiving diuretics

• patients can't stand to obtain their weight and height

• those can't collect 24 hour urine

• the patients refused to participate in the study

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Malnutrition
• Malnutrition in Elderly

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• 24 hour urine creatinine excretion
two age corrected calculations of creatinine height index were obtained

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Ain Shams University	Cairo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ain Shams University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	accuracy of creatinine height index in Elderly	evaluate the test performance of the two age adjusted calculations of creatinine height index for detecting malnutrition in elderly patients at hospital admission	within 24 hours of hospital admission