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Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to characterize the pathophysiological mechanisms of 21 different metabolic myopathies. The study will focus on exercise capacity and the metabolic derangement during exercise.


Clinical Trial Description

Patients will be compared to a group of matched healthy control subjects (matched for age, gender, physical activity level and BMI) for comparison of the primary and secondary outcome measures.

Methods:

Each subject will go through 3 test days.

Test day 1:

- International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). The results will be used to match the patients to control subjects.

- DEXA-scan. This is used to estimate the volume of distribution for stable isotope tracers.

- Maximal oxidative capacity test (max-test). On a cycle ergometer, subjects will exercise for approximately 15 minutes with increasing resistance until exhaustion. The peak oxidative and workload capacities will be compared to the healthy controls and will be used to find the workload that corresponds to 55-65 % of VO2max used in the following exercise tests.

- Blood samples. Samples will be drawn before exercise and at exhaustion and will be analyzed for the plasma concentrations of glucose, lactate, ammonia, creatine kinase and myoglobin.

Test day 2:

•Long exercise test #1. The purpose of this test is to measure the total fat and sugar oxidation rates during exercise by using stable isotope tracers.

Subjects arrive at the laboratory after 3-9 hours of fasting. One IV-catheter is inserted in the cubital vein in one arm and another in a peripheral vein in the other hand. The stable isotope tracers will be given in the cubital vein as a constant infusion of solutions of:

- [U-13C]-palmitate (0.0026 mg x kg-1 x min-1, after a priming bolus of 0.085 mg x kg-1 NaH13CO3)

- [1,1,2,3,3-2H5]-glycerol (0.0049 mg x kg-1 x min-1 )

- [6.6-2H2]-glucose (0.0728 mg x kg-1 x min-1 ) For two hours the subjects rests while receiving the infusions until the tracers have distributed in the body and reached a steady state. After the rest, the subjects exercise on the cycle-ergometer until exhaustion or for a maximum of 1 hour at an intensity that corresponds to 55-65% of VO2max.

The heart rate is continuously measured during exercise, and every other minute the subject evaluates his/her degree of exertion (Rate of Perceived Exertion, RPE) on a Borg scale.

•Blood and breath samples From 20 minutes before exercise and every ten minutes until the end of exercise, blood samples are drawn and samples of the expired breath are collected.The breath is analysed for 13CO2 -enrichment. The blood is analysed for the plasma concentrations of glucose, lactate, ammonia, creatine kinase and myoglobin.

Test day 3:

•Long exercise test #2. The purpose of this test is to investigate exercise capacity and performance measured as HR, VO2 and RPE during prolonged exercise. To mimic the conditions for the working muscles in healthy persons who have an intact metabolism, the patients are given an infusion of a 10% glucose solution to maintain the blood sugar while exercising.

Subjects arrive at the laboratory after 3-9 hours fasting. After 2 hours of rest, the subjects exercise on the cycle-ergometer until exhaustion or for a maximum of 1 hour at an intensity that corresponds to 60-65% of VO2max, like they did on test day 2. This time the subjects are not given stable isotope tracers. 10 minutes before exercising, the subjects are given a bolus of glucose solution 0.2 g/kg in a cubital vein catheter and a constant infusion of 10% glucose solution is started (100ml/h). The infusion continues throughout the exercise period.

Assessments of heart rate, Rate of Perceived Exertion and blood sampling follow the same protocol as on test day 1, except no breath samples are taken and no analyses of stable isotopes are made, since the tracers are not used on test day 3.

- Blood samples. From 20 minutes before exercise and every ten minutes until the end of exercise, blood samples are drawn. The blood is analysed for the plasma concentrations of glucose, lactate, ammonia, creatine kinase and myoglobin.

- Muscle Biopsy At the end of test day 1 the investigators will perform a voluntary muscle biopsy.

Statistical Methods:

The investigators will use a paired t-test, two-tailed testing (or the corresponding non-parametric test, if the assumption of normality is not met). A p-value of < 0.05 will be considered significant. Results will be reported with Confidence Intervals of the difference in means. SigmaPlot version 11.0 (or a similar statistical program) will be used for statistical analysis.

No interim analyses will be made during the 4 days trial period. In the case, that a patient withdraws/is withdrawn, the obtained data from the completed tests will be included in the analyses. Raw data that is clearly and indisputably a result of an error in measurement will not be included (evaluated by the investigator). Missing or lost data will if possible be reassessed. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms

  • Beta Enolase Deficiency
  • Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors
  • Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase 2 Deficiency
  • Carnitine Transporter Deficiency
  • Glycogen Storage Disease
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type II
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type III
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type IV
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type V
  • Glycogen Storage Disease Type VII
  • Glycogen Synthase Deficiency
  • Glycogenin-1 Deficiency (Glycogen Storage Disease Type XV)
  • Lactate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
  • Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
  • Long-Chain 3-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
  • Medium-chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
  • Metabolic Diseases
  • Metabolism, Inborn Errors
  • Multiple Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
  • Muscle Phosphofructokinase Deficiency
  • Neutral Lipid Storage Disease
  • Phosphoglucomutase 1 Deficiency
  • Phosphoglycerate Kinase Deficiency
  • Phosphoglycerate Mutase Deficiency
  • Phosphorylase Kinase Deficiency
  • VLCAD Deficiency

NCT number NCT02635269
Study type Interventional
Source Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Contact
Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 2016
Completion date December 2020

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