Nutritional Supplement Clinical Trial
Official title:
Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 as a Nutritional Monitoring Factor in Patients With Chronic Intestinal Failure
Nutrition support is critical to a vast number of patients who are hospitalized annually because of critical illnesses or surgery. It is also necessary for patients with chronic intestinal failure (CIF), who often require parenteral nutrition over periods of weeks or months. While scoring systems that assess nutritional risks in patients exist, there are no guidelines for continuous nutritional monitoring during supplementation and parenteral feeding. Previous studies have hinted that insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) may serve as a biomarker for nutritional support efficiency; however, such studies were not statistically definitive. Therefore, the investigators aimed to assess IGF-1 as a biomarker for both diagnosing nutritional risk and malnutrition and for monitoring the efficiency of nutritional support, particularly compared to other biomarkers such as BMI as well as albumin, prealbumin, transferrin, and retinol-binding protein.
Chronic intestinal failure (CIF) is one of the rarest of organ failures all over the world,
mainly caused by severe gastrointestinal or systemic benign diseases such as intestinal
fistula, short bowel, and mechanical obstruction. Moreover, patients with end-stage
intra-abdominal or pelvic cancer can also develop into CIF. CIF is defined as gut function
that is below the minimum necessary for the absorption of macronutrients and/or water and
electrolytes; in such cases, nutrition support, especially for parenteral nutrition, is
indispensable to maintain health and recovery for CIF patients.
Nutrition support has successfully saved the lives of thousands of patients with CIF, as well
as those who have critical illnesses or underwent surgery. According to the guidelines,
patients with CIF require parenteral nutrition over periods of weeks or months and the
efficiency of nutrition support will influence the prognoses directly . The exact nutritional
assessment and close nutritional monitoring are key points to optimize nutritional therapy.
Firstly, the recommended scoring systems such as the Nutritional Risk Screening 2002
(NRS-2002) score or the 'nutrition risk in the critically ill' (NUTRIC) score can identify
patients who are at nutritional risk and who would benefit from nutritional support.
Secondly, nutritional support regimens should be individualized and adjusted over time based
on continuous monitoring; however, there are no guidelines regarding such nutritional
monitoring. The NRS-2002 and NUTRIC scores are recommended as initial nutritional assessment
indices, but are inappropriate for continuous evaluation. Moreover, validated biomarkers that
can be used for monitoring short-term nutritional status changes were still unclear.
Nowadays, common serum protein markers such like albumin, prealbumin, transferrin, and
retinol-binding protein (RBP) are used to monitor the efficiency of nutritional support in
clinical practice [5, 8]. However, all these biomarkers failed to reflect changes of
nutritional status with sufficient sensitivity in CIF patients.
Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is an IGF family member that consists of 70 amino acid
residues. IGF-I was first reported as a nutritional marker in 1973 because its serum
concentrations are reduced during malnutrition; its serum levels also proved to be affected
by protein or/and energy deficiency. Several previous studies reported that IGF-1 is a more
sensitive and specific indicator of nutritional status than prealbumin, transferrin, or RBP
because of its shorter serum half-life and more accurate response to nutritional intake;
however, these studies had small cohorts.
In present study, the investigators compared IGF-1 to traditional serum biomarkers in terms
of diagnosing nutritional risk and malnutrition, as well as in monitoring the efficiency of
nutrition support in CIF patients.
the investigators conducted a retrospective study of patients treated at a single clinical
nutrition center of a tertiary referral hospital in China to investigate whether the
measurement of IGF-1 is useful for monitoring the efficiency of nutritional support and to
explore the relationship between IGF-1 and lean body mass in CIF patients. The influence of
IGF-1 was also explored in this study. The data used were accumulated at the center between
September 2013 and January 2017. All adult CIF patients (age ≥18 years) receiving nutrition
support were included. The exclusion criteria were hepatic insufficiency (alanine
transaminase/aspartate transaminase ratio 200% above normal range or bilirubin >3 mg/dL),
renal insufficiency (serum creatinine [Scr] >1.5 mg/dL), acute or life-threatening diseases
(e.g., shock, collapse, stroke, coma of unknown etiology, or recent cardiac infarction), and
pregnant or breast-feeding women. The study was approved by the ethics committee of Jinling
Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University.
Malnutrition was defined as weight loss >10% within 6 months, a body mass index (BMI) <18.5,
a subjective global assessment (SGA) score of stage C, or albumin level <30 g/L. Serum IGF-1,
albumin, pre-albumin, transferrin, RBP, creatinine, and hemoglobin were measured weekly in
patients receiving nutrition support after hospital admission. The resting energy
expenditure, predicted weekly by indirect calorimetry (Quark PFT ERGO , COSMED Srl - Italy),
was used to guide energy delivery. The target dose of protein intake was 1.2 g/kg/day, which
was adjusted according to the level of serum albumin. Patients were also subjected to strict
fluid intake management. The nutritional support schemes were recorded daily, and the body
composition was also measured weekly to estimate nutrition status (Inbody S10, Biospace).
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