Study Impact of Nutritional Supplementary Treatment of Undernourished Stroke Patient on Functional Outcome Measures

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Conditions studied: Stroke

In brief

Undernutrition after stroke is frequent and is due to cognitive impairment, visuospatial perceptive deficits, hemiparesis, depression and dysphagia. The impact of intensive nutritional supplementation on functional outcome measures in undernourished stroke patient has not been studied.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00332800

Run by

Burke Rehabilitation Hospital

People needed

100

Starts

2003-10-01

Expected to finish

2005-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2006-06-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 95. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke documented clinically and by neuroimaging.
• Admission to the Stroke Rehabilitation Service of the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital within 4 weeks of the acute neurological insult.
• Informed consent, from patient or other responsible person according to Burke IRB standards.
• Stable medical condition, including cardiac status.
• Patient able to take diet and medication either orally or via the PEG tube.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with prior documented history of alcohol abuse, renal and liver diseases, and malabsorption.
• Patients medically unstable.
• Patient's terminal ill (e.g., patients with stroke as a complication of a terminal cancer).
• Patients participating in any other structured therapeutic trial in the acute care hospital or at Burke.

Where it is running

• Burke Rehabilitation Hospital — White Plains, New York, United States

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