Protein Supplementation in Dialysis Patients
Stopped early · Phase 2
Conditions studied: End Stage Renal Disease
In brief
The mortality rate in chronic hemodialysis (CHD) patients remains excessively high and approaches 21% per year. Among the many factors that adversely affects patient outcome is uremic malnutrition, a unique form of deranged nutritional status. It is associated with increased hospitalization and death risk in CHD patients. Several measures have been identified to prevent uremic malnutrition in CHD patients, including efforts to optimize dialysis regimen and dietary protein and energy intake. A large number of CHD patients suffer from uremic malnutrition in spite of these aggressive measures. The inevitable protein catabolic effects of the hemodialysis procedure are important factors leading to increased prevalence of uremic malnutrition. Preliminary data suggest that oral nutritional supplementation administered during the hemodialysis procedure counteracts these protein catabolic effects and leads to net protein anabolism in the acute setting. In this proposal, we hypothesize that Pro-Stat, a high nitrogen, enzyme-hydrolyzed, tryptophan-fortified, collagen protein supplement will reverse the net protein catabolism observed during hemodialysis procedure.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00367198
- Run by
- Vanderbilt University
- People needed
- 6
- Starts
- 2006-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2007-11-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2011-07-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- On hemodialysis for more than 3 months, on a thrice weekly hemodialysis program.
- Adequately dialyzed (Kt/V > 1.2).
- Age 18-75
You may not qualify if…
- Pregnant women.
- Severe unstable underlying disease besides commonly associated with end stage renal disease. Cardiac patients that are stable will be included.
- Patients hospitalized within the last month prior to the study.
- Patients with malfunctioning arterial-venous access [recirculation and/or blood flow < 500 ml/min for an arterial-venous graft (AVG) or <400 ml/min for an arterial-venous fistula (AVF)] Patients receiving steroids and/or other immunosuppressive agents.
Where it is running
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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