Metabolic and Psychological Changes Associated With Menopause Among Women With HIV
Completed
Conditions studied: HIV Infections, Menopause
In brief
This study will investigate the prevalence and extent of both metabolic and psychosocial changes associated with the menopause transition over 1 year among women with HIV compared to women without HIV of similar age, weight, menstrual status, and ethnic background. It is hypothesized that HIV positive women will demonstrate increased abdominal fat, abnormal cholesterol and blood sugar levels, reduced bone density, and greater psychosocial challenges than HIV negative women during the menopause transition.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01142817
- Run by
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- People needed
- 66
- Starts
- 2010-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-08-07
Who can join
Age: 45 and older, up to 52. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Females age 45 -52.
- Females in the perimenopausal transition characterized by the presence of abnormal menstrual function, defined as less than 3 periods in the past 3 months, 1 cycle >60 days in length in the prior 6 months, or irregular menses in 2 or more cycles within the past 6 months. Women who have been amenorrheic for >12 months will not be eligible. 3. Women with HIV must have previously documented HIV and be receiving a stable treatment regimen for > 3 months.
You may not qualify if…
- Use of estrogen, combination hormone replacement therapy, oral contraceptive pills/patches, Depo Provera, glucocorticoids, testosterone, growth hormone or other anabolic steroids within the past 6 months.
- Diabetes and current use of insulin, or medications known to affect glucose or insulin levels.
- Positive pregnancy test or recently pregnant within the past year or lactating.
- Presence of active cancers.
- Current use of bisphosphonates, or a diagnosis of Paget's disease or other illnesses known to affect bone (Use of calcium and Vitamin D will be permitted).
- Opportunistic infection within 3 months of study participation (HIV positive subjects).
Where it is running
- Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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