Vanderbilt Childhood Obesity Registry

Completed

Conditions studied: Childhood Onset Obesity, Pediatric Obesity, Childhood Obesity

In brief

In order to better understand early onset obesity and to identify patients in interested in future research studies, including clinical trials, we aim to develop a registry for patients with early onset obesity.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02957916

Run by

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

People needed

3000

Starts

2012-11-01

Expected to finish

2025-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-02-20

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• BMI >97th percentile for age and gender before 6 years old
• Able to give written, informed consent/assent

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome
• Use of exogenous steroids or other medications known to cause abnormal weight gain
• Cushing's syndrome, untreated growth hormone deficiency or untreated hypothyroidism as an etiology for the obesity
• Hypothalamic obesity (obesity due to a brain tumor, head trauma or other brain lesion)
• Currently pregnant

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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