The QUALITY Vets Project: Muscle Quality and Kidney Disease

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: Chronic Kidney Disease, Sarcopenia

In brief

Currently there is no standard way to detect age-related skeletal muscle loss in patients with chronic kidney disease. Investigators are working on finding rapid and inexpensive ways to measure muscle size and fat within the muscle.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03160326

Run by

Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center

People needed

75

Starts

2016-09-01

Expected to finish

2020-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-11-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 84. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Ambulatory patients (with or without a gait aid)
• 18-84.9 years of age with CKD stage 3 or 4
• Receiving care at the DC or SF VA Medical Center Renal Service
• Able to speak and read English
• Orientation to person, place, and time

You may not qualify if…

• Acute renal failure
• Pregnancy
• Any uncontrolled cardiovascular or musculoskeletal disease that, in the opinion of the principal investigator, could make participation unsafe
• Body size exceeds the dimensional limits of the DXA scanner

Where it is running

• San Francisco VA Medical Center — San Francisco, California, United States (enrolling)
• Washington DC VA Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States (enrolling)

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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