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Long-term Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors May Cause Vitamin B12 Deficiency in the Institutionalized Elderly

NCT00843453 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2009-07-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study was designed to determine whether elderly residents of long term care facilitated who had been taking proton pump inhibitors (PPI) for more than 12 months were more likely to have vitamin B12 deficiency than residents not taking PPI, and whether cyanocobalamin nasal spray improved these subjects' vitamin B12 status.

Conditions

  • Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Interventions

OTHER

blood collection

blood collection

DRUG

treatment (cyanocobalamin nasal spray)

cyanocobalamin nasal spray -- 500 mcg q week for eight weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Delaware

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nancy R Rozgony, RD< LD · University of Delaware

  • Chengshun R Fang, Ph.D. · University of Delaware

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Max Age
89 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-11-30
Primary Completion
2008-01-31
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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