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Long Term Diabetes Improvement After Cancer Gastrectomy and Colectomy

NCT01518023 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 240

Last updated 2012-01-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

There is evidence that gastrointestinal operations for non weight-losing purposes are beneficial for diabetes mellitus. Aiming to analyze such hypothesis, patients submitted to gastric bypass for morbid obesity, gastrectomy for gastric cancer and colectomy for colo-rectal cancer will be compared. The end point will be changes in fasting blood glucose and hemoglobin A1c concentration.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Interview, questionnaire, updated biochemical tests

Patients will be interviewed and questioned about nutritional status, diet, drugs and diagnosis/clinical course of diabetes. Routine biochemical tests will be searched and if necessary updated.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joel Faintuch, MD, PhD · Hospital das Clinicas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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