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Validation of BIVA for Nutritional Assessment in Cirrhotic Patients

NCT01872793 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2016-10-10

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Summary

Despite the importance of nutritional status in patient's outcome, there is no gold standard for nutritional assessment. Traditional techniques used in healthy subjects to assess nutritional status cannot be used in cirrhotic patients due especially to ascites and peripheral edema, and altered rates of biochemical markers due to liver failure.

Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis has emerged as a useful method to assess body composition and nutritional status especially in patients at the extremes of body weight (fluid overload, excess of adipose tissue, etc.).

With previous results from our research group, BIVA showed to be useful for evaluating cirrhotic patients.

The aim of this study is to validate our previous results and validate BIVA for nutritional assessment in patients with liver cirrhosis

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aldo Torre, MD, MSc · Instituto Nacional de Nutrición y Ciencias Médicas "Salvador Zubirán"

  • Astrid Ruiz-Margain, BSc, MSc · Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran

  • Ricardo Macías-Rodriguez, MD, MSc · Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • Mexico

Study Locations

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