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Effect of Therapeutic Phlebotomies on the Triglycerides Concentration in Patients With Hypertriglyceridemia and Hyperferritinemia

NCT02526121 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2016-08-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of iron depletion with phlebotomies on blood triglyceride concentration, in subjects with hypertriglyceridemia and iron overload, compared with a dietary intervention alone.

All subjects in this study will follow dietary and lifestyle counseling in a period of 3 months.

A randomized group will receive phlebotomies every 3 weeks in this period.

Conditions

  • Hyperferritinemia
  • Hypertriglyceridemia

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Phlebotomy

Volume of 400 mL every 3 weeks, 3 times.

BEHAVIORAL

Dietary and lifestyle counseling.

Dietary and lifestyle counseling.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto Aragones de Ciencias de la Salud

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Fernando Civeira, MD, PhD · Unidad de Lípidos/ Laboratorio de Investigación Molecular; Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet; Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (Zaragoza, Spain)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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