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Vitamin D and Curcumin Piperine Attenuates Disease Activity and Cytokine Levels in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients

NCT05430087 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2022-06-24

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Summary

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease with a relatively high mortality and morbidity rate, especially in developing countries such as Indonesia. In Indonesia, a previous study demonstrated that almost 71% of SLE patients experience hypovitaminosis D, with serum vitamin D 25 levels less than 30 ng/ml. Several factors contribute to the low vitamin D levels among SLE patients. Less exposure to sunlight or insufficient vitamin D intake contributes to SLE patients low vitamin D levels. Some other studies also revealed that vitamin D metabolism gene polymorphisms are also associated with patients with SLE.

Vitamin D is essential for bone health and has an essential role in immune system modulation and controlling autoimmune diseases, including SLE. Another study demonstrates that curcumin supplementation in premenopausal women and dysmenorrhea improves vitamin D levels. Despite the promising properties of curcumin in improving vitamin D biological actions, our previous study reveals that the addition of curcumin in vitamin D administration do not significantly improve the disease activity or cytokine imbalance in SLE patients. The synergistic property of curcumin with vitamin D in regulating immune cells is an open opportunity for researchers to increase the response to vitamin D3 therapy.

Several studies have reported the efficacy of vitamin D or curcumin for SLE treatment. However, none mentioned the combination of curcumin added with piperine and vitamin D3. We hypothesized that adding curcumin piperine with vitamin D3 as a complementary treatment in SLE patients would improve the clinical symptoms or cytokine balance among SLE patients. Therefore, this study aims to observe the effects of adding curcumin-piperine with vitamin D3 in clinical outcomes and cytokines levels in SLE patients with hypovitaminosis D.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Observe the clinical outcome and inflammatory cytokines levels in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) after being supplemented with Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3) and Curcumin-Piperine.

All patients and physicians were blinded to group assignment and treatment allocation. All subjects received the tablets for three months. All subjects were still required to consume their routine medications during the supplementation according to the disease activity. Patients were evaluated at baseline and after the end of supplementation for clinical and laboratory parameters. Adherence to therapy was assessed by monthly pill counts of returned tablets and biweekly phone calls to the patients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Saiful Anwar Hospital

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-03-01
Primary Completion
2022-01-31
Completion
2022-01-31

Countries

  • Indonesia

Study Locations

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