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A Pilot Study to Determine Nutrition Status in Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients

Study Purpose

The study is designed to evaluate how the composition of a participant's body, diagnosed with a brain tumor (glioblastoma multiforme) as determined by bioelectrical impedance analysis can predict the progression and outcomes of disease.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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 Yes
Study Type

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 Interventional
Eligible Ages 19 Years and Over
Gender All
More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • - Subjects must be at least 19 years of age.
  • - Subjects must have a histologically confirmed supratentorial grade IV astrocytoma (glioblastoma multiforme).
  • - Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • - Subjects with implanted pacemakers or defibrillators.
  • - Subjects who are pregnant.
  • - Subjects with edema.
  • - Subjects with an amputated extremity.

Trial Details

Trial ID:

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 NCT01770626
Phase

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 Early Phase 1
Lead Sponsor

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 University of Alabama at Birmingham
Principal Investigator

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 Louis B Nabors, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham
Agency Class

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 Other
Overall Status Completed
Countries United States
Conditions

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 Brain Cancer
Additional Details

The purpose of this study is to monitor the nutritional status of (Glioblastoma Multiforme)GBM patients for one year. We will look at the relationships between phase angle determined by Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA), nutrition assessment by Subjective Global Assessment and serum albumin, the type of microbes present in the gut, the participant's DNA information, and tumor progression. We will also compare estimated caloric needs determined by BIA and Harris Benedict Equation to Resting Energy Expenditure from Indirect Calorimetry of the people with GBM and the people without.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

No Intervention: Single arm

evaluate the composition of a participant's body, diagnosed with a brain tumor (glioblastoma multiforme) as determined by bioelectrical impedance analysis

Interventions

Other: - Nutrition

Anthropometrics, Nutrition assessment, Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis, Blood sample, Resting Energy Expenditure. All will be done 2-3 weeks after initial study visit and will continue every 3 months study visit except the Resting Energy Expenditure which will be performed at only one visit (2-3 weeks after initial visit).

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University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

Status

Address

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, 35294

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