Active clinical trials for "Metabolic Syndrome"

Visceral obesity and adipose inflammation is considered a driving force of obesity-related systemic disease, e.g. cardiometabolic disease, liver cirrhosis and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Inflammatory resolution is actively regulated by specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs), including the endogenous eicosanoid LXA4. Impairment of SPMs may underlie development of obesity-related pathology.We hypothesize that obese patients who develop obesity-related disease do so because they suffer from impaired endogenous production of pro-resolving lipids. This will result in aggravated adipose inflammation and fibrosis, which contribute to the systemic pathologies. We thus wish to investigate adipose inflammation and the pro-resolving lipid profile of obese subjects with and without obesity associated metabolic disease. We also aim to investigate whether LXA4, LXB4 and other anti-inflammatory agents (such as AICAR) can alter the phenotype of human adipose macrophages in ex vivo tissue culture. We also investigate basic pathways in inflammatory regulation and obesity related cardiometabolic disease.

The purpose of this study is to explore the pathogenesis and genetic susceptibility of obese subjects,providing a convincing argument for further treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Preventing decompensation is a key endpoint in the management of compensate cirrhosis patients. The known factors that increases the risk of decompensation include the presence of clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH) and the control of primary etiology of cirrhosis. Other factors which may influence the progression of cirrhosis included the presence of metabolic syndrome (diabetes mellitus and obesity), frailty, concomitant medications (statin, non-selective beta-blocker) were not well understood. Investigators aim to perform a pilot, observational study to study various baseline factors in relation to the clinical outcome of cirrhosis patients in a prospective follow up.

Tongji-Ezhou study (TJEZ) is a prospective cohort study launched at 2013 in EZhou city, Hubei province, with the goal of recruiting and assessing 10,000 individuals and then following them for at least 2 decades. In addition, blood samples would be collected every 3-5 years among 6000 of them to investigate the nutritional biomarkers and potential determinants of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease.

The NAFLD is the first cause of liver disease worldwide. The severe form of NAFLD, the NASH progresses to cirrhosis and is responsible of liver mortality. The diagnosis of NASH requires liver biopsy that cannot be used for the screening of the disease. The broad prevalence of the disease limits also the generalization of liver biopsy even for diagnosis. There is an urgent need for the use and the validation of liver diagnosis biomarkers for the diagnosis of NASH.

to determine the risk factors for developing obesity in children with exogenous-constitutional obesity and arterial hypertension, according to the theories of early programming of metabolism

Background Changes in metabolism and mitochondrial function appear to precede cardiac dysfunction, with much evidence supporting metabolic dysregulation as one of the earliest precursors of cardiovascular disease. We hypothesise that quantifiable metabolic inflexibility may be representative of an individual in his/her silent, but high-risk progression towards insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The platform for interdisciplinary cardiovascular-metabolic-neurovascular diseases (PICMAN) across National University Health System (NUHS) is a pilot, prospective, multi-ethnic cohort study in Singapore. Through extensive phenotyping in a preventive cardiology cohort, the central aim is to define the metabolic flexibility range in a cohort of individuals at elevated risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, to correlate metabolic flexibility to measures of cardiometabolic health, including diastolic dysfunction, coronary and cerebral atherosclerosis, body fat distribution and severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

CARFARE (CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK FACTORS REGISTRY) is a registry done in the context of a cardiovascular primary prevention program of the Cardiometabolic Unit Officia of the Cardiology Department of the Austral University Hospital. The structured and sequential evaluation include measurement of anthropometric parameters (body mass index, BMI), laboratory with metabolic profile, baseline electrocardiogram, blood pressure (BP) measurement, arterial stiffness, subclinical atherosclerosis screening in the carotid and ileo-femoral territories using echo-doppler, echocardiogram, and ergometry test.

Cardio-oncology is an emerging field. Most of the data available have been issued from either retrospective analysis, industry data or pharmacovigilance data. These data sources include a number of bias. CONFUCIUS is a single tertiary centre prospective registry including all patients who have been referred for cardio-oncology assessemnt. The objectives are to provide a comprehensive vue of cardoi-oncology, enable to detect early signals of cardiotoxicity and enhance ancillary projetcts aiming at specific populations (e.g., type of cancer) and/or drugs.

Systematic metabolic diseases are closely related to prevalence and progression of atherosclerosis. This prospective cohort consecutively enrolls patients with coronary artery disease compliacted with metabolic abnormalities such as diabtetes, prediabetes, obesity, chronic kidney disease and hyperuricemia.