Active clinical trials for "Endocrine System Diseases"

The goal of this clinical research study is to test an investigational type of packaging for diabetes drugs called "unit-dose packaging." Researchers want to learn if unit-dose packaging can help patients with Type II diabetes to take their drugs on the proper schedule.

This project is designed to answer the question: Is there an acute IGFBP-3 response in normal children? Our specific hypothesis states that under the influence of growth hormone secretagogues, intact IGFBP-3 molecule will undergo proteolysis and liberate IGFBP-3 fragments, along with other components of the ternary complex. This proteolysis will result in measurable rise in IGFBP-3, which will indicate the subject's growth hormone status. Short children with growth hormone deficiency will not show an IGFBP-3 response.

This study is conducted in the United States of America (USA). The aim of the study is to assess the minimal important difference (MID) of the TRIM-AGHD.

Stress reactions in emergency physicians will be measures using cortol-awakening-reaction, heart-rate-variability and standardised stress questionnaires

Fluorescence is one of the most commonly used research and detection techniques in the field of biomedical science. The characteristics of fluorescent probe directly affect the performance and application of fluorescence analysis and imaging. Aggregation-Caused Quenching has limited the application of traditional fluorescent probes to some extent. This project intends to systematically evaluate the detection efficiency of new methods through the detection of biomarkers in clinical samples and the comparison with the detection methods of traditional biomarkers, so as to provide theoretical and experimental basis for the establishment of fast and simple biomarker detection technologies with new biological probes.

This study is conducted in Europe and the United States of America (USA). The aim of the study is to validate two measures for growth hormone deficiency in children, the Treatment Related Impact Measure of Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency (TRIM-CGHD) and the Treatment Burden Measure of Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency (TB-CGHD).

The aim of this study is to assess the developmental patterns of lung function in children affected by growth hormone deficiency after one year of GH therapy.The assessment by specific questionnaires of quality of life and of parental stress index.Parameters will be evaluated at the time of the diagnosis and after 12 months of GH therapy.

This study is designed as a prospective non-randomized longitudinal single-center cohort study. It will enroll around 120 patients undergoing total thyroidectomy with data being collected from September 2019 up to December 2019. The hypothesis is that a significant association and cut-off point in PTH levels may be established with regard to postoperativne hypocalcaemia. Primary outcome measures are presence of hypocalcemia on the first and fifth postoperative day. Secondary outcome measures are the need for calcium supplement therapy during the first five postoperative days and amount of medication given. Associations between variables will be assessed using Spearman's rho rank correlation coefficient, the Kruskal-Wallis test for independent samples and a logistic regression model to test statistically significant correlations between PTH and serum calcium values as a primary end point.

This study will recruit healthy controls (who have normal GH production and growth hormone levels) and patients identified as having GHD, who are deemed eligible for GH replacement therapy according to NICE guidelines. The patients recruited will have been identified as starting on GH by their referring clinicians and a decision made on their replacement therapy prior to their potential enrollment in the study. The study, or its research team, will have no influence on the decision as to whether a patient will start on GH, or on which of the many GH formulations that the patients receives. The proposed study is an observational study to determine how GH affects the plasma levels of Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) in response to treatment; and whether the change in FGF21 mirrors the improvement in body composition/fat deposition. FGF21 is a metabolic regulator that acts on multiple tissues to coordinate carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and regulate energy balance. We hypothesize that FGF-21 is expressed and secreted from liver and skeletal muscle in humans in response to growth hormone administration and that levels may be reduced in patients with GHD compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, we believe that the beneficial effects of long-term GH replacement on body composition (reduction in visceral adipose tissue, subcutaneous adipose tissue and liver fat), on improvement in lipid profiles and on skeletal muscle mitochondrial function involve GH-induced release of FGF21.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether acute pancreatitis results in increased endocrine dysfunction or not? To evaluate whether severity of acute pancreatitis have an impact on the development of endocrine dysfunction or not? 1.4 MATERIALS AND METHODS:- Definitions … 1) Acute pancreatitis…..Acute pancreatitis is best defined clinically by a patient presenting with 2 of the following 3 criteria: (1) symptoms(e.g., epigastric pain) consistent with pancreatitis, (2) a serum amylase or lipase level greater than 3 times the laboratory's upper limit of normal, and (3) radiologic imaging consistent with pancreatitis, usually using CT or MRI.The AtlantaCriteria revision of 2012 classifies severity as mild, moderately severe, or severe. Mild acute pancreatitis has no organ failure, no local or systemic complications.Moderately-severe acute pancreatitis is defined by the presence of transient organ failure (lasting <48 hours) and/or local complications.Severe acute pancreatitis is defined by persistent organ failure (lasting >48 hours). Local complications include peripancreatic fluid collections, pancreatic and peripancreatic necrosis (sterile or infected), pseudocyst, and walled-offnecrosis (sterile or infected) . Prediabetes/Diabetes….Prediabetes is defined by fasting blood glucose (FBG ≥(100 mg/dL) and <(126 mg/dL),and/or 2 h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) criteria as >/ (140 mg/dL) and < (200 mg/dL)) or HbA1c of 5.7% to 6.4%. DM is defined as (FBG ≥ (126 mg/dL) or 2 hOGTT ≥ (200 mg/dL)or HbA1c value>/ 6.5% ,treatment with insulin, oral hypoglycaemic agents or specific dietary management. Diagnosis of diabetes in asymptomatic patients is established by presence of abnormal test results in 2 out of 3 parameters used(FBG,OGTT or HbA1c) or if only one test result is abnormal ,needs to be confirmed on next day or few days later by repeat testing of the specific parameter. Study design :- Single center ,prospective cohort study performed at a tertiary care centre (Asian institute of gastroenterology , Hyderabad) from Feb 2019 to May 2020. Participant recruitment procedures…. Patient enrollment from Feb 2019 to May 2019 & follow up of each case upto 1 year, upto May 2020(1 year follow up). Primary outcome-Development of endocrine dysfunction (diabetes & prediabetes) after acute pancreatitis Secondary outcomes-Whether severity of acute pancreatitis correlate with development of diabetes & prediabetes.