An observational study in Liver Cirrhosis and Malnutrition, sponsored by Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran. Completed at 1 site in Mexico. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-10-10.
Sponsored by Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran · Observational
Despite the importance of nutritional status in patient's outcome, there is no gold standard for nutritional assessment. Traditional techniques used in healthy subjects to assess nutritional status cannot be used in cirrhotic patients due especially to ascites and peripheral edema, and altered rates of biochemical markers due to liver failure.
Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis has emerged as a useful method to assess body composition and nutritional status especially in patients at the extremes of body weight (fluid overload, excess of adipose tissue, etc.).
With previous results from our research group, BIVA showed to be useful for evaluating cirrhotic patients.
The aim of this study is to validate our previous results and validate BIVA for nutritional assessment in patients with liver cirrhosis
1,642 studies on the registry are indexed under Liver Cirrhosis; 358 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 250 is above the median of 151 across 587 observational studies indexed under Liver Cirrhosis.
Browse Liver Cirrhosis studies →Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran is the lead sponsor of 141 studies on the registry; 17 are open to participants now.
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The participants will be recruited from the Gastroenterology Department of a tertiary care setting.
Diagnose of liver cirrhosis by two or more of the following criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Changes in nutritional status
It will be assessed by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis
Time frame: At the time of inclusion, every six months up to 36 months
Evaluation of mortality
Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 36 months.
Plan to share: No
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