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CompletedNCT03162172OPALE GHUpdated May 22, 2017

Growth Hormone (GH) in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

An observational study in Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital, sponsored by Hospices Civils de Lyon. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-05-22.

Sponsored by Hospices Civils de Lyon · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
25
Ages
18 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a genetic rare disease, which alters the adrenal production of gluco and mineralo corticoids. The treatment consists in supplementing children using hydrocortisone. Despite care for these children has improve substantially across decades, short adult height still remains an important consequence of the disease. About 20 % of patients have an AH below 2 standard deviations compared to their expected height.

In the OPALE model study, the investigators have collected data from a cohort of 496 French patients, born between 1970 and 1991 and with a known genotype. Using their age, sex, growth, disease, bone maturation and pubertal data, they have built a model which allows to predict their AH using data available at 8 years of age. This model has shown that the currently used formula to calculate the predicted AH (Bayley Pineau's method) is not applicable to children with CAH.

In this project, the investigators plan to use the prediction model to compare the AH in patients who have received GH treatment to their predicted AH using the model.

The hypothesis is that GH improves the AH in such patients. Existing cohorts have shown improved growth celerity, and growth expectation using the Bayley-Pineau formula), but this has not been shown on the actual AH.

This study will allow to reinforce the investigators' hypothesis.

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Conditions studied

  • Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital

Keywords

  • congenital adrenal hyperplasia
  • short stature
  • growth hormone treatment
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Patients with genetically proven CAH, classical form, or simple virilizing, with 21 hydroxylase, or 11ᵝ hydroxylase, or 3βol-dehydrogenase deficit, born between 1970 and 1998, having received GH treatment for a minimal one year duration.

Inclusion criteria

Patients with CAH, born between 1970 and 1998, having received GH treatment for a minimal one year duration.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with chronic any growth altering disease, Turner syndrome or other genetic anomaly; 8-year wrist Xray and adult height should be available to allow the use of the OPALE model prediction.
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
25 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Adult height (AH) gain

    Difference between AH predicted by the OPALE model, and observed AH defined as (i) the height recorded after age 20 in boys or 18 in girls; (ii) the height recorded when bone age (BA) is ≥ 18 years in boys and 16 years in girls (99.6% of AH) (10); or (iii) the height measured after growth velocity drop to ≤ 1 cm/year

    Time frame: up to 18 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of treatment withdrawal due to adverse events

    Safety

    Time frame: up to 6 years of GH treatment

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Study locations

1 site
  • Hospices Civils de Lyon
    Lyon, 69500, France
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03162172
Lead sponsor
Hospices Civils de Lyon
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 22, 2017
Start date
Sep 15, 2015
Primary completion
Mar 15, 2016
Completion
Mar 15, 2016
Last update
May 22, 2017

Study contacts

Patricia Bretones, MD
principal investigator · Hospices Civils de Lyon

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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