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Status unknownNCT03172650Updated Aug 16, 2017

Effect of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease on Kidney Functions

An observational study in Liver Diseases, sponsored by Assiut University. Status unknown at 1 site in Egypt. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-08-16.

Sponsored by Assiut University · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Aug 2017), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Case-control
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
120
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common cause of chronic liver disease worldwide. It is defined as the accumulation of fat (>5%) in the liver cells in the absence of excessive alcohol intake or other causes of liver disease including viral, drug-induced, or autoimmune. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is a hepatic manifestation of metabolic syndrome.

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Conditions studied

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In context

Liver Diseases

2,081 studies on the registry are indexed under Liver Diseases; 390 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 120 is below the median of 167 across 681 observational studies indexed under Liver Diseases.

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Lead sponsor

Assiut University is the lead sponsor of 4,901 studies on the registry; 2,098 are open to participants now.

Of its 13 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Patients will be recruited outpatient clinic of internal medicine of Luxor international hospital and Assiut university hospital

Inclusion criteria

  • All non alcoholic fatty liver disease patients evidenced by abdominal ultrasound.
  • Urine analysis whether normal or renal sedimentation.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria:

  1. Alcoholic fatty liver patients.
  2. patients known to have diabetes mellitus.
  3. patients with other causes of liver disease as viral hepatitis, drug induced,or autoimmune.
  4. patients known to have kidney disease.
  5. Hypertension.
  6. Hyperuricemia.
  7. Impaired urea and creatinine patients.
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Study design

Observational model
Case-control
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
120 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • study group

    non alcoholic fatty liver disease patients

    Diagnostic Test: glomerular filtration rate

  • Control group

    fatty liver patients

    Diagnostic Test: glomerular filtration rate

Interventions

  • Diagnostic testglomerular filtration rate

    collection of blood sample 5 milliliter for calculation of glomerular filtration rate

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. The percentage of patients with abnormal laboratory glomerular filtration rate

    decreased glomerular filtration rate \<60 mL/minute will be considered abnormal

    Time frame: 1 day

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Ahmed Abbas
    Assiut, Cairo 002, Egypt
    Recruiting
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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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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 16, 2017, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03172650
Lead sponsor
Assiut University
Responsible party
Ahmed Mohamed Abbas (principal investigator, Assiut University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 1, 2017
Start date
Jul 1, 2017
Primary completion
Jul 2018 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 2018 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 16, 2017

Study contacts

Mahmoud Ali, MBBCh
Contact
ans1111eg@gmail.com
00201144287363

Oversight

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