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CompletedNCT03485716Updated Apr 2, 2018

Metabolic Dynamics During Physical Activity

An interventional study of running on a treadmill under normoxia or hypoxia in Healthy Men and Women, sponsored by Charite University, Berlin, Germany. Completed at 1 site in Germany. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 55 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-04-02.

Primary conditionHypoxiaRegistry: Motor ActivityReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Motor Activity — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Hypoxia
Why
  1. Motor Activity is a broad heading, used only when no more specific condition is named.
  2. The study's title name Hypoxia.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own title. Of 46 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 72% were exactly right and 89% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 4% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
Wrong?
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Sponsored by Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 7 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Aug 2016, registered Mar 2018).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
34
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 35 studies in Hypoxia with a site in Germany — 4 open to participants now, 4 under way, 1 of them phase 3. Hypoxia · Germany.

Enrollment
17th of 30
34 · median 35
Started
2016
the only one that year
No phase
22 of 35
2 open now
Registered
22nd of 35
by date
Lead sponsor
3 of 35
Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Among the 35 studies in Hypoxia with a site in Germany, this one is the 17th largest by enrollment of the 30 interventional ones that give a count, is the only one that started in 2016, is one of 22 with no phase, and was the 22nd registered.

Hypoxia

1,076 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypoxia; 213 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

4 of the 35 studies in Hypoxia with a site in Germany are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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A study can be open while its sites in Germany have not opened yet or have stopped. Only those recruiting at a site in Germany →

Who these studies take

Of the 125 Hypoxia studies recruiting now, 53 (42%) set no upper age limit and 45 (36%) stop at 75 or younger; 15 take children under 18; 33 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 55 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.

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Study summary

The aim of this study is to systematically Analyse the metabolome in capillary blood of healthy men and women at rest and during defined standardized physical activity under normobaric normoxia or hypoxia with a specific focus on metabolites and metabolic pattern related to energy metabolism. The metabolome analyses in capillary blood could give us also or more detailed insight into erythrocyte metabolic physiology because it is known for a longer time that the primary metabolism of the erythrocyte reflects its Oxygen Saturation via the glycolytic metabolites / intermediates pattern.

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Conditions studied

  • Healthy Men and Women

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Keywords

  • metabolism
  • metabolome
  • physical activity
  • hypoxia
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In context

Hypoxia Reclassified

1,076 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypoxia; 213 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 34 is below the median of 45 across 769 interventional studies indexed under Hypoxia.

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Lead sponsor

Charite University, Berlin, Germany is the lead sponsor of 857 studies on the registry; 129 are open to participants now.

Compared within Hypoxia, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Motor Activity. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 55 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • healthy volunteers
  • written

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • known cardio-vascular, lung, metabolic, endocrine, hematologic, kidney or neurologic diseases
  • pregnancy, lactating period
  • unability to understand study content and aims and to give written
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Informed consent

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Crossover assignment
Masking
Single (Participant)
Enrollment
34 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    running under hypoxia - first

    running under hypoxia (first day) and normoxia (second day)

    Other: running on a treadmill under normoxia or hypoxia

  • Active comparator
    running under normoxia - first

    running under normoxia (first day) and hypoxia (second day)

    Other: running on a treadmill under normoxia or hypoxia

Interventions

  • Otherrunning on a treadmill under normoxia or hypoxia

    * 30 min running (60% VO2max) on a treadmill under hypoxia (O2: 14%) * 30 min running (60% VO2max) on a treadmill under normoxia (O2: 20%)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in capillary lactate/pyruvate Ratio (dimension-free)

    marker for the ratio between anaerobic / aerobic glycolysis

    Time frame: t = 0 min (before exercise); t = 10, 20 and 30 min during exercise; t = 50 and 60 min during recovery

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Study locations

1 site
  • Charite University Medicine, ECRC
    Berlin, 13125, Germany
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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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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Aug 2016 to primary completion in Mar 2017, 7 months.

Of 321 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Hypoxia, half reached primary completion within 12 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 4 and three quarters within 27. This study's 7 months is below that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 351 studies reached it within 12 months; a quarter within 3 and three quarters within 27.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Mar 19, 2018
First posted
Apr 2, 2018
StartActual
Aug 1, 2016
Primary completionActual
Mar 31, 2017
CompletionActual
Dec 31, 2017
Last update
Apr 2, 2018
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 2, 2018, 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
NCT03485716
Responsible party
Michael Boschmann (Dr. Michael Boschmann, Charite University, Berlin, Germany) — Principal investigator
First posted
Apr 2, 2018
Start date
Aug 1, 2016
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2017
Completion
Dec 31, 2017
Last update
Apr 2, 2018

Study contacts

Michael Boschmann, Dr.
principal investigator · Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Oversight

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