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Specific Enteral Nutrition in Malnourished, Dialysis Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease. Efficacy, Safety, Quality of Life

Phase 2
Withdrawn
Conditions
Renal Failure Chronic Requiring Hemodialysis
Activity
Tolerance
Quality of Life
Severe Malnutrition
Appetite and General Nutritional Disorders
Chronic Kidney Disease
Registration Number
NCT01946841
Lead Sponsor
Lactalis
Brief Summary

The objective of this unblinded study is to assess the nutritional effects of a 12 weeks administration of the specific enteral nutrition (SEN) RealDiet®Renal pockets, as well as the impact on the patients' quality of life.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
WITHDRAWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
  • Chronic kidney disease patient on hemodialysis for at least 3 months, with a minimum of three hemodialysis sessions of 4 hours per week

  • Patients aged 18 years

  • Written, free and informed consent given by the Patient

  • Patient insured under the social security system or equivalent

  • Patients who did not receive enteral nutrition during the 3 months preceding inclusion ; taking an oral nutritional supplement, or per-dialytic parenteral nutrition or total parenteral nutrition is not a criterion of non-inclusion

  • Patient in a state of malnutrition

    • defined by the presence of at least 3 out of 5 of the following criteria :

      • weight loss greater than 10% observed in the last six months
      • serum albumin <35 g / l
      • serum Prealbumin <300 mg / l
      • BMI <20
      • NPNA <1 g / kg / day for 2 consecutive months

and

  • presenting

    • food intake <20 kcal / kg / day or
    • failure of other nutritional care methods, namely, oral nutritional supplements and / or peridialytic parenteral nutrition, or total parenteral nutrition
    • lack of compliance after one month, to the nutritional care methods mentioned above. • Patients for whom the decision to prescribe enteral feeding was previously taken
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients with a history of intolerance to enteral feeding
  • Index Kt/Veq (balanced) < or = 1.2 or index Kt/Vsp (single pool) < or = 1.4 according to the method used
  • Patients with a disease compromising the short-term (4-6 months) prognosis (cancer or other disease in the terminal phase)
  • Pregnant Patient
  • Patient with a known allergy to at least one of the following : milk protein, soy, fish
  • Patient whose digestive tract is not functional or patient in shock
  • Patient protected under guardianship
  • Patient in exclusion period after participation in another clinical trial.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Evolution of serum prealbumin and albumin.6 months

Evaluate during 3 months specific enteral nutrition (SEN) treatment, and 3 months after treatment interruption, the effects of the study product on the evolution of serum prealbumin and albumin.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Evolution of nutritional status during 3 months of enteral nutrition, and during 3 months after end of treatment.6 months
Evolution of quality of life during 3 months of enteral nutrition, and during 3 months after end of treatment.6 months
Evolution of tolerance of study product during 3 months of enteral nutrition.3 mois

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Lactalis

🇫🇷

Retiers, France

Lactalis
🇫🇷Retiers, France

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