Renal Osteodystrophy: A Fresh Approach
- Conditions
- Renal Osteodystrophy
- Registration Number
- NCT00859612
- Lead Sponsor
- Hartmut Malluche, MD
- Brief Summary
There are two major goals of this project:
1. Comparison of DXA and QCT for diagnosis of bone loss in CKD-5 patients and determination of the prevalence of low bone turnover in CKD-5 patients with bone loss.
2. Identification of the optimal combination of noninvasive tests for definition of the turnover component of ROD.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 464
- Aged 18 years or older;
- Chronic maintenance dialysis of at least 3 months' duration;
- Mental competence;
- Willingness to participate in the study;
- Calcidiol levels within normal range.
- Pregnancy;
- Systemic illnesses or organ diseases that may affect bone (except type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus);
- Clinical condition that may limit study participation (e.g., unstable angina, respiratory distress, infections).
- Chronic alcoholism and/or drug addiction;
- Participation in a study of an investigational drug during the past 90 days;
- Allergy to tetracycline.
- Planning to move out of the area within 2 years of the study;
- On active transplant list;
- Treatment within last 6 months with drugs that may affect bone metabolism (except for treatment with calcitriol, vitamin D analogs and/or calcimimetics).
- Calcidiol level below the normal range. The current routine clinical practice in our dialysis clinics is to check calcidiol status twice yearly and supplement with vitamin D according to serum calcidiol levels. It is therefore unlikely that a substantial number of patients will be excluded due to this exclusion criterion.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Comparison of DXA and QCT for diagnosis of bone loss in CKD-5 patients and determination of the prevalence of low bone turnover in CKD-5 patients with bone loss. 4 years Because each method (QCT or DXA) yields a dichotomous response (bone loss: yes or no), the proportion of patients with a bone loss will be compared between the 2 methods by using the McNemar statistic for correlated proportions.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Identification of the optimal combination of noninvasive tests for definition of the turnover component of ROD. 4 years A stepwise logistic model will be used to determine which combination of PTH and bone markers best predicts low bone turnover.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University of Kentucky
🇺🇸Lexington, Kentucky, United States