Creatinine Height Index in Elderly

Completed

• Conditions: Malnutrition in Elderly
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: 24 hour urine creatinine excretion

• Registration Number: NCT03814057
• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University

Brief Summary

evaluation of the efficacy of two different age adjusted calculations of CHI compared to other nutritional indicators in the elderly medical patients upon hospital admission.

Detailed Description

Cross sectional study involving one hundred hospitalized elderly (\>60 years), Anthropometric measurements, Mini- nutritional assessment, Hand Grip strength, CBC, total protein, albumin, total cholesterol, triglyceride, and 24 hour urinary creatinine excretion were measured within 24 hours of hospital admission calculation of CHI using 2 age adjusted modification was done accuracy of each measurement in detecting malnutrition was evaluated

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-01
• Study Completion: 2018-05-01
• Study First Submitted: 2019-01-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-01-22
• Study First Posted: 2019-01-23
• Status Verified: 2024-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-07-30
• Last Update Posted: 2024-07-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• medical elderly patients (>60 years)
• within 24 hours of hospital admission

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Exclusion Criteria

• sepsis
• fever
• malignancy
• liver cirrhosis
• renal impairment
• critically ill patients
• those with any hemodynamic instability were excluded from the study
• patients receiving diuretics
• patients can't stand to obtain their weight and height
• those can't collect 24 hour urine
• the patients refused to participate in the study

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Elderly Medical Patients at hospital admission	24 hour urine creatinine excretion	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
accuracy of creatinine height index in Elderly	within 24 hours of hospital admission	evaluate the test performance of the two age adjusted calculations of creatinine height index for detecting malnutrition in elderly patients at hospital admission

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ain Shams University; 🇪🇬 Cairo, Egypt