A study on improving bone health in female epileptic patients
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Female epileptic patients
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2015/08/006103
- Lead Sponsor
- KG Hospital and Postgraduate Research Institute
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 100
•Female patients diagnosed with epilepsy and under anti-epileptic drug therapy for at least a period of two years
•The patient aged 15 to 45
•Patients with same characteristics both physically as well as clinically
•Both in-patients and out-patients of department of Neurology.
•The patients who are keeping up their regular follow-up appointments.
•The patient who are willing to give informed content.
•Pre-pubertic girls and postmenopausal women.
•Patients with conditions known to affect bone metabolism such as hepatic or renal disorders, hypothyroidism, or malabsorption.
•Patients with a history of intake of pharmacologic amounts of medications that can affect bone turn over (e.g., Vitamin A, anabolic steroids, bisphosphonates, glucocorticoids, thiazides, calcitonin)
•Patients from pediatrics, pregnant women, gynecological patients with hormone imbalance and emergency
•Psychiatric patients
•Patients not coming for regular follow up
•Patients who are not willing to participate in the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improved Bone mineral densityTimepoint: 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Decreased Fracture RiskTimepoint: 1 year