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Influence of Obesity on Oxalate Metabolism and Handling in Calcium Oxalate Stone Formers

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Kidney Stone
Interventions
Other: Controlled Diet
Dietary Supplement: Carbon-13 Oxalate and Sucralose Ingestion
Registration Number
NCT04333745
Lead Sponsor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Brief Summary

The primary goals of this study are to determine the contribution of dietary oxalate absorption, renal oxalate handling, and endogenous oxalate synthesis to urinary oxalate excretion in normal Body Mass Index (BMI) and obese calcium oxalate kidney stone formers.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
22
Inclusion Criteria
  • Normal Body Mass Index (≥ 18.5 to < 25); Obese Body Mass Index (≥ 30 to ≤ 45)
  • Able to provide informed consent
  • Willingness to consume controlled diet
  • Composition of most recent stone > 50% calcium oxalate, no uric acid component
  • First time or recurrent calcium oxalate stone former
  • 24-hour urine collections with creatinine values within 20% of appropriate ratio of creatinine (mg)/body weight (kg) for gender, and with creatinine values that are consistent between collections (within 20% of each other)
  • Willingness to stop supplements [vitamins, Ca (citrate or carbonate) and other minerals, herbal supplements, nutritional aids, probiotics] for 14 days before start and during study
  • Willingness to not undertake vigorous exercise during the controlled dietary study
  • Normal fasting blood Comprehensive Metabolic Panel
  • Hemoglobin A1c < 6.5%
  • No food allergies or intolerance to any of the food in study menus
  • Permitted/willing to discontinue medications for kidney stone prevention, including thiazides, allopurinol, and febuxostat and citrate preparations, for 14 days before start and during the studies. They will be instructed to restart these medications at the conclusion of the study
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Exclusion Criteria
  • Diabetes
  • Abnormal fasting comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP)
  • Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) result ≥ 6.5%
  • Gout
  • Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) <60 ml/min/1.73m^2
  • Primary hyperoxaluria
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Cystinuria
  • Uric acid stone former
  • Utilization of immunosuppressive medication
  • Nephrotic syndrome
  • Enteric hyperoxaluria
  • Gastrointestinal disorder that could impact oxalate transport
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Uncontrolled hypertension
  • Renal tubular acidosis
  • Primary hyperparathyroidism
  • Liver disease
  • Neurogenic bladder
  • Urinary diversion
  • Chronic diarrhea
  • Bariatric surgery
  • Active malignancy or treatment for malignancy within 12 months prior to screening
  • Pregnancy
  • Breast feeding/nursing
  • Females of child bearing age who are not able to use an effective method of birth control during the study
  • Mental/medical condition that is likely to impede successful study completion
  • Illness including flu / common cold / fever 14 days before study and during study
  • Diarrhea or other abnormal gastrointestinal event (e.g. abnormal bowel movements) 14 days before study or during study
  • Antibiotic use within last 6 months (based on recommendations of the NIH Human Microbiome Project, Protocol A)
  • Inability or unwillingness to undergo MRI
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Controlled Dietary StudyControlled DietParticipants will consume the controlled diet for five days. After one day on the diet, subjects will provide three 24-hour urine collections. On the last dayof the diet, subjects will come in a fasted state to ingest a small amount of carbon-13 oxalate and sucralose, with hourly urine collections and blood samples being taken before and after the ingestion.
Controlled Dietary StudyCarbon-13 Oxalate and Sucralose IngestionParticipants will consume the controlled diet for five days. After one day on the diet, subjects will provide three 24-hour urine collections. On the last dayof the diet, subjects will come in a fasted state to ingest a small amount of carbon-13 oxalate and sucralose, with hourly urine collections and blood samples being taken before and after the ingestion.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Urinary Oxalate ExcretionBaseline through Day 5

Urinary oxalate excretion from urine samples will be measured as mg/day

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Birmingham, Alabama, United States

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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Dallas, Texas, United States

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