Clinical trials: Lipid Disorders and Lipid Measurement
Hypercholesterolemia, Dyslipidemia
Lipid Biomarker Study in Men With Dyslipidemia After Simvastatin Treatment (Study MK-0000-140)(COMPLETED)
The purpose of this study was to provide human lipidomics standards with simvastatin treatment that were to be used for comparison with similar preclinical studies.
- Trial name
- NCT00935259
- Testing
- Simvastatin
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Hyperlipidemia
Biosynthesis of PGD2 in Vivo
The investigator would like to see if aspirin could block niacin-induced flushing by analyzing blood and urine after taking aspirin. Phase I: Subjects were assigned to either placebo or aspirin groups.
- Trial name
- NCT01275300
- Testing
- Aspirin, Niacin
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors, Hyperlipidemias
Measure Liver Fat Content After ISIS 301012 (Mipomersen) Administration
This study will assess what, if any, effect that ISIS 301012 (mipomersen) has on liver triglyceride content in multiple groups of subjects with varying degrees of risk for hepatic steatosis.
- Conditions
- Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors, Hyperlipidemias, Metabolic Diseases, Hypolipoproteinemia
- Trial name
- NCT00362180
- Testing
- mipomersen
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kastle Therapeutics, LLC
Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity
Effect of Low Carbohydrate Versus Low Fat Diet in the Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Obese Children With Metabolic Syndrome
Two-arm, parallel design with children between the ages of 10 - 18 with obesity and metabolic syndrome randomized (15 per group) to reduced-carbohydrate diet or a reduced-fat diet for 8 weeks.
- Conditions
- Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Dyslipidemias
- Trial name
- NCT03937960
- Testing
- Carbohydrate restricted group, Standard low fat diet
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
HIV Infections
HIV Acquired Lipodystrophy (HAL) Classification, Measurement and Fat Response to Thiazolidinedione (TZD) (Pioglitazone)
This study is being done to better understand why people with HIV who have taken drugs for HIV begin to show abnormal changes in fat loss or fat gain in their bodies. This condition is called lipodystrophy.
- Trial name
- HAL (NCT01023620)
- Testing
- Pioglitazone, Observation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4 people
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center