Clinical trials: Metabolic Flexibility
Obesity
Metabolic Flexibility to Predict Lifestyle Interventions Outcomes
Weight loss is a cornerstone of diabetes (T2D) management, yet in clinical practice, its delivery is limited by its perceived burdensome nature and variability in response.
- Trial name
- MEPHISTO (NCT06329349)
- Testing
- Exercise, Combined Exercise + Diet
- Where
- 3 sites in Czechia
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Charles University, Czech Republic
Glucose Intolerance
Carnitine Infusion and Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistant subjects and type 2 diabetic patients are characterized by a decreased metabolic flexibility: a reduced capability to switch from fat oxidation in the basal state to carbohydrate oxidation in the…
- Trial name
- NCT02722902
- Testing
- Carnitor, IntraLipid
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 17 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
Infant Body Composition and Metabolism, Metabolism
Studying Phenotypic Risks for Obesity and Underlying Traits in Young Infants
The purpose of this research study is to understand how infants metabolize different meals and to develop clinical tools which identify infants as having two different phenotypes.
- Conditions
- Infant Body Composition and Metabolism, Metabolism, Energy Expenditure, Infant Formula
- Trial name
- SPROUT (NCT07096011)
- Testing
- Meal Test - Human Milk, Meal Test - Infant Formula
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Health Behavior
Effect of Breaking up Prolonged Sitting on Metabolic Flexibility
The investigators propose in this project to determine the effect of 3 days of frequent interruption of prolonged sitting on metabolic health in healthy overweight sedentary adults (n=24), as compared to 3 days including a single…
- Trial name
- NCT02258438
- Testing
- Uninterrupted sitting, Sitting + 1 bout of activity, Sitting + microbursts of activity
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Substrate Metabolism During Exercise
VO2max and Substrate Crossover Point
This study aims to investigate the relationship between maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) and the substrate crossover point during incremental exercise.
- Conditions
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Substrate Metabolism During Exercise, Metabolic Flexibility, Maximal Oxygen Uptake
- Trial name
- VO2MAX-CROSS (NCT07799662)
- Testing
- Incremental Graded Exercise Test (Bruce Protocol)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Celil Kaçoğlu
Obesity Prevention, Obesity
Molecular Landscape of Complex Lifestyle Modification
The goal of this clinical trial is to detect the impact of the 3-month complex lifestyle intervention, consisting of dietary counselling, supervised exercise training and cognitive-behavioural intervention in middle-aged…
- Conditions
- Obesity Prevention, Obesity, Metabolic Disease
- Trial name
- COPMose (NCT06954298)
- Testing
- supervised lifestyle modification
- Where
- Slovakia
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- Slovak Academy of Sciences
Healthy
MitoQ & Cardiopulmonary Responses During Exercise
Study Purpose: To examine the acute effects of antioxidant supplementation on energy use during a single bout of exercise in apparently healthy adult men and women.
- Trial name
- NCT06069245
- Testing
- MitoQ
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ball State University
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Leukemia, B-cell
Precision Exercise in Children With Malignant Hemopathies
In the early years of life and during adolescence, physical activity is crucial for good development of motor skills. It is even more so for those children and young people who are forced to undergo anti-cancer therapies and…
- Conditions
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Leukemia, B-cell, Leukemia, T Cell, Lymphoma, Hodgkin
- Trial name
- SportTherapy (NCT04090268)
- Testing
- Sport Therapy
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 380 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Milano Bicocca
Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
This Study Assessed the Impact of Diet on Gastric Emptying Time and Metabolic Flexibility
Consumption of slowly digestible carbohydrates can elicit higher satiety feeling compared to rapidly digestible carbohydrates, however not all individuals respond the same.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Appetitive Behavior
- Trial name
- IODC (NCT03630263)
- Testing
- Raw Corn Starch, No Raw Corn Starch
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Purdue University
Emotional Eating, Emotion Regulation
ACT-Based Group Therapy and Mobile Application Intervention for Emotional Eating
This study aims to evaluate the effects of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based group therapy program, combined with an ACT-based mobile app, on emotional eating, emotion regulation, and psychological flexibility in…
- Conditions
- Emotional Eating, Emotion Regulation, Overweight, Psychological Flexibility
- Trial name
- ACT-EE (NCT07559552)
- Testing
- ACT-Based Group Therapy, ACT-Based Mobile Application
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 78 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Type 2 Diabetes
Myocardial Metabolism in Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by a metabolic shift from fat to carbohydrates and failure to increase myocardial glucose uptake in response to workload increments.
- Trial name
- NCT02440217
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana
Prediabetes
Cocoa and Metabolic Health in Prediabetes
The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of consuming cocoa on blood glucose levels, glucose metabolism, and other markers of pre-diabetes in overweight and/or obese individuals.
- Trial name
- NCT02203240
- Testing
- Cocoa
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Healthy Volunteers
Metabolic Flexibility as a Biomarker of Adaptation to Diet and Exercise Challenges
The objective is to develop a new metabolic flexibility biomarker, which has application in the study of changes diet and exercise on fuel management in humans.
- Trial name
- NCT01987388
- Testing
- High Intensity Exercise, Low Intensity Exercise, High Carbohydrate Beverage
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), Insulinemic Response
Assessment of Metabolic Changes in Response to Glcuose Intake in Women With Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS)
Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is a common endocrine and metabolic condition affecting women of reproductive age.
- Conditions
- PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), Insulinemic Response, Overweight (BMI > 25)
- Trial name
- METFLEX (NCT07687264)
- Testing
- Oral Clucose Tolerance Test (oGTT)
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Zurich
Heart Failure With Normal Ejection Fraction, Obesity
Unsaturated Fatty Acids Enriched-diet to Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Metabolic Flexibility and Glucose Tolerance in Obese Patients
The investigators hypothesize that a dietary intervention aimed at increasing unsaturated fatty acids (UFA) consumption is feasible and has the potential to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, metabolic flexibility and glucose…
- Trial name
- NCT03310099
- Testing
- Increasing daily unsaturated fatty acid consumption
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disease
Targeting Metabolic Flexibility in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
MetFlex is an investigator led, open-label, single-arm, Phase 2a trial to determine the safety and tolerability of trimetazidine for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease (ALS/MND).
- Trial name
- MetFlex (NCT04788745)
- Testing
- Trimetazidine Dihydrochloride
- Where
- 3 sites in Australia, Netherlands and 1 more
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Queensland
Cardiometabolic Diseases, Postmenopause
Exercise and Prolonged Fasting to Improve Brown Adipose Tissue Function in Postmenopausal Women
Type of Study: Clinical Trial Goal: The goal of this clinical trial is to investigate mitochondrial function in interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT) in postmenopausal women and determine whether aerobic exercise, prolonged…
- Trial name
- EMPOWER-BAT (NCT07837752)
- Testing
- Aerobic exercise, Prolonged fasting
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Almeria
Type 1 Diabetes
The Influence of Glycemic Control and Obesity on Energy Balance and Metabolic Flexibility in Type 1 Diabetes
The purpose of this study is to measure the metabolic phenotype of a range of body weights in individuals with and without type 1 diabetes.
- Trial name
- ACME (NCT03379792)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- AdventHealth Translational Research Institute
Diet, Healthy, Body Weight
Diet-Induced Changes in GEnetic Material
This is a pilot study in 10 men to test the hypothesis that perturbations in substrate flux and the circulating metabolic and pro-inflammatory milieus during a high-fat diet paradigm will modulate DNA methylation of genes in…
- Conditions
- Diet, Healthy, Body Weight, Metabolic Disturbance
- Trial name
- DIG 'EM (NCT06252922)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Poor Glycemic Control, Quality of Life
Benefits of a Bolus Calculator in Pediatric Patients on Multiple Daily Insulin Injections
It it hypothesized that children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, who are counting carbohydrates can achieve better metabolic control by concurrent use of the Accu-Chek Aviva Expert.
- Trial name
- NCT06141629
- Testing
- accu chek Aviva Expert, Accu Chek Aviva Nano
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven