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The Effect of Subcutaneous Ghrelin On Appetite And Nutritional Status In Patients Receiving Maintenance Peritoneal Dialysis
ISRCTN ISRCTN93119886
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier
Public title The Effect of Subcutaneous Ghrelin On Appetite And Nutritional Status In Patients Receiving Maintenance Peritoneal Dialysis
Scientific title
Acronym N/A
Serial number at source N0016148177
Study hypothesis The short term administration of ghrelin to patients with anorexia with end stage kidney disease will result in increased appetite and calorie intake
Lay summary
Ethics approval Not provided at time of registration
Study design Randomised double blind cross over study
Countries of recruitment United Kingdom
Disease/condition/study domain Urological and Genital Diseases: Kidney disease
Participants - inclusion criteria Patients with end stage kidney disease
Participants - exclusion criteria Not provided at time of registration
Anticipated start date 13/03/2004
Anticipated end date 13/03/2007
Status of trial Completed
Patient information material
Target number of participants 12 volunteers
Interventions Ghrelin vs placebo
Primary outcome measure(s) Not provided at time of registration
Secondary outcome measure(s) Not provided at time of registration
Sources of funding Hammersmith Hospital NHS Trust (UK) - NHS R&D Support
Trial website
Publications 2005 results on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15888560
Contact name Prof  Stephen  Bloom
  Address 6th Floor, Commonwealth Bldg.
Imperial College School of Medicine
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode W12 0HS
  Country United Kingdom
  Tel +44 (0)20 8383 3242
  Fax +44 (0)20 8383 3142
  Email s.bloom@imperial.ac.uk
Sponsor Record Provided by the NHSTCT Register - 2005 Update - Department of Health (UK)
  Address The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
  City/town London
  Zip/Postcode SW1A 2NL
  Country United Kingdom
  Tel +44 (0)20 7307 2622
  Fax +44 (0)20 7307 2623
  Email dhmail@doh.gsi.org.uk
  Sponsor website: http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en
Date applied 30/09/2005
Last edited 14/02/2008
Date ISRCTN assigned 30/09/2005
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