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NCT03567811
Exertional Exhaustion in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
NA trial testing Submaximal bicycle exercise stress test on Days 1 and 2 in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in 72 participants. Completed in 31 July 2018.
31 July 2018
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Georgetown University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | non randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | basic science |
| Enrollment | 72 |
| Start date | 1 August 2013 |
| Primary completion | 31 July 2018 |
| Estimated completion | 31 July 2018 |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Submaximal bicycle exercise stress test on Days 1 and 2
Conditions studied
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome — all drugs for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome →
Sponsor
Georgetown University
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Post-exertional malaise was modeled by having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and sedentary control subjects perform submaximal exercise on 2 consecutive days with objective changes in brain function measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during cognitive tests before and after the 2 exercise sessions.
Publications & conference data
5 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Orthostatic intolerance in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Garner R, Baraniuk JN. · · 2019 · cited 25× · PMID 31159884 · DOI 10.1186/s12967-019-1935-y -
A Machine Learning Approach to the Differentiation of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) From a Sedentary Control.
Provenzano D, Washington SD, Baraniuk JN. · · 2020 · cited 14× · PMID 32063839 · DOI 10.3389/fncom.2020.00002 -
Machine Learning Detects Pattern of Differences in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Data between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Gulf War Illness (GWI).
Provenzano D, Washington SD, Rao YJ, Loew M, et al · · 2020 · cited 9× · PMID 32708912 · DOI 10.3390/brainsci10070456 -
Cerebrospinal fluid metabolomics, lipidomics and serine pathway dysfunction in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndroome (ME/CFS).
Baraniuk JN. · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 40025157 · DOI 10.1038/s41598-025-91324-1 -
Exertional Exhaustion (Post-Exertional Malaise, PEM) Evaluated by the Effects of Exercise on Cerebrospinal Fluid Metabolomics-Lipidomics and Serine Pathway in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Baraniuk JN. · · 2025 · cited 4× · PMID 39941050 · DOI 10.3390/ijms26031282
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03567811 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Georgetown University
- Last refreshed: 20 June 2019
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