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NCT04001907

Effect of Exercise With and Without HMB on Body Composition and Muscle Strength in Sickle Cell Anaemia

Status unknown NA Last updated 28 June 2019
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Resistance exercise in Sickle Cell Anemia in 24 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline
30 April 2013
Primary endpoint
7 March 2017
15 November 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsorThe University of The West Indies
PhaseNA
StatusStatus unknown
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingdouble
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment24
Start date30 April 2013
Primary completion7 March 2017
Estimated completion15 November 2019

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

The University of The West Indies

Who can join

Adults 19 to 35, any sex, with Sickle Cell Anemia. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Wasting is a common and significant problem in sickle cell anaemia (SCA) that correlates with poorer clinical outcome such as frequent painful crises, acute chest syndrome and sub normal resistance to infection. Thus, improvement of nutritional status in SCA holds the potential of ameliorating the course of the disease. Elevated haemolysis and its effects are associated with hypermetabolism and have resulted in higher rates of protein breakdown and synthesis, and energy expenditure. Offering more food has not optimized nutritional status and metabolic performance in free-living patients with SCA. Moreover, appetite might be suppressed. Supplementation with β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB), which is produced in the body from leucine, has been shown to have inhibitory effect on protein breakdown and to promote lean tissue synthesis in humans with sarcopenia. Also, HMB has been implicated as an ergogenic tool to promote exercise performance and skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Therefore, the investigators hypothesize that in individuals with SCA, an intervention of resistance exercise with HMB supplement will have a greater enhancing effect on muscle mass and strength compared to receiving resistance exercise without HMB.

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