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NCT04698486

Hepatic and Cardiac Metabolic Flexibility in Subjects With T2DM With and Without NAFLD

Completed NA Last updated 27 May 2022
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Hyperinsulinemic euglycaemic clamp in NAFLD - Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in 17 participants. Completed in 1 December 2021.

Timeline
3 July 2020
Primary endpoint
1 December 2021
1 December 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Aarhus
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationnon randomized
Designparallel
Maskingnone
Primary purposebasic science
Enrollment17
Start date3 July 2020
Primary completion1 December 2021
Estimated completion1 December 2021
Sites1 location across Denmark

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Aarhus

Who can join

Adults 30 to 70, any sex, with NAFLD - Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease or Type 2 Diabetes. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) covers a spectrum from simple reversible hepatic steatosis to inflammation and fibrosis termed steatohepatitis (NASH) and cirrhosis. Accumulating evidence indicates that NAFLD is associated with development of heart failure, abnormal ventricular glucose and fatty acid (FA) utilisation and cardiac steatosis. The mechanisms behind why some subjects progress from NAFLD to NASH and the link between cardiac involvement and NAFLD are poorly understood, but must include altered cardiac and intrahepatic lipid handling. Investigators plan comprehensive kinetic studies of heart and liver FA uptake and oxidation, ventricular function and substrate utilisation, and hepatic triglyceride (TG) secretion in order to assess mechanisms governing cardiac and hepatic lipid and glucose trafficking in subjects with type 2 diabetes with and without NAFLD and NASH and the relationship with heart function. In addition, the investigators will assess skeletal muscle and adipose tissue enzyme activities, gene expression and protein concentrations in type 2 diabetic subjects to define mechanisms involved in the cross-talk between heart, liver, muscle and adipose tissues. Investigators will address these questions using tracer techniques (11Cpalmitate PET tracers and triglyceride (TG) tracers) to study cardiac and liver substrate trafficking, as well as MR spectroscopy, echocardiography, muscle and fat biopsies in combination with state-of-the art muscle and adipose tissue enzyme kinetics, gene- and protein expression. The overarching goals are to define abnormalities and differences between NAFLD and NASH in hepatic lipid (FA and TG) metabolism.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.

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