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* Rationale: Glucose control in patients with kidney disease is challenging, as traditional metrics can be unreliable and there is a high risk of hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Although RT-CGM has shown benefits in other groups, its efficacy in patients with advanced kidney damage needs to be validated to improve their quality of life and prevent disease progression. * Main objective: To determine whether the use of RT-CGM is more effective than usual care (capillary blood glucose monitoring with a glucometer) in maintaining patients within an optimal glucose range (70-180 mg/dL) over a three-month period. * Study population: We plan to include 30 patients over 18 years of age with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (with a glomerular filtration rate less than 60 ml/min), who use insulin and are not on renal replacement therapy such as dialysis. * Methodology: The study is a randomized clinical trial consisting of two phases: 1. Selection period (15 days): Blinded monitoring is performed to obtain baseline data. 2. Treatment period (90 days): Patients are divided into two groups: the intervention group, which will use the CGM-RT with alarms configured for high and low levels, and the control group, which will continue with traditional fingerstick monitoring. * Metrics to be evaluated: In addition to time in range, researchers will analyze episodes of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, glycemic variability, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, and device accuracy. * Ethical and logistical considerations: The study complies with international and national regulations, guaranteeing the confidentiality and autonomy of the participants. The project has a 24-month timeline and a detailed budget to cover medical personnel, monitoring sensors (Sinocare i3), and laboratory tests.
The goal of this intervention study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of multiple doses of MKP10241 in obese participants with and without T2DM in 3 parts. The main parameters it aims to answers are : 1. Does food effects the pharmacokinetic parameters following a single dose of MKP10241 in healthy participants? 2. Will multiple ascending doses of MKP10241 in obese participants with or without T2DM characterize changes in the plasma pharmacokinetic profile and pharmacodynamic effects? 3. What treatment emergent adverse events or discontinuation is experienced following single and multiple ascending doses of MKP10241 in healthy and obese participants with or without T2DM? This study will be compared against a placebo which is matched in appearance to MKP10241 at dosage strengths. Participants will: 1. Part 1: Take MKP10241 400 mg or Placebo on Day 1 and Day 8. Part 2: Take MKP10241 200 mg, 300 mg and 400 mg or Placebo daily from Day 1 to Day 28 Part 3: Take MKP10241 300 mg and 400 mg or Placebo daily from Day 1 to Day 28 2. Visit the clinical research unit for dose administration, admission or follow up. 3. Will be monitored by the Safety Monitoring Committee.
A cohort study on patients with type 2 diabetes to investigate possible biomarkers as predictors of chronic heart failure.
The objective of this study is to evaluate feasibility, safety, and efficacy of endoscopic DMR Treatment Paradigm 1 (compared to sham) and to evaluate feasibility, safety, and efficacy of re-treatment with DMR at 24 weeks (compared to baseline and a single DMR procedure) in patients with type 2 diabetes with non-insulin glucose lowering medications.
The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to learn if GlucoBites functional cookies containing Gynura procumbens can help improve blood sugar control and lower the risk of diabetic foot ulcers in adults with type 2 diabetes. The main questions are: * Do GlucoBites cookies lower fasting blood glucose and HbA1c? * Do GlucoBites cookies improve insulin resistance and vascular health? * Can GlucoBites reduce early signs that may lead to diabetic foot ulcers? Researchers will compare: * Intervention group: participants will eat 4 GlucoBites cookies every day for 12 weeks. * Control group: participants will continue standard diabetes care without GlucoBites. Participants will: * Visit the community health center for blood tests and foot health checks. * Be monitored for blood sugar, insulin resistance, lipid profile, and vascular function. * Be assessed for early risk of diabetic foot ulcer development. This study will help determine if a functional food innovation can support diabetes care and prevent complications.
Diabetes can lead to heart failure independently, but the underlying causes remain incompletely understood. The main aim of this study is to identify differential regulation of mitochondrial substrate utilization and complex activity in heart failure and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). For this, we will conduct a prospective, observational study to examine myocardial mitochondrial oxidative function and related metabolic parameters, gene expression, histological markers, and inflammation in cardiac tissue from patients with heart failure or patients after heart transplantation. We will further assess cardiac function using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging with and without stress protocols and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Glycemic control/T2DM will be characterized by oral glucose tolerance tests. The results of this project will help to better understand the cellular mechanisms of the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy and contribute to the development of early diagnostic, as well as therapeutic approaches for the prevention and treatment of diabetic cardiomyopathy.
This study aims to test whether a communication strategy called "linguistic nudging" can help doctors and patients with type 2 diabetes make better treatment decisions together, and whether this improves patients' ability to manage their condition. What will happen in the study? - 250 adults with type 2 diabetes from Xiang'an Hospital (Xiamen) will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: Intervention group:Doctors will receive special training in "linguistic nudging" techniques to encourage shared decision-making. Patients will use a mobile app to record medication preferences, and doctors will adjust advice based on these preferences. Control group:Patients will receive standard diabetes care without these additional strategies. \- All participants will be followed for 6 months. What is the study aiming to find out? The main goal is to see if patients in the intervention group: Better follow medication plans Improve blood sugar monitoring Have better blood sugar control Feel more satisfied with doctor-patient communication Why is this important? Good self-management is key to controlling diabetes, but many patients struggle with it. Effective communication during shared decision-making may empower patients to manage their condition day-to-day with greater confidence. Patient safety and rights: Participation is completely voluntary All personal information will be kept strictly confidential Medical support will be provided if any health problems occur during the study Participants may withdraw at any time This research has been approved by the Ethics Committee of Xiang'an Hospital (Approval date: October 2025).
This is a prospective, multi-center, randomized controlled trial to compare Billroth II reconstruction versus conventional Roux-en-Y reconstruction versus long limb Roux-en-Y reconstruction for glycemic control in patients with concurrent type 2 diabetes and gastric cancer.
Multimorbidity is a significant issue for many patients with difficult asthma. With patients, we have co-designed a multimodal intervention comprising prescribed exercise, dietary support, breathing pattern retraining and behaviour change to target multimorbidity in difficult asthma
The goal of this observational study is to determine the prevalence of remission among adults with mild-to-moderate asthma, as well as the factors associated with remission in Thailand. The main question the study aims to answer is: What is the prevalence of remission among adults with severe asthma in Thailand? Participants will complete a questionnaire on asthma symptoms and undergo pulmonary function testing and a blood test once.
Research is being conducted into chronic respiratory diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, interstitial lung disease, and bronchiectasis. The investigation specifically focuses on sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in individuals with chronic respiratory disease. SDB encompasses a range of conditions, the most common of which is obstructive sleep apnoea. In obstructive sleep apnoea, periodic pauses in breathing (apnoea) lead to reduced blood oxygen levels. To detect these events, patients typically undergo sleep studies that involve monitoring oxygen saturation, heart rate, and respiratory patterns during sleep. When chronic respiratory disease and SDB coexist, breathing disturbances during sleep may be exacerbated. To identify SDB, sleep studies are commonly used to assess oxygen levels, heart rate, and breathing patterns. The objective of this research is to identify differences between patients with chronic respiratory diseases who have SDB and those who do not. This will be achieved by analysing sleep study data using a novel analytical approach. The aim is to determine whether this method can yield more detailed insights into the underlying pathophysiology of these conditions.
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if community-based exercise training can benefit patients aged 18 to 85 with diminished cardiovascular and pulmonary function. The main aim of this study is: • Establish a community or home-based fitness training program for patients with cardiopulmonary insufficiency to improve adherence, safety, and efficacy while alleviating the burden on both patients and society. Researchers will compare community-based exercise training to non-exercise training to see if community-based exercise training works to improve cardiovascular and pulmonary function. Participants will: * Engage in community or home exercise training for 40-60 minutes, five times weekly, during a duration of eight weeks. Exercise modalities are primarily determined by the patients' individual preferences and habits, such as brisk walking, running, swimming, cycling, and hiking. * Adjust the exercise intensity according to their cardiopulmonary exercise test and the person's perceived exertion level. * Utilize fitness bracelets or watches to document statistics during workouts and submit them to the experimenter weekly, covering the five days of exercise within that week. * refrain from making any dietary modifications throughout the trial.
Acute asthma exacerbations are an important public health problem and a major cause of disease progression and healthcare burden for people with asthma. Frequent acute exacerbations are likely to be a distinct asthma phenotype. Further research is needed to identify risk factors for frequent acute exacerbations, but previous studies have mostly been cross-sectional studies at a single time point or prospective studies based on smaller sample sizes. Moreover, most of the studies on frequent acute exacerbations have been conducted in severe or refractory asthma, whereas a certain proportion of non-severe asthmatics may also experience frequent acute exacerbations, the risk factors of which remain to be further evaluated. The main objectives of this project are to compare the baseline clinical, inflammatory, pathophysiological, comorbidities, environmental pollutants and meteorological exposure characteristics of patients with frequent acute exacerbations and those with non-frequent acute exacerbations irrespective of asthma severity, and to develop a disease prediction model for frequent acute exacerbations; and to develop a cohort of patients with frequent acute exacerbations of asthma, observe their prognosis and response to treatment, and search for prognostic factors associated with them. The successful implementation of this study will help in the early identification of patients with frequent acute exacerbations, clarify the factors associated with poor prognosis in this group of patients, and thus provide an individualized plan for the treatment and prevention of this type of patients, which is of great significance in achieving good asthma control, reducing the burden of disease, decreasing the cost of healthcare, and saving clinical healthcare resources and costs.
Chronic inflammatory pulmonary diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis (CF), primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) and interstitial lung diseases (ILD) are characterised by lung inflammation and remodelling. Clinical, functional, microbiological, biological, pathological and prognostic features are highly variable and heterogeneous. Several phenotypes have been described within the same pathology, as similar phenotypic traits between different pathologies, or the coexistence of components of several diagnoses in the same patient, suggesting shared underlying mechanisms that could represent new therapeutic targets, beyond the initial medical diagnosis. The objectives of this prospective study are to analyze the phenotypic characteristics (clinical, demographic, biological, morphological, pathological, and microbiological characteristics) together with respiratory exposures and underlying mechanisms involving airway epithelium and inflammation processes in a cohort of patients diagnosed with asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, CF, PCD and ILD.
The aim of this project is to study the effect of an intragastric balloon (IGB) on asthma control in obese patients. Obese patients with uncontrolled asthma will be recruited and randomly assigned to two intervention arms : an intragastric balloon combined with diet and exercise versus diet and exercise alone (control group). The primary endpoint will be the proportion of patients with an improvement based on an Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ) score ≥ 0.5 at 1 year compared to baseline.
The goal of this intervention study is to assess the effectiveness of low-cost humidity and mold reduction interventions in the home for reducing pediatric asthma. The study will have two groups, a treatment group that receives the healthy home interventions during the study and a second control group that will receive these after the study. We will compare pediatric asthma before and three months after the healthy home interventions are performed.
This is the registry of control participants for patients with various respiratory diseases. We screened healthy volunteers who visited Seoul National Hospital Healthcare System Gangnam Center for routine health check-up, and enrolled patients who agree to participate in the study. The participants undergo baseline questionnaires, provide blood specimen and information of the results of health check-up. We will include participants as controls if they have no significant respiratory symptom and no significant radiographic abnormality. The data from this registry will be compared with those from other registry of various respiratory diseases
This is a randomized clinical trial of metformin among overweight or obese adults with not well-controlled asthma despite maintenance inhaler therapy.
Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) affect approximately 30% of the adult global population, significantly impacting respiratory function and quality of life. Pulmonary and cardiovascular rehabilitation has proven to be an effective therapeutic intervention for managing respiratory symptoms and cardiovascular and improving functional capacity in patients with chronic respiratory conditions. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of the pulmonary and cardiovascular rehabilitation program on users of the physical therapy service of CECOM of UNICAMP related to functional capacity, quality of life and respiratory variables after 3 months of the program. Candidates for the pulmonary rehabilitation program are users diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma or other lung disease. Candidates for the cardiovascular rehabilitation program are users diagnosed with: infarction (AMI), myocardial revascularization surgery, coronary angioplasty, stable angina, valve replacement, chronic heart failure and who meet the criteria for phase III of cardiovascular rehabilitation. They should be referred to physical therapy by the cardiologist with complementary exams and exercise test. The program's assessment will consist of: anamnesis, analysis and recording of complementary exams, physical assessment (weight, height, BMI, cardiac and pulmonary auscultation, blood pressure, heart rate, peripheral oxygen saturation, respiratory muscle strength), functional capacity (six-minute walk test) and quality of life (questionnaire). The program will include aerobic exercises on a treadmill or stationary bike with an intensity between 50-70% of the reserve HR, below the ischemic thresholds. It will also include peripheral muscle strength exercises for the upper and lower limbs, in addition to respiratory muscle training for lung disease patients.
Spirometry is now the gold standard technique for assessing lung function in humans. From the shape of a flow-volume curve measured while the patient, trained by the practitioner, performs forced breaths, the forced vital capacity (FVC) and the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) can be deduced and the pulmonologist is able to detect and characterize respiratory diseases as well as to evaluate current treatments. This technique is non-invasive and simple. It is widely available, robust, reproducible and sensitive to intervention. However, it requires proactive cooperation from the patient and only measures global pulmonary ventilation, without locoregional information. An innovative strategy and an original study framework have been developed in the BioMaps laboratory to establish local maps of flow-volume curves across the lung and to jointly analyze ventilatory function and mechanical behavior at any point in the lung: 3D magnetic resonance spirometry. As respiratory mechanics fundamentally supports ventilatory function, this technique should open a new avenue to non-invasively explore lung function while providing a better diagnosis of regional lung diseases.