Status:

WITHDRAWN

Cardiovascular Effects of Metformin on Obesity

Lead Sponsor:

University of California, San Francisco

Collaborating Sponsors:

US Department of Veterans Affairs

Conditions:

Insulin Resistance

Eligibility:

All Genders

12-17 years

Phase:

PHASE4

Brief Summary

It has been shown that asymptomatic obese adolescents can demonstrate abnormal regional myocardial contraction, with preserved global cardiac function. Metformin has been shown to decrease cardiovascu...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adolescents 12 to 17 years old under clinical care at the UCSF WATCH clinic
  • Body mass index\> 95th percentile for age and gender according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States
  • Insulin resistant after 6 months of healthy diet and exercise
  • Able to understand the assent form

Exclusion

  • Patients with known cardiac disease
  • Patients with contraindications to metformin as listed below:
  • Renal disease or renal (serum creatinine levels ≥1.5 mg/dL for males, and ≥1.4 mg/dL for females;
  • Known hypersensitivity to Metformin;
  • Acute or chronic metabolic acidosis;
  • Patients with contraindications to MRI including:
  • Cardiac pacemaker;
  • Claustrophobia;
  • Metallic foreign body in the eye,
  • Aneurysm clip in the brain
  • Pregnancy;
  • Patients who could not stay still for 30 minutes within the MRI scanner due to other reasons besides claustrophobia

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 1 2015

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

October 1 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01910246

Start Date

April 1 2015

End Date

October 1 2016

Last Update

December 11 2018

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UCSF, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

San Francisco, California, United States, 94143