Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00762879
Spine Quantitative Computed Tomography (QCT)
Spine Quantitative Computed Tomography (QCT) for the Assessment of Osteoporosis on Children
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 127 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 5 Years – 21 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare healthy children to children who have a chronic illness called Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). JIA is a childhood disease that causes swollen joints that are often stiff and painful. JIA affects about 1 in 1,000 children age 16 and younger.
Detailed description
Children with chronic illnesses are at risk for bone fragility due to inflammation, glucocorticoid therapy, physical activity limitation, malnutrition, and pubertal delay. The impact of low bone mass during childhood may be immediate, resulting in childhood fractures, or delayed, due to suboptimal peak bone mass attainment.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2008-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-01-01
- Completion
- 2017-06-01
- First posted
- 2008-09-30
- Last updated
- 2017-10-03
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00762879. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.