Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01874912
Human Irisin Concentration in Sarcopenia
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 406 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Korea University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 20 Years – 80 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Irisin has been identified as a novel myokine that drives brown-fat-like conversion of white adipose tissue. In this cross-sectional study, the researches investigated whether serum irisin levels are decreased in patients with sarcopenia compared with control subjects with normal muscle mass, and assessed the association between serum irisin levels and various metabolic parameters.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-04-01
- Completion
- 2011-04-01
- First posted
- 2013-06-11
- Last updated
- 2013-06-11
Locations
1 site across 1 country: South Korea
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01874912. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.