Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02526121
Effect of Therapeutic Phlebotomies on the Triglycerides Concentration in Patients With Hypertriglyceridemia and Hyperferritinemia
Effect of Therapeutic Phlebotomies on the Triglycerides Concentration in Patients With Hypertriglyceridemia and Hyperferritinemia.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Instituto Aragones de Ciencias de la Salud · Other Government
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of iron depletion with phlebotomies on blood triglyceride concentration, in subjects with hypertriglyceridemia and iron overload, compared with a dietary intervention alone. All subjects in this study will follow dietary and lifestyle counseling in a period of 3 months. A randomized group will receive phlebotomies every 3 weeks in this period.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | Phlebotomy | Volume of 400 mL every 3 weeks, 3 times. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Dietary and lifestyle counseling. | Dietary and lifestyle counseling. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-12-01
- Completion
- 2015-12-01
- First posted
- 2015-08-18
- Last updated
- 2016-08-30
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Spain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02526121. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.