Assessment of Nutritional Status in Rheumatic Diseases and Association to Disease Activity
NCT ID: NCT07277491
Last Updated: 2025-12-11
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
460 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2023-01-01
2025-12-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Nutritional status has been widely related to immunity; under-nutrition is associated with immunosuppression and increased susceptibility to infection whereas over-nutrition is associated with low-grade chronic inflammation increasing the risk and affecting the prognosis in metabolic, cardiovascular, and autoimmune diseases .
Patients with rheumatic diseases are prone to develop malnutrition as their medications often affect appetite, nutrient absorption and digestion.Despite the high incidence of malnutrition and its consequences, there is no universally accepted definition for diagnosing nutritional deficiencies, and nutritional assessment still relies on analyses of a combination of several anthropometric, biochemical, immunological, functional and body composition data, in addition to dietary intake and the evaluation of clinical status.
Four malnutrition diagnostic tools are currently used in adults: Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) ; Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) ; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition malnutrition consensus characteristics; and Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria.
Certain objective nutritional assessment indices reflect the immune nutritional status of patients, such as the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) ; and the nutritional risk index (NRI) which are calculated using serum albumin level and lymphocyte count, were found to be related to the nutritional status and disease activity in SLE patients .
Conditions
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Study Design
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OTHER
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Study Groups
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cases with different rheumatic diseases
135 patients with different rheumatic diseases who attended the outpatient Rheumatology Clinic, Cairo University Hospitals as well as the Health Insurance Hospital, Aswan Governorate Patients diagnosed with rheumatic diseases including RA,SpA,SLE and SSc were included
No interventions assigned to this group
control cases matched for age and sex
control cases selected from healthy volunteers matched for age and sex
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
2. Patients with other connective tissue diseases, neurological diseases, malignancy, heart failure or severe renal dysfunction was excluded, as these diseases affect the muscle mass causing sarcopenia.
3. Advanced liver diseases
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Cairo University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Reem Mahmoud Lotfy
Rheumatology Specialist
Principal Investigators
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Dina Ossama Abdulazim, assistant professor
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
Locations
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Department: Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
Cairo, , Egypt
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Reem Mahmoud Lotfy, Rheumatology Specialist
Role: CONTACT
Facility Contacts
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References
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Other Identifiers
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MD-66-2023
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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