Deep Phenotyping of Peripheral Blood Cells and Circulating Factors in Metabolic Diseases
Technische Universität Dresden
180 participants
Oct 16, 2023
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Summary
The goal of this cross-sectional observational study is to to perform a thorough characterization of the quantitative and qualitative differences in peripheral blood cells, and circulating factors (proteins, metabolites, lipids, extracellular vesicles) in different stages of several metabolic diseases (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) that share common pathophysiological mechanisms and in comparison with adult healthy controls. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: * Which are the quantitative (number and concentration) and qualtitative (characteristics, functional assays) differences in platelets in patients with metabolic diseases vs subjects without metabolic diseases * Which are the quantitative (number and concentration) and qualtitative (characteristics, functional assays) differences in leucocytes or circulating molecules in patients with metabolic diseases vs subjects without metabolic diseases
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Interventions
75g of a standardized glucose solution followed by blood draw at 0, 30, 60, 90, 120 min
A crude assessment of liver status in order to identify the presence of steatosis or not will take place with ultrasound.
FibroScan non-invasively measures the stiffness of the liver by capturing and calculating the speed of a shear wave as it travels through the liver (vibration controlled transient elastography).
The exact calculation of liver fat with proton density fat fraction will take place with MRI.
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NCT06396871