Assessment of Nutritional Status and Role of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 in Children

Menoufia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thalassemia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05529550

insulin-like growth factor-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many studies done on children with thalassemia have shown a variable prevalence of defective IGF-I concentrations have been shown to be low in the majority of children, with or without GH deficiency. The Aim of this study to assess nutritional status and role of Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and its associating factors in children with thalassemia major

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children in the age group of 2-18 years with confirmed diagnosis of Beta thalassemia major.

Exclusion criteria

• Children with other chronic diseases (cardiac, renal, vascular)
• Children with malignancy

Trial design

102 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients

Description:

67 children in the age group of 2-18 years with confirmed diagnosis of Beta thalassemia major.

Healthy control

Description:

35 healthy children