Detection of Muscle Quality in Children - Protocol for a Validation Study

Charles University, Czech Republic

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Ultrasonography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06792279

EK 101/2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of ultrasound echo intensity (EI) as a diagnostic tool for assessing muscle quality in children aged 10-14 years, including normal-weight, obese, and trained young athletes. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Can EI reliably and accurately measure muscle quality in children when validated against gold-standard techniques like DXA and isokinetic dynamometry? What are the age-, sex-, and fitness-specific benchmarks for EI to differentiate between normal and pathological muscle quality?

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Generally healthy children

Exclusion criteria

• Acute illnesses
• Chronic or acute diseases of the endocrine or musculoskeletal systems
• Post-traumatic conditions