Pediatric Metabolism and Microbiome Repository (PMMR)

Duke University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT02959034

1R24DK110492-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Pro00074547

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this project is to establish a bio-repository of diverse specimen types to provide investigators access to specimens in order to further research related to metabolism and the microbiome in the pediatric population.

Full description

Human microbial cell lines, stool and/or DNA and RNA will be collected from participants 10-18 years with a BMI greater than 95th percentile and their healthy siblings.

Specimens will be collected at 3 time points over a seven month period. Healthy siblings will provide just one blood and stool sample. Samples will be maintained at the Duke Medical Science Research Laboratory.

Enrollment

486 patients

Sex

All

Ages

10 to 23 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients of the Healthy Lifestyles Program at Duke for the care of children with obesity, a sibling of a patient in the Healthy Lifestyles Program, or is a patient at Duke Children's Primary Care.

Exclusion criteria