Vascular Endothelium Changes After Bariatric Surgery (Endothelial Progenitor Cells) (EPC)

University of South Alabama (USA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments: Behavioral: pre-bariatric weight loss program; Procedure: bariatric surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01213940

10-131

Details and patient eligibility

About

Improvement in cardiovascular mortality is related to changes in pathologic autoantibodies and in the number of circulating functional replicative competent endothelial progenitor cells (EPC's) after bariatric surgery.

Full description

Same as above

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Type 2 Diabetes, Glucose > 200mg/dl, currently be ing treated with oral medications and HGA1c . 6.5, and BMI .35.

Exclusion criteria

• Type 1 Diabetes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

baratric surgery

Other group

Description:

surgery vs.weight loss program 6 months prior to bariatric surgery

Treatment:

Procedure: bariatric surgery

pre-bariatric weight loss program

Other group

Description:

weight loss program prior to bariatric surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: pre-bariatric weight loss program