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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02532335
Date of registration: 21/08/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
Public title: Obeticholic Acid in Morbidly Obese Patients and Healthy Volunteers OCAPUSH
Scientific title: Study of the Effects of Obeticholic Acid on Farnesoid X Receptor Expression in Jejunum and on Gut Microbiota in Morbidly Obese Patients and Healthy Volunteers
Date of first enrolment: August 2015
Target sample size: 40
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02532335
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Basic Science. Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).  
Phase:  Phase 1
Countries of recruitment
Sweden
Contacts
Name:     Hanns-Ulrich Marschall
Address: 
Telephone: +4670774073
Email: hanns-ulrich.marschall@gu.se
Affiliation: 
Name:     Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, MD, PhD, MSc
Address: 
Telephone: +46708774073
Email: hanns-ulrich.marschall@gu.se
Affiliation: 
Name:     Hanns-Ulrich Marschall
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Morbid obesity awaiting gastric bypass surgery, =35 kg/m2

Male subjects, pre-, and post-menopausal female subjects

Women of childbearing potential can only be included if a safe and reliable contraception
is used, e.g., oral contraceptives

Patients eligible to laparoscopic bariatric surgery

Patients must give their signed and dated written consent to participate in this study
based on written information of all pertinent aspects of the trial provided at least 24
hours before undertaking any trial related activity.

Exclusion Criteria:

Chronic liver disease other than NAFLD (viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease,
hemochromatosis, homozygous alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and Wilson disease)

Previous gastric or small bowel surgery

Inflammatory bowel disease

Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (fasting blood glucose >6.7 mmol/L), hypothyroidism or
hyperthyroidism, or other significant endocrine disease.

Pregnancy. A urine pregnancy test will be performed the day before start of medication.
Women of childbearing potential can only be included if a safe and reliable contraception
is used, e.g., oral contraceptives.

Elevations of transaminases (ALAT/ASAT) or alkaline phosphatase or bilirubin above 2xULN
(upper limit of normal) the day before start of medication.

Other serious disease, including depressive disorders treated by medication

Patients who will not comply with the protocol.

Hypothyroidism, unless the subject is clinically euthyroid, receiving a stable dose thyroid
hormone replacement therapy and serum TSH is within the normal range.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Obesity
Intervention(s)
Drug: Obeticholic acid placebo
Drug: Obeticholic acid
Primary Outcome(s)
ChIP-assay in biopsies as a measure of Activation of FXR-dependent genes in small intestine [Time Frame: Three weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Shot-gun metagenomics as a measure of Impact of FXR activation on gut microbiota [Time Frame: Three weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
OCAPUSH
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
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