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Register: ISRCTN
Last refreshed on: 13 January 2015
Main ID:  ISRCTN34566366
Date of registration: 23/01/2004
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: NHS R&D Regional Programme Register - Department of Health (UK)
Public title: Vitamin K deficiency in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis in primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)
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Date of first enrolment: 01/10/1998
Target sample size: 60
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://isrctn.com/ISRCTN34566366
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Randomised controlled trial (Prevention)  
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Contacts
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Affiliation: 
Name: Dermot    Gleeson
Address:  Department of Gastroenterology Royal Hallamshire Hospital Glossop Road S10 2JF Sheffield United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)114 271 2832
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Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Sixty out-patients with PBC will be recruited from the Royal Hallamshire Hospital Liver Service.
Exclusion criteria: Not provided at time of registration

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Gender: Not Specified
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Osteoporosis
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Osteoporosis and primary biliary cirrhosis
Intervention(s)
i. Vitamin K supplementation
ii. No vitamin K supplementation
Primary Outcome(s)
Should Vitamin K supplementation be found to alter the course of bone loss in PBC patients it would provide a very cost effective therapeutic intervention. The research may have additional implications for healthcare provision in other areas of metabolic bone disease.
Secondary Outcome(s)
Not provided at time of registration
Secondary ID(s)
RBF 98X36
Source(s) of Monetary Support
NHS Executive Trent, UK
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
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