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Register: JPRN
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2023
Main ID:  JPRN-UMIN000012503
Date of registration: 25/12/2013
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Department of Neurology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
Public title: Effect of creatine in SBMA patients: A double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study
Scientific title: Effect of creatine in SBMA patients: A double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study - Creatine in SBMA
Date of first enrolment: 2014/06/01
Target sample size: 45
Recruitment status: Complete: follow-up continuing
URL:  https://center6.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000014611
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Parallel Randomized  
Phase:  Not applicable
Countries of recruitment
Japan
Contacts
Name:     Yasuhiro Hijikata
Address:  65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550 Japan Japan
Telephone: 052-744-2390
Email: hijikata@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Name:     Gen Sobue
Address:  65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550 Japan Japan
Telephone: 052-744-2385
Email: sobueg@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Affiliation:  Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Neurology
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria: 1.Patients who have taken LH-RH agonists, an LH-RH antagonists, teststerone drugs, anti-androgen drugs, estrogen drugs or unapproved drug within 48 weeks before agreement acquisition and patients who have taken 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors within 24 weeks before agreement acquisition. 2. Patients whose serum testosterone level is below the lower limit of normal. 3. Patients who have taken creatine supplementation within 8 weeks before agreement acquisition 4. Patients who have severe complications 5. Patients who are not appropriate to participate in the trial

Age minimum: 20years-old
Age maximum: 80years-old
Gender: Male
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy
Intervention(s)
Creatine monohydrate 10 g, daily for 8 weeks
Creatine monohydrate 15 g, daily for 8 weeks
placebo for 8 weeks
Primary Outcome(s)
Grip power
Secondary Outcome(s)
(1) Muscle strength measured by quantitative muscle testing (2) Motor function: tongue pressure, Timed walk test, Rise from bed test, and modified QMG Score (3) Respiratory function test: vital capacity, forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume one second percent, peak expiratory flow and V50/V25 (4) Activities of daily living(ADL) assessed by ALSFRS-R and SBMAFRS questionnaires (5) Swallowing Disturbance Questionnaire (6) Quality of life questionnaires: SWAL-QOL and ALSAQ-5 (7) Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (8) Muscle mass measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (9) urinary 8-OHdG
Secondary ID(s)
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research, Nagoya University Hospital
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: YES
Approval date:
Contact:
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted:
Date Completed: 31/12/2015
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