study to evaluate nutritional losses in patients with kidney failure
Research type
Research Study
Full title
study to evaluate nutritional losses in patients with kidney failure
IRAS ID
228415
Contact name
A Davenport
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
UCL
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Z6364106/2017/09/13 clinical research, UCL Data Protection Registration
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 11 months, 29 days
Research summary
Patients with kidney failure are treated by dialysis. Unlike the healthy kidney which excretes waste products but retains essential nutrients, dialysis is unselective. If solutes are small enough to be removed by dialysis they will be removed. This will lead to potential nutritional losses. Proteins contain nitrogen.We wish to measure the amount of nitrogen lost in the waste dialysate to measure the losses in patients treated by dialysis, to better understand nutritional losses in kidney failure patients
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
17/NI/0196
Date of REC Opinion
8 Nov 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion