Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis of Not-celiac Wheat Sensitivity Patients
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抽象
描述
Gluten is the most important protein component of some grains, notably wheat, rye, and barley, which are the basis for a variety of wheat-derived alimentary products consumed throughout the world (bread, pasta, pizza etc). However the "engineering" of gluten-containing grains created the conditions for human diseases related to gluten exposure. These forms of gluten intolerance represent a heterogeneous set of conditions, including celiac disease, wheat allergy and gluten sensitivity, that, combined, seems to affect about 10% of the general population. The frequency of not-celiac gluten sensitivity is however still unknown, even though it is possible that this condition have been undiagnosed and under-diagnosed by the physicians for a long time. The immune responsiveness to wheat antigens represents a complex process, and its establishment and maintenance are not completely elucidated. The most frequent diseases caused by wheat ingestion are T cell-mediated disorders, i.e. celiac disease and immunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated allergic reactions. However, besides celiac disease and wheat allergy, there are cases of gluten reactions in which neither autoimmune nor IgE-mediated allergic mechanisms are involved. These are generally defined as gluten sensitivity. Some subjects, who experience symptoms when eating gluten-containing products and show improvement when following a gluten-free diet, may have gluten sensitivity instead of celiac disease or wheat allergy. Gluten sensitivity patients are unable to tolerate gluten and develop an adverse reaction when eating gluten, that, usually, and differently from celiac disease, does not lead to small intestinal damage. Gastrointestinal symptoms in gluten sensitivity patients may resemble those associated with celiac disease, but the overall clinical picture is generally less severe and is not accompanied by the occurrence of autoantibodies (i.e. anti-tissue transglutaminase, tTG, or anti-endomysium, EMA) or autoimmune disease (i.e. Hashimoto's thyroiditis). Typically, the diagnosis is made by exclusion, and an elimination diet and an "open challenge" (i.e., the monitored reintroduction of gluten-containing foods) are most often used to evaluate whether health improves or worsen with the elimination or reintroduction of gluten in the diet, respectively.
As it is not known what cereals components determine the symptoms in the so called gluten sensitivity patients, we prefer to define this condition as "wheat sensitivity" instead of "gluten sensitivity".
Wheat sensitivity can cause both gastrointestinal and extra-intestinal symptoms; among the latter, the patients often reported body's swelling (hands', fingers', arms' , face's swelling).
This study has two major aims:
1. Evaluation of the effective dependence from the wheat ingestion of the clinical alterations presented by patients with diagnosed gluten sensitivity, with particular attention to abdominal bloating and body's swelling. The study will be done after a period of gluten-free diet (at least 30 days), using a double-blind placebo-controlled challenge with wheat or placebo (xylose), performed by administering capsules coded as A or B containing wheat or xylose, respectively. Capsules A or B will be administered once, and then, after 1 week of washout, the patients received the other capsules, given once too.
2. Before and 2 hours after every challenge, patients will undergo a complete medical examination, and The investigators will perform bioelectrical impedance analysis and collect blood sampling, for identification of possible markers that may be of help to demonstrate and explain the mechanisms of the examined symptom.
日期
最后验证: | 08/31/2014 |
首次提交: | 01/03/2013 |
提交的预估入学人数: | 01/03/2013 |
首次发布: | 01/06/2013 |
上次提交的更新: | 09/13/2014 |
最近更新发布: | 09/15/2014 |
实际学习开始日期: | 12/31/2011 |
预计主要完成日期: | 09/30/2013 |
预计完成日期: | 11/30/2013 |
状况或疾病
干预/治疗
Dietary Supplement: wheat
Dietary Supplement: xylose
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手臂组
臂 | 干预/治疗 |
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Active Comparator: wheat wheat is administered blindly versus placebo in capsules once | |
Placebo Comparator: xylose placebo (xylose) will be administered blindly versus wheat in capsules once |
资格标准
有资格学习的年龄 | 18 Years 至 18 Years |
有资格学习的性别 | All |
接受健康志愿者 | 是 |
标准 | Inclusion Criteria: - Adult patients, both genders, with age between 18-65 years, with gastrointestinal symptoms/signs that improved on a gluten-free diet and worsen on a wheat containing diet - Patients testing negative for celiac disease (i.e. anti-tTG and EMA negative, and with biopsy Marsh 0-1) and wheat allergy (serum specific IgE for wheat negative) - gluten sensitivity diagnosis confirmed with a double-blind placebo-controlled challenge with gluten or placebo Exclusion Criteria: - Patients diagnosed with celiac disease (positive anti-tTG and/or EMA, and positive histology - (presence of villi atrophy); - Patients diagnosed with wheat allergy (positive serum specific IgE for wheat) - Patients suffering from Diabetes Mellitus - Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) - Patients with Helicobacter pylori infection and other gastrointestinal infection - Pregnancy |
结果
主要结果指标
1. Symptom evaluation [Change from baseline and at 2 hours]
次要成果指标
1. Bio-Markers evaluation [Change from baseline and at 2 hours]