13 Clinical Trials for Various Conditions
Primary Objective: 1. To use the results from this pilot study to estimate the effect size of the nutritional intervention on fatigue and caloric intake. Secondary Objectives: 1. To apply nutritional assessment tools for early detection of patients at risk for malnutrition. 2. To examine the feasibility of conducting this intervention study. 3. To describe cancer-related fatigue patterns among BMT patients at multiple time points during ambulatory visits. 4. To evaluate the effects of a nutritional intervention for post-allogeneic BMT recipients on adequacy of caloric intake in order to improve cancer-related fatigue scores.
The purpose of this study is to assess the validity of the PortionSize™ app to quantify children's own dietary intake and children's intake by parents or caregivers.
Information about Americans food choices and opinions helps researchers and law makers to develop policies and programs to promote health. For this reason, it is important to be able to collect good quality information about how people think about food. This project will compare different ways of collecting information about food from adults.
This trial studies how well comprehensive nutritional geriatric assessments work in identifying malnutrition in older cancer participants. Comprehensive nutritional geriatric assessments may help doctors learn about ways to check for malnutrition (loss of weight/appetite that may result in health problems) that is due to cancer or cancer treatment.
This is a Phase IV randomized controlled study assessing the effectiveness of a commercially available nutritional supplement on malnourished prevalent hemodialysis patients. Patients will be randomized to either receive one can of Nepro with Carb Steady at each dialysis treatment for 6 months or to receive the standard of care counseling for malnutrition. The primary hypothesis is that hypoalbuminemic maintenance hemodialysis patients will demonstrate an improvement in albumin levels with oral nutritional supplement provided in-center thrice weekly in addition to standard of care as compared to malnourished maintenance hemodialysis patients provided standard of care alone.
Patients with esophageal and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer often have weight loss, swallowing problems, and poor appetite. This may affect their ability to tolerate cancer treatment. The purpose of this study is to see if the researchers can apply a set of nutrition guidelines designed specifically for patients with cancer who are older than 65 years of age. The questions will allow them to assess the nutritional status and make appropriate referrals. If the patients are having swallowing problems or losing weight, the researchers want to address the nutritional problems early in the course of their treatment.
Nestle Impact has shown efficacy in multiple surgical trials in relation to improving hospital length of stay and infection rate. 1 dose of Nestle Impact Advanced Recovery will be taken orally three times a day beginning on the morning following stem cell transplant and will continue until the day of hospital discharge.
This is a single center, randomized, double-blind, cross-over trial (with a follow-on single-blind safety evaluation stage), assessing a ready-to-drink nutritional supplement used without PERT ("PERT-free"), nutritional supplement for blood lipid levels, safety and tolerability compared to a standard of care nutritional supplement used concomitantly with PERT.
The goals of this study are: To assess the impact of genetic testing for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) on lifestyle behaviors as measured by systemic and ocular carotenoid status.
Malnutrition is a serious problem in patients undergoing major surgeries and has a direct association with increased morbidity, mortality, length of stay (LOS), increased readmissions and cost of care. Studies suggest several advantages of supplementation with protein or specific amino acids in malnourished patients. Dietary leucine or its metabolite β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate (HMB) can improve skeletal muscle mass and function by increasing transcriptional level of protein synthase, while other high protein or amino acids like Glutamine or Arginine supplements only provide protein-amino acids pool for patients while body's preferred fuel during metabolic stress is endogens protein, rather than exogenous diet. In this study the investigators seek to achieve two distinct goals: 1. Determine the patients' nutritional status before and after major surgeries by baseline and subsequent nutritional assessments, according to ASPEN's criteria. In addition, the investigators were going to use indirect calorimetry to determine the Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) in different phases of pre- and postoperative periods. The investigators also propose to compare different serum protein markers and their ratios in order to correlate them with ASPEN's criteria for nutritional status quantification. In Summary, three discrete tools including ASPEN's criteria, indirect calorimetry, and serum biomarkers are going to be used in conjunction with each other to delineate the patients' nutritional status in various pre- and post-operative periods. 2. Patients undergoing major surgeries were supplemented with high protein with ß-hydroxy ß-methylbutyrate (HMB) (Ensure, Envile) or HMB only as a control, in order to improve their nutritional status and improve postoperative outcomes. The investigators looked for depict meaningful improvements in surgical outcomes by nutritional supplementation with or without HMB.
The investigators have previously observed a reduced level of platelet aggregation 2 hours after healthy male individuals were asked to drink extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) that provided a higher level of one specific phenolic known as oleocanthal. This study will help the investigators further determine the effects of oleocanthal-rich EVOO intake on platelet function at 2, 4 and 6 hours after intake with food compared to platelet function in the morning after an overnight fast.
The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of cooked navy bean powder or rice bran consumption on the stool microbiome and metabolome of colorectal cancer survivors and healthy adults.
Any time the words "you," "your," "I," or "me" appear, it is meant to apply to the potential participant. The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if regular exercise and behavioral skills training can help to improve physical activity in patients with pancreatic cancer who are scheduled to receive chemotherapy and/or radiation before standard-of-care surgery. This is an investigational study. Up to 128 participants will be enrolled on this study. All will take part at MD Anderson.