Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:22 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 10:22 PM
NCT ID:
NCT02502435
Brief Summary:
This study wishes to look at the 24-hour rhythm of certain fats in the blood stream. Recent studies in animals and healthy participants suggest that unusual eating habits may be connected to a change in the 24-hour rhythm of the blood fats the investigators wish to measure. The investigators will ask persons suffering from night eating syndrome, a condition where people eat additional meals throughout the night, to participate in this study. Healthy volunteers who are of the same age and gender, and have a comparable body-mass-index, a number calculated from a person's weight and height, will also be asked to participate.
The aim is to learn how the 24-hour rhythm of the blood fats the investigators measure differs between the persons experiencing the night eating episodes and persons who do not.
Detailed Description:
A disease mechanism driving the clinical symptomology of the Night Eating Syndrome (NES) may be a metabolome, polyunsaturated fatty acids in particular, disrupted in its oscillations throughout the course of day and night. Blood and stool samples will be repeatedly taken during a 3-night/2-day protocol from NES patients and healthy controls with lights dimmed to 20 lux and time cues removed. Body core temperature and physical activity during the study will be monitored continuously.
Study:
NCT02502435
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02502435