A Study to Improve Skeletal Muscle in Veterans With HIV
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
HIV
Obesity
At a Glance
- Age
- 20 – 80
- Sex
- Male
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Treatment
- Participants needed
- 70 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
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About This Trial
The Department of Veterans Affairs is the largest single provider of medical care to people with HIV in the United States. The condition of excess lipid within and around muscle, termed myosteatosis, predisposes Veterans to physical function decline, frailty, disability, and cardiometabolic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In the investigators current Merit supported cohort, t…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* Veteran
* HIV+
* antiretroviral therapy = integrase strand transfer inhibitor for at least 3 months
* HIV-1 RNA \<50 copies/ml
* age = 20 yrs
* BMI 28-50 kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria:
* unstable body weight (gain or loss \> 5% over past 3 months)
* diagnosed mitochondrial disord…
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