DC Area Clinical Trial for Gulf War Veterans Now Recruiting Gulf War Veteran Paid Volunteers

 
Editor's note:  As of Feb. 1, 2012, recruitment is complete for this study.  No further study participants are being recruited.

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The purpose of this study is to determine if submaximal exercise by bicycle stress tests with pulmonary measurement of VO2MAX plus maximal isometric hand grips on 2 consecutive days causes a higher level of "exertional exhaustion" in GWI compared to healthy veterans (HVets)...
Date First Received: February 7, 2011
Last Updated: February 7, 2011
Verified by: Georgetown University, February 2011
Clinical Trial Phase: N/A | Start Date: July 2009
Overall Status: Recruiting
Estimated Enrollment: 80

Brief Summary

Condition Keyword(s):

• Gulf War Illness
• Persian Gulf Syndrome

Additional Keyword(s) Provided by Sponsor:

• Persian Gulf War
• Gulf War Syndrome
• GWI
• Gulf War Illness
• Exercise
• Chronic Fatigue
• Fibromyalgia
• Veterans
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Migraine headaches
• Neuropathy

Condition MeSH Term(s), Assigned with an Experimental Algorithm:

• Persian Gulf Syndrome

The purpose of this study is to determine if submaximal exercise by bicycle stress tests with pulmonary measurement of VO2MAX plus maximal isometric hand grips on 2 consecutive days causes a higher level of "exertional exhaustion" in GWI compared to healthy veterans (HVets).
Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
Study Primary Completion Date: September 2012

Arms, Groups and Cohorts in this Clinical Trial

• : GWI
  • Veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War who have autonomic, neurological and other symptoms
• : HC
  • Healthy veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War

Criteria for Participation in this Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria:

• Evidence of military enlistment between August 1, 1990 and July 31, 1991, and deployment for 30 consecutive days to:
• Persian Gulf waters and adjacent land areas
• Other global locations
• U.S. only
• Status prior to 1990 and 1991:
• Active duty
• National Guard
• Reserves

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current active duty military personnel
• Any one who was not active duty military personnel between August 1, 1990 and July 31, 1991
• HIV/AIDS; pregnancy or lactation; potential hepatitis; drug addiction; chronic inflammatory, infectious, or autoimmune medical illnesses not associated with GWI;
• incarceration; dementia, other cognitive limitation; or reliance on a care-giver in order to respond to the questionnaires and other study tests.
• Amputations of one or both hands and forearms will be permitted but hand grip tests will not be tested

Gender Eligibility for this Clinical Trial: Both
Minimum Age for this Clinical Trial: 38 Years
Maximum Age for this Clinical Trial: 86 Years
Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted for this Clinical Trial?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Clinical Trial Sponsor Information

Lead Sponsor: Georgetown University Other

Overall Clinical Trial Officials and Contacts

James N Baraniuk, MD Principal Investigator Georgetown University  
Overall Contact: Yin Zheng, MS 202-687-8231 gwiresearch@georgetown.edu

Related Publications

References

Gray GC, Reed RJ, Kaiser KS, Smith TC, Gastañaga VM. Self-reported symptoms and medical conditions among 11,868 Gulf War-era veterans: the Seabee Health Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2002 Jun 1;155(11):1033-44. Erratum in: Am J Epidemiol. 2005 Feb 1;161(3):302.
Baraniuk JN, Casado B, Maibach H, Clauw DJ, Pannell LK, Hess S S. A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - related proteome in human cerebrospinal fluid. BMC Neurol. 2005 Dec 1;5:22.
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Casado B, Zanone C, Annovazzi L, Iadarola P, Whalen G, Baraniuk JN. Urinary electrophoretic profiles from chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome/fibromyalgia patients: a pilot study for achieving their normalization. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2005 Jan 5;814(1):43-51.
Fukuda K, Nisenbaum R, Stewart G, Thompson WW, Robin L, Washko RM, Noah DL, Barrett DH, Randall B, Herwaldt BL, Mawle AC, Reeves WC. Chronic multisymptom illness affecting Air Force veterans of the Gulf War. JAMA. 1998 Sep 16;280(11):981-8.

Additional Information

Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on February 07, 2011
Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01291758
Study ID Number: 2009-229
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01291758
Health Authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
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