Design and validation of a fasting mimicking diet
| ISRCTN | ISRCTN98404761 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN98404761 |
| Secondary identifying numbers | ICU-FM-I-2016-1-1-2 |
- Submission date
- 03/05/2017
- Registration date
- 17/05/2017
- Last edited
- 26/05/2020
- Recruitment status
- No longer recruiting
- Overall study status
- Completed
- Condition category
- Signs and Symptoms
Plain English Summary
Background and study aims
Critical illness is a state in which patients depend on drugs or machines to support or replace organ function to keep them alive and allow them to heal. Such patients are admitted to intensive care units (ICU) to receive care. Critically ill patients are at risk of losing muscle power due to due to the natural breakdown of tissue from inactivity. Short term fasting may be beneficial in the recovery of disease. Even in ICU, withholding intravenous nutrition (nutrition delivered through a drip) for one week, surprisingly, avoids complications and allows severely ill patients to recover faster and go home earlier. This study is aiming to see if these beneficial effects can be broadened beyond the first week of critical illness. The aim of this study is to design a new fasting mimicking diet in ICU (ICU-FM) based on cyclic feeding interruptions and look at its effects.
Who can participate?
Adult patients in ICU who are unable to eat by mouth.
What does the study involve?
Participants are randomly allocated to undergo 12 hours of receiving nutrition through a drip or straight into the gut followed by 12 hours of fasting, or 12 hours of fasting followed by 12 hours of receiving nutrition through a drip or straight into the gut. If the 12 hour time period is judged to be insufficient, then the process is repeated using 24 hour time periods. At the start of the study and then after 12 or 24 hours (depending on the time period used), participants have samples of blood collected to assess their health. In addition, participants have their medical records reviewed after 7 and 90 days to assess survival rates.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
There are no direct benefits or risks involved with participating.
Where is the study run from?
UZ Leuven (Belgium)
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
June 2016 to October 2017
Who is funding the study?
1. KU Leuven (Belgium)
2. Flanders Government FWO (Belgium)
Who is the main contact?
Dr Michael P. Casaer
michael.casaer@uzleuven.be
Contact information
Scientific
Clincial Department of Intensive Care Medicine
UZ Leuven
Herestraat 49
Leuven
3000
Belgium
 ORCID ID |
0000-0002-7087-0795 |
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| Phone | +32 16 34 87 86 |
| michael.casaer@uzleuven.be |
Study information
| Study design | Pilot randomised cross-over study |
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| Primary study design | Interventional |
| Secondary study design | Randomised cross over trial |
| Study setting(s) | Hospital |
| Study type | Treatment |
| Participant information sheet | Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet. Available in Dutch and French. |
| Scientific title | ICU-FM: Implementation into the intensive care unit (ICU) of the beneficial effects of fasting (mimicking diets) (FM) |
| Study acronym | ICU-FM-I |
| Study hypothesis | Twelve hours of nutrient restriction are sufficient to provoke a metabolic fasting response in critically ill patients, as reflected by increased plasma bilirubin and decreased insulin requirements. |
| Ethics approval(s) | Commissie Medische Ethiek UZ KU Leuven , 27/07/2016, ref: B322201629914 |
| Condition | Prolonged critical illness |
| Intervention | Participants are randomised by central computer in permuted blocks (size unknown to all involved) in a 1:1 ratio to either the 12/12 (or 24/24 if 12 hours would be not sufficient) caloric restriction (CR) regime followed by feeding or feeding followed by CR. All outcome assessors will be blinded for treatment allocation. Nutritional targets will be achieved by EN±PN, as appropriate with a full feeding target of 20-25 kcal/kg ideal body weight, a dosage defined by age (< or > 60 years) and gender. During fasting intervals, no nutrition will be administered, unless spontaneous hypoglycemia occurs. The intervention is thus to infuse enteral and/or parenteral nutrition as required to achieve nutritional target during a 12 hours (or in faze 2: 24 hours) interval on ICU day 8. This is followed by a 12 hours or 24 hours fasting. The sequence of this metabolic cross over experiment is determined by randomization. Plasma bilirubin, creatinine, BUN and glucose values and insulin requirements will be collected at study start, after the fasting window and after full feeding. Blood samples for evaluation of other changes in metabolism and cellular biology will be drawn likewise before and after the feeding and fasting interval. |
| Intervention type | Other |
| Primary outcome measure | 1. Plasma bilirubin is measured by colorimetric assay in the Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine at baseline and after the first and second intervention time window (12 hours or 24 hours according to the study phase) 2. Insulin requirements (total dose delivered over intervention time interval, this is the last 12 hours or 24 hours according to the study phase) are measured by reviewing the ICU-PDMS (Patient Data Management System [Metavision]) at baseline and after the first and the second intervention time window (this is after 12 hours and 24 hours in the first phase and eventually after 24 hours and 48 hours in the second phase of the study) |
| Secondary outcome measures | 1. Mortality is measured using data from the National Registry via Hospital Clinical Work Station (KWS) at 90 days 2. New ICU-Morbidity occurring in the first week after randomization is assessed by reviewing the ICU-PDMS (Patient Data Management System [Metavision]) at baseline and 7 days |
| Overall study start date | 01/06/2016 |
| Overall study end date | 01/10/2017 |
Eligibility
| Participant type(s) | Patient |
|---|---|
| Age group | Adult |
| Sex | Both |
| Target number of participants | 70 patients (and possibly another 70 patients fasted for 24 hours if 12 hours is not sufficient) |
| Total final enrolment | 70 |
| Participant inclusion criteria | 1. Adult ICU-patients 2. Unable to eat by mouth 3. Expected on day 7 to stay 3 more days in ICU |
| Participant exclusion criteria | 1. Patients with severe jaundice 2. Bilirubin > 5mg/dL, pregnant 3. Lactating patients |
| Recruitment start date | 01/06/2017 |
| Recruitment end date | 01/10/2017 |
Locations
Countries of recruitment
- Belgium
Study participating centre
Herestraat 49
Leuven
3000
Belgium
Sponsor information
University/education
Herestraat 49
Leuven
3000
Belgium
"ROR" |
https://ror.org/0424bsv16 |
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Funders
Funder type
Research organisation
Private sector organisation / Universities (academic only)
- Alternative name(s)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Location
- Belgium
No information available
Results and Publications
| Intention to publish date | 31/12/2019 |
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| Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share | No |
| IPD sharing plan summary | Not expected to be made available |
| Publication and dissemination plan | The results of this STEP-I pilot study will primarily serve the adequate design of ICU-FM-II, a clinical study exposing a larger group of patients to a longer time window of fasting mimicking versus normocaloric feeding. Publication of the results of this second study is planned in a high impact journal around 2019. |
| IPD sharing plan | The participant level data of this step I pilot metabolic cross over clinical experiment will not be publicly available. This would be a potential source of erroneous findings due to inadequate interpretation of the study design. The data will be stored in the research database of the Clinical Department and Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine and request for post-hoc analyses with a clearly defined research question and methodology can be sent to the investigators. This approach to avoid misinterpretation of complex data and databases has been proposed in a recent summit on data-sharing organized by the NEJM in April 2017. |
Study outputs
| Output type | Details | Date created | Date added | Peer reviewed? | Patient-facing? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Results article | results | 24/05/2020 | 26/05/2020 | Yes | No |
Editorial Notes
26/05/2020: The following changes were made to the trial record:
1. Publication reference added.
2. The total final enrolment was added.
22/09/2017: Internal review.
