Effects of Weight Loss on Portal Pressure in Patients With Overweight/Obesity and Cirrhosis

PHASE2CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

60

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 31, 2011

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2014

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2014

Conditions
Compensated CirrhosisObesity
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Diet + exercise

Program of dietary counselling by dietists, who will periodically follow-up the patient to achieve weight loss; moreover a fitness professional will instruct and train the patients twice a week to enhance their physical activity. A step counter will be also given to all participants and daily step count will be recorded. The duration of diet+exercise is 4 months from baseline HVPG measurement.

Trial Locations (6)

08036

Hospital Clinic, Barcelona

Unknown

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona

Hospital Vall D'Hebron, Barcelona

Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid

Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid

Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Consorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER)

OTHER_GOV

lead

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

OTHER

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