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Metformin IN Asthma for Overweight and Obese Individuals (MINA) (External Link)
This is a randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-arm pilot clinical trial. Adult participants who are overweight or obese and have not well-controlled asthma despite use of an inhaled corticosteroid will be randomized …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Recruiting
Integrating Food Rx With Best Feeding Practices With EFNEP (External Link)
The purpose of the pilot study is to test the FFYF feeding curriculum material and procedures for implementation, staff training, recruitment, and data collection.
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Food for Thought: Executive Functioning Around Eating Among Children (External Link)
Appetite self-regulation (ASR) has been described as involving children's use of eating-specific, "top-down" cognitive processes to moderate "bottom-up" biological drives to eat. Much of the research to date on ASR …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Recruiting
Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children (External Link)
High levels of food motivation among young children are heritable, track over time, and associated with elevated risks of unhealthy eating and obesity. Despite significant growth of family-based obesity prevention …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Recruiting
Efficacy Trial Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids for Hispanic Fathers and Children (External Link)
Hispanics in the United States face health disparities for obesity and related medical conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Targeting families to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors has been identified …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Diet and Exercise Plus Metformin to Treat Frailty in Obese Seniors (External Link)
The growing prevalence of obesity in older adults including many older Veterans, has become a major concern in the US already strained health care system in general and in the …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Completed
The i Heart Rhythm Project: Healthy Sleep and Behavioral Rhythms for Obesity Prevention (External Link)
The current study employs a 2 group randomized control design (treatment and no-treatment control) with randomization occurring after baseline (time 0) and 3 additional evaluation periods (end of intervention (time …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Glycine "Deficiency" and the Kinetics of Acylglycine in Morbid Obesity (External Link)
This study aims to evaluate the effects of oral glycine supplementation on plasma glycine concentration, intracellular glutathione (GSH) concentration, plasma acylglycine concentration, urine acylglycine concentration, and insulin resistance in subjects …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Recruiting
Genetic Disorders of Obesity Program Database (External Link)
Children and adolescents who have suffered from severe weight gain prior to 5 years of age and who are seen in the Genetic Disorders of Obesity Program at Texas Children …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Recruiting
Causal Mechanisms in Adolescent Arterial Stiffness (External Link)
Aortic stiffness measured in adolescence or adulthood determines current hypertension, predicts future incidence of hypertension, and future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events. International hypertension guidelines list severe aortic stiffness as …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor