Macular Pigment Measurements in Eye & Other Tissues

RECRUITING

I'm interested ...!!

The purpose of this study is to understand the role of nutrition and its effects on the eye and other tissues. The investigators propose to study this by validating and correlating various non-invasive measurement methods of carotenoid concentrations in the human eye and skin tissue. A secondary objective is to correlate blood levels of carotenoids on a sub-set of participants.

Conditions:

🦠 Macular Pigmentation 🦠 Skin Pigment

🗓️ Study Start (Actual) June 2015

🗓️ Primary Completion (Estimated) June 2025

✅ Study Completion (Estimated) June 2025

👥 Enrollment (Estimated) 10000

🔬 Study Type INTERVENTIONAL

📊 Phase NA

Locations:

📍 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

📋 Eligibility Criteria

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

* Any patient age 7 or older, undergoing routine dilated ophthalmology examinations at the Moran Eye Center will be eligible to participate.
* Patients with adult vitelliform dystrophy. (This condition initially presents in adulthood as bilateral subtle and often asymptomatic macular lesions, which are often misdiagnosed as early age-related macular degeneration (AMD)).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients under age 7 will not be eligible to participate.

Ages Eligible for Study: 7 Years to N/A (CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

🗓️ Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted 11 January 2017
First Submitted that Met QC Criteria 12 January 2017
First Posted 16 January 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Submitted that Met QC Criteria 23 May 2024
Last Update Posted 24 May 2024
Last Verified May 2024