Pre-analytical Sample Handling Conditions and Their Effects on the Human Urine Metabolome

March 1, 2017 updated by: David Baer, USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
This study evaluates how urine handling conditions can affect the concentrations of ~1,000 urine metabolites and attempts to quantify the degree of attenuation and/or potential bias in epidemiologic associations that may result from less than optimal sample handling conditions.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Detailed Description

Metabolomics, the simultaneous quantification of concentrations of hundreds or thousands of metabolites simultaneously in a biological matrix, is a versatile analytical technique capable of accelerating biomarker-based discoveries in nutritional science. Recently, metabolomics has been applied to samples collected in feeding studies (1) and epidemiologic studies (2) to identify dozens of novel potential dietary biomarkers. Several large prospective cohort studies, many of which are collaborating in a metabolomics consortium led by the National Cancer Institute, have recently applied metabolomics to banked samples. This has made nutrition-related biomarkers suddenly available for tens of thousands of participants with follow-up for disease endpoints, enabling truly large-scale nutritional biomarkers and disease studies.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

13

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Maryland
      • Beltsville, Maryland, United States, 20705
        • USDA-ARS, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Men and women will be recruited from the area surrounding the BHNRC. There are several thousand government and privately employed workers located within a 10-mile radius of the BHNRC and several residential communities from which a cohort of volunteers will be recruited. The population includes an ethnically diverse group of subjects.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 20 to 65 years at beginning of study.
  • BMI between 18.5 and 35.0 kg/m2.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Presence of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, liver disease, gout, hyperthyroidism, untreated or unstable hypothyroidism, certain cancers, gastrointestinal disease, pancreatic disease, other metabolic diseases, or malabsorption syndromes.
  • Unable or unwilling to give informed consent or communicate with study staff.
  • Other medical, psychiatric, or behavioral factors that in the judgment of the Principal Investigator may interfere with study participation or the ability to follow the intervention protocol.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Selected intensity of biochemicals identified from liquid and gas chromatography with mass ranging from 50 to 800 molecular weight.
Time Frame: on day one
Urine metabolomics profiling will be conducted at Metabolon, Inc. after the urine has been handled in a number of different ways (placed into tubes with various additives, refrigerated for different lengths of time, and frozen and thawed various numbers of times)
on day one

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

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 Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 27, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 27, 2017

Study Completion (Actual)

February 27, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 21, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 21, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

February 24, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 3, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 1, 2017

Last Verified

March 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • HS56

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Subscribe