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This research study is being done to help researchers develop new dietary options for menopausal women to maintain a healthy weight by developing more nutritious snacks that have health benefits. From this study, the researchers hope to gain understanding on how menopausal women with metabolic syndrome digest and absorb foods with safflower oil on its own and when combined with soy. The research team hypothesize that the two different types of pretzels may be processed by your body differently and that components in the pretzel snacks may be helpful for preventing diseases like obesity and cancer. Safflower oil and soybeans contain many natural chemicals that may benefit human health. However, this relationship is not well understood. This study will look at the impact of the pretzel snacks on your blood fat and glucose levels as well as a group of chemicals found in soy called "isoflavones". Isoflavones are natural chemicals found commonly in soybeans or foods made from them. Participants will be screened to determine if they qualify in meeting the study requirements. Participants cannot have a known allergy to dairy, soy, safflower oil, or wheat protein. Also, participants will be asked to stop eating legumes (beans, peas, soy protein, sprouts and peanuts) and to document the oils they eat for the entire 14 weeks of this study. The study will require five visits to the Ohio State University Clinical Research Center (CRC) which part of the Ohio State University's Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences. Once the investigators have determined that you qualify for this study and you decide to participate, you will be consuming three different pretzels each for one month, starting with a control pretzel. After the control pretzel treatment period, you will be randomly assigned (like the "flip of a coin") to start with one of the two pretzel groups (wheat or soy pretzel with safflower oil) for your first treatment period and then switch to the other safflower oil pretzel at your second treatment period.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:45 - 70
Sex:Female

20 Participants Needed

The main purpose of this study is to see how well and how safely bimagrumab, tirzepatide, and the combination, work in lowering body weight in participants with obesity or overweight and type 2 diabetes. Participation in the study will last about 13 months.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

180 Participants Needed

The main purpose of this study is to see how orforglipron affects the amount of body fat compared with placebo in participants with obesity or overweight. Participation in the study will last approximately 8 months.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 1

120 Participants Needed

This trial is testing a weight-loss medication called tirzepatide in teenagers who are overweight or obese and have other health problems related to their weight. The study will last about two years and involve multiple visits. Tirzepatide is effective in treating obesity in patients with and without diabetes.
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Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:12 - 17

150 Participants Needed

This trial is testing tirzepatide, a medication that helps control blood sugar and reduce appetite, to see if it can lower health problems and death rates in adults who are very overweight. Tirzepatide was developed by Eli Lilly to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 2 diabetes.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:40+

15374 Participants Needed

This trial is testing AMG 133, a new drug, to see if it helps people lose weight and keep it off. It targets overweight or obese individuals, both with and without Type 2 diabetes. The drug may work by affecting metabolism or appetite.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

592 Participants Needed

The main purpose of this study is to find out how well and how safely tirzepatide works in adults who have type 1 diabetes and obesity or overweight. Participation in the study will last about 49 weeks.
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Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

905 Participants Needed

The main aim of the study is to assess the effect of RO7204239 in combination with tirzepatide, compared to placebo in combination with tirzepatide, on body weight loss after 48 weeks of treatment in adults with obesity or overweight with at least one weight-related comorbidity, but without diabetes mellitus (DM). The study comprises of a 4-week screening period; a 48-week core treatment period, where all participants will receive tirzepatide as background treatment and will be randomized to one of the 4 treatment arms; a 24-week treatment extension period, where participants will stop treatment with tirzepatide and a 24-week post-treatment follow-up (FU) period.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

234 Participants Needed

This trial is testing retatrutide, a medication for people with type 2 diabetes who are overweight or obese, including some with sleep apnea. The medication aims to help control blood sugar levels and may also aid in weight loss.
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Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

1000 Participants Needed

This trial tests HALO, a program where parents help their children aged 6-12 adopt healthier habits. It targets kids whose mothers are losing weight after weight-loss surgery, leveraging the parents' motivation to change.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:6+
Sex:Female

50 Participants Needed

LY3549492 for Obesity

Cincinnati, Ohio
The main purpose of this study, performed under the master protocol W8M-MC-CWMM (NCT06143956), is to evaluate the effects of LY3549492 in adults with obesity or overweight. Participation in the study will last about one year.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

275 Participants Needed

The main purpose of this study, performed under the master protocol W8M-MC-CWMM (NCT06143956), is to investigate the safety and efficacy of LY3841136 for chronic weight management alone or in combination with Tirzepatide across a wide dose range in participants with Type 2 Diabetes. Participation in the study will last about 64 weeks.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

350 Participants Needed

LY3305677 for Obesity

Cincinnati, Ohio
The purpose of this Phase-2 chronic weight management master protocol (CWMM) is to create a framework to evaluate the safety and efficacy of various investigational interventions for chronic weight management with intervention-specific appendices (ISAs). The CWMM establishes entry criteria for newly enrolled participants across the master and the ISAs. The ISAs may start independently of other ISAs as interventions become available for clinical testing. The results for the CWMM screening record will be reported when all the ISA's complete.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

1217 Participants Needed

This study will test the hypothesis that metabolic bariatric surgery will be more effective at providing durable glycemic control and reduce co-morbidities than intensive medical therapy in youth with type 2 diabetes.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 4
Age:13 - 19

100 Participants Needed

The goal of this clinical trial is to test a responsive parenting obesity prevention program with infants and caregivers of color (e.g., non-White; Hispanic/Latinx) and/or who are economically marginalized (i.e., publicly insured), delivered via Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) in pediatric primary care. The main questions it aims to answer are: * 1) Is the obesity prevention intervention delivered via IBH in pediatric primary care feasible and acceptable to families of color and/or families who are economically marginalized? * 2) Will it prevent rapid weight gain during infancy? Participants will complete baseline (newborn), post-treatment (9 months), and follow-up assessments (12 months). Participants assigned to treatment will receive 4 prevention sessions as part of their typical well-child visit in pediatric primary care. Researchers hypothesize that infants in the obesity prevention intervention will have stable weight gain compared to infants in the control group (treatment as usual) will experience more rapid weight gain.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:1 - 30

144 Participants Needed

This trial is testing tirzepatide to see if it can help people with obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes, who have chronic kidney disease. The medication works by controlling blood sugar and reducing weight, which may improve kidney function. Tirzepatide is a new medication given regularly, effective in treating obesity in patients with and without diabetes.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

140 Participants Needed

Childhood is an opportune time to intervene in obesity because behaviors that are developed during this time can have long-lasting effects and disrupt trajectories of obesity. This proposal aims to test the feasibility (i.e., participant acceptance, adherence, and retention) of a family-oriented intervention "AyUDA" (Aprender y Utilizar Decisiones Apreciables-Learning and Utilizing Significant Choices). The culturally tailored, two-arm adapted intervention to engage Latinx parents in healthy feeding and lifestyle practices for their children 2-5 years old, thereby reducing early childhood overweight and obesity. The investigators will use concepts of the Social-Ecological Framework for Obesity among Latinx, and the Social Learning Theory that emphasizes the importance of observing, modeling, and imitating behaviors. This approach includes a community engagement partnership with one clinic that serves a great number of Latinx families with 2-5 aged children in Central Kentucky (General Pediatric Clinic-Clinica Amiga). The investigators propose a two-arm randomized clinical trial (RCT) randomly assigning participants to either a telehealth deep cultural level group or a culturally traditional educational group in a sample of 40 Latinx families who will be followed for six months after the intervention. Moreover, investigators will explore short-term changes of the intervention on dietary behavior changes and anthropometric measurements among family members. The feasibility study will inform effect sizes that will be used to estimate statistical power for a future R01 on Community Level Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities, National Institute of Health (NIH).
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Terminated
Age:2 - 60

57 Participants Needed

The purpose of Mobile Apps for Preschool Parents (MAPP) Study is to test the effectiveness of two mobile applications for parents of preschool aged children: 1) an app focused on child and family nutrition and wellness, and 2) an app focused on parents reading to their children.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

1200 Participants Needed

This trial is testing a new treatment called CT-868 to see if it helps overweight and obese adults with Type 1 Diabetes control their blood sugar better. Participants will continue their regular insulin therapy and receive either CT-868 or another treatment. The goal is to find out if CT-868 can make blood sugar levels more stable.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

111 Participants Needed

Overweight/obesity and inadequate sleep are prevalent, and frequently co-occurring, health risks among children, both of which are associated with serious medical and psychosocial health complications including risk for cardiovascular disease. Although the investigator's data suggest that disrupted or shortened sleep may be causally associated with increased energy intake and weight gain in children, and with self-regulation and neural response to food cues in adults, understanding of mechanisms involved in the sleep/eating association is incomplete, thereby impeding development of targeted, optimally timed intervention strategies. The proposed mechanistic clinical trial aims to assess the effects of an experimental sleep manipulation on eating-related self-regulation and its neural substrates, and on real-world eating behavior, among children with overweight/obesity, which will help guide research efforts towards the refinement of prevention and intervention strategies targeting sleep and its eating-related correlates to curb weight gain throughout development.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:8 - 12

120 Participants Needed

Why Other Patients Applied

"As a healthy volunteer, I like to participate in as many trials as I'm able to. It's a good way to help research and earn money."

IZ
Healthy Volunteer PatientAge: 38

"I've been struggling with ADHD and anxiety since I was 9 years old. I'm currently 30. I really don't like how numb the medications make me feel. And especially now, that I've lost my grandma and my aunt 8 days apart, my anxiety has been even worse. So I'm trying to find something new."

FF
ADHD PatientAge: 31

"My orthopedist recommended a half replacement of my right knee. I have had both hips replaced. Currently have arthritis in knee, shoulder, and thumb. I want to avoid surgery, and I'm open-minded about trying a trial before using surgery as a last resort."

HZ
Arthritis PatientAge: 78

"I've tried several different SSRIs over the past 23 years with no luck. Some of these new treatments seem interesting... haven't tried anything like them before. I really hope that one could work."

ZS
Depression PatientAge: 51

"I changed my diet in 2020 and I’ve lost 95 pounds from my highest weight (283). I am 5’3”, female, and now 188. I still have a 33 BMI. I've been doing research on alternative approaches to continue my progress, which brought me here to consider clinical trials."

WR
Obesity PatientAge: 58

Orforglipron for Obesity

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The main purpose of this study, performed under Master Protocol J4M-MC-PWMP, is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of orforglipron once daily oral versus Placebo in adolescent participants with obesity, or overweight with related comorbidities. Participation in the study will last about 18 months.
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Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:12 - 17

125 Participants Needed

Orforglipron for Pediatric Obesity

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The purpose of this pediatric, chronic weight management, Phase 3 Master Protocol (PWMP) is to create a framework to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pharmacologic agents for the treatment of obesity or overweight in pediatric participants.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:6 - 17

125 Participants Needed

This is a single site, single-blinded parallel randomized control trial that investigates a multi-level intervention to improve postpartum blood pressure in women with hypertensive disorder pregnancy. The investigators will recruit women diagnosed with a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, identified between 3rd trimester and 2 weeks post-delivery. The investigators will randomize participants to receive usual care home blood pressure monitoring for 6 weeks versus an intervention of usual care + blood pressure and weight monitoring + a doula trained in heart health. This trial will be conducted in partnership with a local community-based organization, Healthy Start Inc.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Sex:Female

454 Participants Needed

Retatrutide for Obesity

Indianapolis, Indiana
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of retatrutide in participants who have obesity or overweight (J1I-MC-GZBJ master protocol) including subsets of participants who have knee osteoarthritis (OA) (J1I-MC-GOA1) or who have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (J1I-MC-GSA1). This study will last about 89 weeks and will include up to 24 visits. Addendum (2) is optional and available to approximately 500 participants to continue treatment with retatrutide for up to an additional 24 weeks.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

2300 Participants Needed

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the dissemination and implementation of electronic health record-based clinical decision support tools for the management of pediatric overweight and obesity in primary care.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:2+

240772 Participants Needed

Orforglipron for Obesity

Smithfield, Pennsylvania
The purpose of this Master Protocol is to support two studies to see how well and how safely orforglipron works compared to placebo in participants who have obesity or overweight with or without type 2 diabetes. Participants will be screened for about 4 weeks, after which they will enroll into either J2A-MC-GZP1, NCT06972459 (do not have type 2 diabetes) or J2A-MC-GZP2, NCT06972472 (have type 2 diabetes).
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

1200 Participants Needed

The main purpose of this study is to see how orforglipron, compared with placebo, helps improve glycemic control in participants with obesity or with overweight and type 2 diabetes. This trial is part of the master protocol study J2A-MC-GZPO. Participation in the study will last about 18 months.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

600 Participants Needed

Orforglipron for Obesity

Smithfield, Pennsylvania
The main purpose of this study is to see how orforglipron, compared with placebo, helps reduce body weight in participants with obesity or with overweight and at least one other related health condition (excluding type 2 diabetes). This trial is part of the master protocol study J2A-MC-GZPO. Participation in the study will last about 18 months.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

600 Participants Needed

This novel, timely, and theory-driven Food-Body-Mind intervention addresses the national emergency of mental health crises in early childhood. By targeting Head Start racially/ethnically diverse preschoolers from low-income backgrounds in both urban and rural areas, this intervention is expected to contribute toward reducing health disparities and promoting health equity, a major priority of the NIH and Healthy People 2030. If effective, it can be scalable to Head Start programs across urban and rural settings nationally with long-term sustainability benefits.
No Placebo Group
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2, 3
Age:3 - 5

800 Participants Needed

This trial will test the safety and effectiveness of an oral medication called orforglipron in adults who are obese or overweight and have related health problems. The medication aims to help reduce body weight by possibly affecting appetite or metabolism.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3

3000 Participants Needed

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much do Childhood Obesity clinical trials pay?

Each trial will compensate patients a different amount, but $50-100 for each visit is a fairly common range for Phase 2–4 trials (Phase 1 trials often pay substantially more). Further, most trials will cover the costs of a travel to-and-from the clinic.

How do Childhood Obesity clinical trials work?

After a researcher reviews your profile, they may choose to invite you in to a screening appointment, where they'll determine if you meet 100% of the eligibility requirements. If you do, you'll be sorted into one of the treatment groups, and receive your study drug. For some trials, there is a chance you'll receive a placebo. Across Childhood Obesity trials 30% of clinical trials have a placebo. Typically, you'll be required to check-in with the clinic every month or so. The average trial length for Childhood Obesity is 12 months.

How do I participate in a study as a "healthy volunteer"?

Not all studies recruit healthy volunteers: usually, Phase 1 studies do. Participating as a healthy volunteer means you will go to a research facility several times over a few days or weeks to receive a dose of either the test treatment or a "placebo," which is a harmless substance that helps researchers compare results. You will have routine tests during these visits, and you'll be compensated for your time and travel, with the number of appointments and details varying by study.

What does the "phase" of a clinical trial mean?

The phase of a trial reveals what stage the drug is in to get approval for a specific condition. Phase 1 trials are the trials to collect safety data in humans. Phase 2 trials are those where the drug has some data showing safety in humans, but where further human data is needed on drug effectiveness. Phase 3 trials are in the final step before approval. The drug already has data showing both safety and effectiveness. As a general rule, Phase 3 trials are more promising than Phase 2, and Phase 2 trials are more promising than phase 1.

Do I need to be insured to participate in a Childhood Obesity medical study?

Clinical trials are almost always free to participants, and so do not require insurance. The only exception here are trials focused on cancer, because only a small part of the typical treatment plan is actually experimental. For these cancer trials, participants typically need insurance to cover all the non-experimental components.

What are the newest Childhood Obesity clinical trials?

Most recently, we added Digital Family-Based Treatment for Childhood Obesity, Bottle Design for Infant Weight Gain and Bimagrumab + Tirzepatide for Obesity with Type 2 Diabetes to the Power online platform.

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