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64 Weight Loss Trials near Long Beach, CA

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Pivotal Trials (Near Approval)
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The use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in earlier data has inspired behavioral changes leading to improved adherence to an exercise plan in individuals and eating habits in people with diabetes. Mobile health (mHealth) platforms provide satisfactory, easy-to-use tools to help participants in the pursuit of weight change goals. We hypothesize that the use of CGM data and the Signos mHealth platform will assist with weight control in a population of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus who are not using insulin.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

20000 Participants Needed

This trial uses a device that tracks blood sugar levels and a mobile app to help non-diabetic people improve their weight and health. By monitoring their blood sugar, users can learn which foods and activities are best for them, with the app providing personalized advice.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

31187 Participants Needed

The goal of this study is to addresses the lack of weight management training physicians receive during their residency training. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How affective is the MRWeight curriculum at increasing medical residents weight management counseling (WMC) skills. * Evaluate residents' adoption of WMC skills in encounters with their patients * what would be the best way to get residents to adopt the WMC skills Residents in the comparison group will receive a course on obesity and weight management. The residents in the intervention group will have to attend 2 informational sessions and will receive 6 email modules on WMC. Both groups will also take part in 3 assessments over the course of 18 months to see which group has better WMC skills.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

630 Participants Needed

This trial tests different ways of using digital tools to track diet, steps, and weight for weight loss in overweight or obese adults. People will use these methods to keep track of their eating and activity over several months. The goal is to find the best combination of tracking methods to help people lose weight effectively.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

176 Participants Needed

Dietary Strategies for Obesity

Palo Alto, California
The goal of the Reset trial is to learn about the optimal combination of dietary behavior strategies in a fully digital weight loss intervention. The intervention is designed for adults with overweight or obesity. The investigators will examine the impact on weight loss of four dietary strategies: 1) limiting Red Zone Foods (i.e., foods that are high in calories and low in nutrition), 2) limiting eating windows, 3) increasing protein intake, and 4) increasing fiber intake. Each of these strategies will include goal setting, daily self-monitoring, and tailored feedback. The investigators will recruit 208 participants. Broadly, adults with overweight or obesity who live in the U.S. will be eligible. The weight loss intervention will last 12 weeks. All participants will be asked to track their body weight daily and complete weekly behavioral lessons and action plans to promote healthy eating and physical activity. All study tasks will occur remotely. Assessment of body weight and survey measures will occur at the beginning of the trial ("baseline"), and at 1 month and 3 months. The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) framework will be used to identify which combination of the dietary behavior strategies results in the greatest weight loss. In total, there will be 16 treatment conditions.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

208 Participants Needed

This trial tests whether EMBER, a motivational self-help tool, helps veterans with obesity engage in VHA weight management programs. Veterans will either use EMBER or be informed about available programs. The study will measure if those using EMBER are more likely to join and stick with these programs.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

470 Participants Needed

This study will determine whether electrical stimulation of an area of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, which is important in determining the feeling of fullness after eating, affects how much food a person eats and weight loss over 4 weeks. It will also compare weight changes in people who attend weight loss counseling sessions and those who do not over this period of time. Obese, non-diabetic people between 18 and 60 years of age who are in good health and who live in the Phoenix, AZ, metropolitan area are eligible for this study. Candidates must have a body mass index of 35 kg/m(2) or more and weigh less than 350 pounds. Participants are admitted to the NIH inpatient unit in Phoenix for the first 9 days of the study for tests, which include meal tests to determine eating behaviors and caloric intake, blood and urine tests, glucose tolerance test, weight measurement, psychological assessments and DEXA scan to measure body fat. For 3 of the days, they will be asked to eat all of their food from automated vending machines. Some subjects receive transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS). For this procedure, electrodes that conduct electricity are placed on the head and arm and the current is turned on for 40 minutes. Some tingling may be felt under the electrodes. Other subjects receive sham TDCS, with the current turned on only very briefly. After the evaluations, subjects are discharged home from the NIH unit and instructed to eat 25 percent fewer calories than they consumed while on a weight maintenance diet the first 3 days of their inpatient stay. They maintain the lower calorie diet at home for 4 weeks. During this period they come to the NIH unit 3 days a week to receive either real or sham TDCS.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:18 - 60

148 Participants Needed

This trial uses a device that continuously tracks blood sugar levels and a mobile app to help people with obesity manage their weight. The app provides personalized advice on diet and exercise based on the blood sugar data. The goal is to see if this approach helps people stick to their health goals better.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:22+

380 Participants Needed

The goal of ADELANTE is to determine whether a multi-level intervention to improve household food insecurity and glycemic control is effective for Latino patients with diabetes. Specifically, ADELANTE aims to 1. determine whether weekly household food delivery plus an intensive lifestyle intervention is more effective than usual care for improving glycemic control (HbA1c) at 6 months, 2. examine the effects of the multi-level intervention on = household food insecurity, dietary behaviors, and psychosocial outcomes, and 3. assess the future potential for implementation and dissemination of this multi-level intervention in primary care settings.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

360 Participants Needed

This is an research study about clinical, psychosocial, and behavioral factors that impact weight loss, weight maintenance, and cardiovascular disease in socially disadvantaged persons.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

15 Participants Needed

Evaluation of current and newly developed endoluminal therapies in the management of Upper and Lower GI conditions.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Enrolling By Invitation
Trial Phase:Unphased

500 Participants Needed

Study to investigate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of systemic chemotherapy plus ponsegromab versus systemic chemotherapy plus placebo for the first-line treatment in adult participants with cachexia and metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocardinoma.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2, 3

982 Participants Needed

Using a small Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) study design, PNPLA3 risk allele carriers (CG/GG genotype) with NAFLD, will be assigned 2:1 to a tailored NAFLD-specific weight loss intervention compared to a wait-list control group.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 64
Sex:Male

39 Participants Needed

The purpose of this study is to test a randomized, controlled diet and physical activity intervention designed to be simple and address barriers to participation in lifestyle intervention among 16 urinary bladder cancer patients. Aim 1 is to test the feasibility and acceptability of a novel, peri-operative lifestyle intervention, "The Boost Box", among bladder cancer patients receiving cystectomy with or without neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Aim 2 is to measure the feasibility of collecting data on the intervention effects on complication rate, nutritional status, weight loss, and quality of life post-surgery among bladder cancer patients receiving cystectomy ± neoadjuvant therapy. Secondarily, we will determine the magnitude of association between study group and outcomes to inform power calculations in a future, well-powered trial. Participants will: * attend two dietetic consultations at baseline and post-surgical recovery where nutritional status will be evaluated with patient-generated subjective global assessment (PG-SGA) * complete baseline questionnaires (TCC, FACT-BI-Cys, Short 2012, FAACT, Godin) * receive weekly BOOST boxes * complete pre-surgery weekly BOOST check ins * complete post-surgery weekly BOOST check ins * complete an ASA food recall pre and post-surgery * complete an exercise familiarization consult * record weekly resistance and aerobic exercise performed at home * complete a 6 month follow-up questionnaire * receive compensation Researchers will compare to a Usual Care group to determine differences that could be attributed to the BOOST Box intervention.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

20 Participants Needed

Many people struggle not only to lose weight through changes in diet and physical activity, but also to maintain weight loss once they have achieved it. In a previous study, our team designed and deployed a weight maintenance intervention that was delivered through the patient portal of an electronic health record (EHR) and found that patients who tracked their weight, diet, and physical activity and also received coaching had better success with maintaining recent intentional weight loss than patients who tracked but did not receive coaching. The investigators propose to repeat the intervention in a new health care system and train routine health care staff (e.g., medical assistants and nurses) to be coaches, a more sustainable model that will allow ongoing intervention delivery after the proposed study ends. This is a pragmatic randomized clinical Trial with percent weight change at 24 months as the primary outcome. This will be a 2-arm randomized trial that compares the MAINTAIN PRIME lifestyle coaching intervention to a control tracking intervention.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

269 Participants Needed

This trial tests the HealthTRAC program, which helps overweight or obese teenagers manage their weight by teaching them how to handle their emotions better. The program combines lessons on emotional control with healthy eating and physical activity strategies. It aims to help these teens lose weight and maintain a healthier lifestyle. The HealthTRAC intervention has shown to be acceptable, feasible to deliver, and positively impacts BMI and emotion regulation abilities in overweight/obese adolescents.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:13 - 17

172 Participants Needed

Weight Loss for Obesity

Boulder, Colorado
Changes in adipose tissue biology are now recognized as a key factor underlying the increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular disease with obesity. Clinical interest in adipocyte-derived extracellular vesicles (Ad-EVs) has intensified due to their potential as circulating biomarkers of adipose tissue health and systemic messengers, regulators and mediators of cardiometabolic health and disease with obesity. The investigators hypothesize that elevated Ad-EVs in adults with obesity will be negatively associated with endothelium-dependent vasodilation. Furthermore, the investigators hypothesize that in adults with obesity, intentional weight loss-induced reduction in circulating Ad-EVs is associated with greater endothelium-dependent vasodilation.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:40+

84 Participants Needed

This phase II trial tests how well olanzapine works in managing cancer cachexia in patients experiencing esophagogastric, hepatopancreaticobiliary, colorectal, or lung cancer that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced) or that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic) -associated appetite loss while receiving non-curative cancer therapy. Loss of appetite ("anorexia") in the setting of cancer is a key feature of "cachexia," a syndrome associated with loss of weight and muscle as well as weakness and fatigue. Olanzapine is a drug that targets key neurotransmitters (a type of molecule in the central nervous system that transmits messages to the rest of the body) that may stimulate appetite, restore caloric intake, minimize weight loss, and improve quality of life (QOL).

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

66 Participants Needed

Semaglutide for Obesity

Aurora, Colorado
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA), such as Ozempic and Wegovy, have been rapidly adopted for the treatment of obesity in both youth and adults. However, despite this rapid adoption and the known GLP-1RA mechanism of action for weight loss, which targets brain circuits responsible for appetite and eating behaviors, almost nothing is known about how these drugs affect the brain in youth who are treated for obesity, or how these drugs affect the brain of youth differently from adults. The goal of the current study is to compare youth and adults with obesity who are treated a GLP-1RA and measure potential difference in GLP-1RA associated change in brain function, appetite, and eating behaviors.
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 3
Age:12 - 45

120 Participants Needed

The study plans to learn more about what happens to the body after bariatric surgery in people 12 to 24 years old. The study aims to understand why people respond differently to bariatric surgery and how to define success beyond weight loss alone. The study also plans to learn more about whether a medication (semaglutide) can help people 12 to 24 years old who, between 1 and 2 years after bariatric surgery, have not lost as much weight as expected.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 1
Age:12 - 24

48 Participants Needed

Why Other Patients Applied

"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

"I need to lose weight because it's affecting my knees. I've already had a knee replacement and the second one is happening on the left knee in a few months. I've participated in a study in the past for a skin-related issue, and had a good experience. That's why I'm interested in joining a study for wieght loss."

KI
Obesity PatientAge: 69

"I have a heart condition, and my fat is all in my chest, surrounding my heart. It's hard for me to exercise because my legs are thin and the upper body weight is too much — putting strain on my leg joints. It’s a vicious cycle. I am also post-menopausal, which adds additional weight loss difficulty. I also have stress with being a full time caregiver for my mom. I'm interested in trying a clinical trial."

DK
Obesity PatientAge: 56

"I am applying for my daughter. She turns 12 this year and is overweight. She's 5'4" and 176 pounds. Would be great to enroll her in a clinical trial to see if this form of care could work for her. Realize that there's no guarantee, but I support her and we'd like to give it a try."

MW
Parent of PatientAge: 46

"I have tried to lose weight, but as I get older, it becomes harder and harder. I have lost weight in the past through diet and exercise, but it has been more difficult to accomplish as I age."

JP
Obesity PatientAge: 44
The purpose of this study is to determine how different behavioral interventions designed to alter food perceptions and behaviors affect brain responses to food, eating behaviors, and body weight.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65

228 Participants Needed

Four in five Veterans have overweight or obesity. However, few eligible Veterans achieve meaningful weight loss in VA's national MOVE! Weight Management Program. Family and friends strongly influence a person's health behaviors and weight. Including a close family member or friend in weight management may improve weight management outcomes. This study will test whether an 14-week, 8-session virtual weight management program that includes Veterans and a support person (e.g., family member or friend) leads to weight loss. The investigators will also test whether the program leads to improvements in weight-related health behaviors, including physical activity and diet, and relationship quality.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

320 Participants Needed

This study plans to learn more about the feasibility and acceptability of integrating the Move physical activity support program within an existing lifestyle intervention program.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65

64 Participants Needed

The purpose of this research is to identify strategies that minimize bone loss that occurs when older adults lose weight. Participation in this research will involve up to nine assessment visits and last up to two years.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 4
Age:60+

900 Participants Needed

Weight Loss for Obesity

Aurora, Colorado
The goal of this intervention study is to learn about how weight loss impacts molecular signaling of intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) in individuals with obesity. The main question it aims to answer is how inflammatory molecules secreted by IMAT promote muscle insulin resistance and inflammation, and how these same molecules are diminished after weight loss. Following screening visits involving body composition measures, blood testing, strength testing, and a thigh muscle biopsy, participants will go through a 12-week dietary intervention for weight loss. After 12 weeks, this will be followed by the same testing and biopsies that were completed before the intervention. Researchers will then compare outcomes of individuals who lost weight to individuals who did not lose weight.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

70 Participants Needed

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the Small Changes program in facilitating weight loss and to assess treatment effects on body composition, blood markers of metabolic health, and blood pressure, and to assess attrition and compliance
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

52 Participants Needed

This research study is comparing the effectiveness of a weight loss medication called Tirzepatide in young adults with Prader-Willi Syndrome and/or hypothalamic obesity, as compared to young adults with obesity that is unrelated to a genetic syndrome or underlying medical cause. These groups will be given medication for 1 year to see how weight and other health factors are effected by the medication.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 4
Age:18 - 26

36 Participants Needed

Prevalent obesity related conditions like obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) represent an important opportunity to improve population health. OSA reduces quality of life and is associated with greater risk for cardiovascular disease. Although obesity is the single greatest reversible risk factor for OSA, patients with OSA and obesity rarely receive weight loss care to reverse OSA and other serious comorbidities. Efficacy trials reinforce that time and resource intensive lifestyle-based weight loss programs improve weight and physiologic measures of OSA severity (apnea hypopnea index, AHI). However, there are barriers to translating these findings into meaningful gains for population health. To meet these challenges, the investigators propose a pragmatic trial of proactively offering a remote video-based and self-directed lifestyle-based weight loss intervention with remote coaching to patients with OSA. The investigators primary aim is to test the effectiveness of a proactively delivered and pragmatic lifestyle intervention to improve co-primary endpoints of sleep-related quality of life and weight among patients with OSA and obesity. Secondarily, the investigators will compare additional outcomes between groups including cardiovascular risk scores, sleep symptoms, AHI, well-being, and global ratings of change. Finally, the investigators will also conduct an implementation process evaluation informed by the RE-AIM framework to identify barriers and facilitators to widespread implementation. The investigators will identify patients with OSA and obesity nationwide (n=696) in VA using data from the VA's Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), and the investigators will contact potentially eligible patients. After confirming eligibility and consent, the investigators will randomly assign subjects to receive the study's lifestyle intervention or usual care alone. The study uses CDW to assess weight change. Subjects will complete questionnaires at baseline at 3, 12 and 21 months after randomization. The lifestyle intervention in POWER focuses on gradual lifestyle behavior change aimed at improving eating habits and increasing physical activity. It encourages participants to gradually achieve and maintain a 5-10% loss of baseline body weight and at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity, such as brisk walking, each week. The lifestyle intervention program consists of watching one video, completing corresponding written self-guided learning materials, and tracking food intake and physical activity each week for the first 12 weeks, then working through 10 additional written handouts and continued food and activity tracking for the next nine months. Intervention participants will have access to a lifestyle coach as desired for the full 12-month intervention period.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

696 Participants Needed

Patients and clinicians need better options to prevent the weight regain that almost universally follows a weight loss intervention. In lay terms, a new, higher "set point" seems to occur after people gain weight. Evidence from some research studies reinforces these observations, showing that processes of energy homeostasis vigorously defend the higher level of adiposity for years, if not permanently. Only bariatric surgery appears to "re-set" to a lower level of adiposity. No clear mechanism has been elucidated to date that explains these phenomena. The current proposal endeavors to address this crucial scientific gap by translating preclinical data into human studies testing novel mechanistic hypotheses. Prior studies in rodents show that a high-fat diet causes inflammation and a cellular response, known as gliosis, within hypothalamic regions regulating energy balance and glucose homeostasis. Evidence further suggests that gliosis might play a pathogenic role in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) because its development precedes weight gain and impaired glucose homeostasis and its inhibition improves metabolic health. Importantly, gliosis is detectable in mice and humans by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Using MRI, the investigators discovered the first evidence of gliosis in obese humans and went on to show associations of gliosis with insulin resistance in humans, independent of the level of adiposity. New findings suggest that people with T2D have more extensive gliosis than is seen in nondiabetic obese subjects. Further findings reveal that gliosis improves, but is not completely reversed, 8 mo. after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery in T2D patients. It remains unknown whether gliosis improves similarly when weight loss occurs by lifestyle change or if the efficacy and durability of weight loss via bariatric surgery is partially explained by its ability to reverse gliosis via an as yet unknown mechanism of action. We therefore propose three studies in humans to discover 1) if hypothalamic gliosis is reversed by a standard behavioral weight loss intervention, 2) if the extent of gliosis predicts successful weight loss during, or weight regain after, behavioral weight loss, and 3) the time course of improvement in gliosis after RYGB and the relation of its improvement to the short- and long-term efficacy of RYGB. Future research would define dietary, environmental, or other risk factors for the development of hypothalamic gliosis in humans. Achieving a better understanding of the role of the brain in obesity and its treatment could open new avenues for research, intervention, and prevention.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:25 - 64

112 Participants Needed

AZD9550 for Fatty Liver Disease

Surrey, British Columbia
AZD9550, previously being developed for the treatment NASH, is a dual GCG and GLP-1 receptor agonist. AZD9550 is now being developed in combination with AZD6234, a SARA, for the treatment of overweight and obesity and its associated co-morbidities. Co-administration of AZD9550 and AZD6234 is currently being evaluated in participants living with obesity and overweight without T2DM in an ongoing Phase 2b study. The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety, tolerability, and effects of increasing doses of AZD9550 monotherapy in overweight and obese participants aged 18 through 65 years living with or without T2DM, and to investigate how AZD9550 is absorbed, distributed, and eliminated from the body (Parts A-D). In addition, the study will investigate the safety and tolerability of co-administration of AZD9550 and AZD6234 in participants living with T2DM with obesity or overweight aged 18 through 75 years (Part E).

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 1, 2
Age:18 - 65

116 Participants Needed

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