Recruiting

Phlebotomy

Sponsor:

Georgetown University

Code:

NCT04058275

Conditions

Gulf War Illness

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Draw blood (phlebotomy, 83 ml)

Study Details

Brief summary:

Gulf War Illness and deployed veterans of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War are invited to have a brief history and physical examination to determine their health status, complete questionnaires, then donate about 83 ml of blood. There is no follow-up

Conditions

Gulf War Illness

Study ID

NCT04058275

Start date

Sep 1, 2018

Status verified date

Aug, 2019

Completion date

Aug 31, 2021

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 31, 2020

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Kansas Criteria for GWI
  • CDC criteria for CMI

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Chronic medical or psychiatric disorder that may be responsible for symptoms of GWI

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Control

Deployed to 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War Do not meet Kansas Criteria for Gulf War Illness \[Steele L. Prevalence and patterns of Gulf War illness in Kansas veterans: association of symptoms with characteristics of person, place, and time of military service. Am J Epidemiol. 2000 Nov 15; 152:992-1002. PubMed PMID: 11092441.\] Good general medical and psychiatric health

Gulf War Illness

Deployed to 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War Meet Kansas Criteria for Gulf War Illness \[Steele L. Prevalence and patterns of Gulf War illness in Kansas veterans: association of symptoms with characteristics of person, place, and time of military service. Am J Epidemiol. 2000 Nov 15; 152:992-1002. PubMed PMID: 11092441.\] plus Center for Disease Control criteria for Chronic Multisymptom Illness (CMI) \[Fukuda K, Nisenbaum R, Stewart G, Thompson WW, Robin L, Washko RM, Noah DL, Barrett DH, Randall B, Herwaldt BL, Mawle AC, Reeves WC. Chronic multisymptom illness affecting Air Force veterans of the Gulf War. JAMA. 1998 Sep 16;280(11):981-8. PubMed PMID: 9749480.\]

Interventions

Draw blood (phlebotomy, 83 ml)

Draw 83 ml of blood

Primary outcome measure

  • Gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells [ Time Frame: After study recruitment, phleobotomy and mRNA quantification for all participants has been completed in June 2020 ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

James N Baraniuk, MD

12026878231baraniuj@georgetown.edu

Locations

Georgetown University

Recruiting

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007-2197

More Information

Sponsor

Georgetown University

Last update posted

Aug 15, 2019

Last verified

Aug, 2019

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Georgetown University on 2019-08-15.