About this trial
Multicentre, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of the clinical efficacy of burdock root extract in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia, with the primary objective to assess the efficacy of the use of burdock root extract in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricaemia versus placebo
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Hyperuricaemia confirmed by a laboratory, uric acid level from 360 to 540 μmol/L in women and from 420 to 540 μmol/L in men;
Age from 35 to 65 years at the baseline;
Patients examined by an experienced specialist not revealing any clinical evidences of gout or other somatic consequences of hyperuricaemia;
Not taking any other nutritional additives;
Disqualifiers
Age <35 or >65 years;
Fever (above 36.8 оС);
Pregnancy and lactation;
Patients with any somatic evidences of hyperuricaemia including gout taking antigout drugs during or within 6 months before the trial;
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Burdock ( Arctium lappa L.) root extract in a form of a nutritional additive
Dietary supplementGastric soluble capsules each containing: 750 mg of burdock ( Arctium lappa L.) root extract in the form of a nutritional additive
Placebo
Other interventionGastric soluble capsules each containing: Maltodextrin, silicon dioxide, calcium stearate, food colourants
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Body temperature
Body weight
kg
Body mass index
Purpouse of the trial
1. To study blood levels of uric acid before and after the two-months administration of IMP and placebo in a dose of 1 capsule twice per day in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricaemia and a baseline level of uric acid from 360 to 540 μmol/L in women and from 420 to 540 μmol/L in men. 2. To study safety of administration of IMP.
Secondary outcomes
Uric acid
μmol/L
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