Clinical trialNCT00440869CompletedPhase 1Interventional

Effects of N-acetylcysteine on Muscle Fatigue in Hemodialysis

SponsorNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)Enrollment30DialysisEnd-Stage Renal DiseaseHemodialysis

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Summary

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The purposes of the study are to determine whether oxidative stress causes the muscle of dialysis patients to tire more quickly than muscle of people without kidney disease and to determine whether treatment with N-acetylcysteine, an antioxidant, can improve muscle endurance.

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Investigators

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Kirsten L Johansen, MD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco VA Medical Center
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

San Francisco Va Medical Center
San Francisco, California, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Mar 2007
Primary completion: 31 Dec 2009
Completion: 31 Dec 2009
Last update posted: 3 Mar 2010
Registered enrollment: 30
Registry id: NCT00440869

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.