Complementary and Alternative Medicine Detoxification: Safety and Efficacy

补充和替代医学排毒：安全性和有效性

• 批准号: 7661963
• 负责人: JASON ALLEN
• 金额: $ 8.97万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7661963
• 关键词: Address; Adherence; Adipose tissue; Adult; Adverse effects; American; Autoimmune Diseases; Award; Biochemical; Biological Monitoring; Blood Pressure; Body Burden; Cardiovascular Diseases; Career Transition Award; Chemicals; Chronic; Clinical; Clinical Practice Guideline; Clinical Trials; Collaborations; Complementary and alternative medicine; Control Groups; Controlled Study; Creatinine; Data; Data Analyses; Disease; Drug Metabolic Detoxication; Education; Epidemiology; Exercise; Exposure to; Flame Retardants; Goals; Health; Heart Rate; Human; Human body; Infertility; Intention; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Literature; Malignant Neoplasms; Manuscripts; Medical; Mentors; Methods; Monitor; Neurodevelopmental Disorder; Nutrient; Occupational Medicine; Patients; Pesticides; Phase; Physiological; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevention; Prevention approach; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Pulse Oximetry; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Randomized Controlled Trials; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; SF-36; Safety; Sauna; Solvents; Specialist; Supplementation; Surrogate Endpoint; Symptoms; Syndrome; Time; Toxicology; Training; Whole Blood; active method; bioaccumulation; bisphenol A; career; chemical reduction; exposed human population; human disease; novel; organochlorine pesticide; phthalates; pollutant; polychlorinated diphenyl ethers; premature; programs; public health relevance; respiratory; responsible research conduct; tool; urinary; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Exposure to synthetic chemicals, including pesticides, solvents, and flame retardants, is associated with the initiation or exacerbation of a number of human diseases, including cancer, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, and infertility. National and regional biomonitoring programs increasingly demonstrate that Americans are accumulating hundreds of chemicals in their bodies. Chronic low-level pollutant exposure leads to chemical buildup in the body; this bioaccumulation has been associated with a number of human diseases and emerging syndromes. Currently no conventional clinical practice guidelines address body burden reduction (detoxification) for disease treatment or prevention. CAM practitioners and the American public commonly utilize detoxification methods with the intention of reducing concentrations of chemical pollutants from the human body. While preliminary data for some CAM detoxification interventions demonstrates efficacy in surrogate endpoints, well-controlled studies have not been conducted. In the mentored phase of this career transition award I will complete data analysis, submit manuscripts, and seek an independent research position. In addition, under the direction of three career researchers, I will complete advanced coursework, clinical trial training, training in the responsible conduct of research, and advanced CAM detoxification methods training. During the independent phase of the award I will conduct the first randomized, controlled trial of a CAM detoxification protocol in healthy adults to determine if reduction of stored chemicals 1) can be achieved, 2) is well tolerated, and 3) results in improvement of physiologic function or quality of life. The short-term goal of this research is to obtain preliminary safety and efficacy data on detoxification. The long-term goal of this research, and the candidate, is to develop the collaborations and infrastructure necessary to conduct larger trials on CAM detoxification approaches to the prevention and treatment of environmentally-attributable diseases. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Exposure to highly persistent, bioaccumulative, synthetic chemicals is ubiquitous. Emerging epidemiological data increasingly demonstrate strong associations between chemicals and diseases of enormous public health importance. Reducing this body burden may be a novel, yet incompletely understood method of prevention and treatment. This research will gather pilot data to fill this knowledge gap.

描述（由申请人提供）：接触合成化学品，包括杀虫剂、溶剂和阻燃剂，与许多人类疾病的发生或恶化有关，包括癌症、自身免疫性疾病、心血管疾病和不孕症。国家和地区生物监测计划越来越多地表明，美国人体内正在积累数百种化学物质。长期接触低水平污染物会导致体内化学物质积聚；这种生物蓄积与许多人类疾病和新出现的综合症有关。目前没有传统的临床实践指南涉及减轻身体负担（排毒）以治疗或预防疾病。 CAM从业者和美国公众普遍采用解毒方法，目的是降低人体化学污染物的浓度。虽然一些 CAM 排毒干预措施的初步数据证明了替代终点的有效性，但尚未进行良好对照的研究。在这个职业转型奖的指导阶段，我将完成数据分析、提交手稿并寻求独立研究职位。此外，在三位职业研究人员的指导下，我将完成高级课程、临床试验培训、负责任的研究培训以及高级 CAM 解毒方法培训。在奖励的独立阶段，我将在健康成人中进行第一个 CAM 解毒方案的随机对照试验，以确定是否可以实现储存化学物质的减少 1)、2) 具有良好的耐受性，以及 3) 是否能改善生理功能或生活质量。这项研究的短期目标是获得排毒的初步安全性和有效性数据。这项研究和候选项目的长期目标是发展必要的合作和基础设施，以对 CAM 解毒方法进行更大规模的试验，以预防和治疗环境引起的疾病。 公共卫生相关性：接触高度持久性、生物累积性的合成化学品是普遍存在的。新出现的流行病学数据越来越多地表明化学品与具有巨大公共卫生重要性的疾病之间存在密切联系。减轻这种身体负担可能是一种新颖但尚未完全了解的预防和治疗方法。这项研究将收集试点数据来填补这一知识空白。