Muscle Strength and Inflammatory Response in Patients With Inclusion Body Myositis

N/ACompletedNCT00898989

Institut de Myologie, France42 enrolled

Overview

Comparison of a group of 20 IBM patients with 20 controls matched on age, gender and weight.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> 18 years old * Written consent Exclusion Criteria: * Current infection * Cancer within 1 year * Immune deficiency

Hopital Pitié-Salpêtrière

Paris, France

muscle strength

Time frame: 2 evaluations at an interval of 9 months

immune response

Time frame: 1 measure at inclusion

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