NCT07065929

Brief Summary

This study evaluate the impact of early personalized nutritional management on 1-month mortality after acute stroke. In the randomised centres of the interventional group (early personalized nutritional management), each patient will be assessed by a dietician within 2 days of stroke. Any swallowing problems are screened, and any barriers to eating are identified before dietary support. Patient's food intakes are recorded until the 7th day post-acute to assess their energy intake. Depending on patient's nutritional objectives, a reinforced feeding strategy comprising 2 levels is put in place, in order to prevent malnutrition: in level 1, the dietician tries to meet nutritional requirements orally, while in level 2 he can recourse to artificial nutrition in the event of failure or inability to meet requirements with oral intake alone. This strategy is started immediately after the initial assessment. Intakes are reassessed every 24 to 48 hours by the dietician in order to adapt the nutritional strategy as quickly as possible in order to cover the patient's personnalized nutritional needs. No change in practice was required of the randomised centres in the control group. All patients will be contacted by telephone 30 days after stroke to collect parts of the assessment criteria, while the other criteria will be collected directly from the patient's computerised medical record. Three months after stroke, an evaluation of quality of life and modified Rankin test will be performed. Our hypothesis is that the implementation of an individualized management of early nutritional support, aimed at compensating for the decrease in intake associated with the disease, would reduce mortality at 30 days in patients hospitalised for stroke.

Trial Health

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Trial Health Score

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Enrollment
3,084

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
19mo left

Started Sep 2025

Typical duration for not_applicable

Geographic Reach
1 country

12 active sites

Status
recruiting

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Progress29%
Sep 2025Dec 2027

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

May 27, 2025

Completed
2 months until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

July 15, 2025

Completed
2 months until next milestone

Study Start

First participant enrolled

September 19, 2025

Completed
2 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

September 1, 2027

Expected
3 months until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

December 1, 2027

Last Updated

January 8, 2026

Status Verified

January 1, 2026

Enrollment Period

2 years

First QC Date

May 27, 2025

Last Update Submit

January 6, 2026

Conditions

Keywords

acute strokeearly nutritionpersonalized dietary support

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • mortality at 30 days after stroke (main criterion)

    Recording patient status at 30 days after stroke

    At 30 days of the day of the stroke

Secondary Outcomes (7)

  • Proportion of patients with modified Rankin score ≤ 2, 3 months after stroke

    At 90 days of the day of the stroke

  • Nutritional status at 30 days defined by BMI, weight change over 30 days and albumin rate, used to classify patients as severely undernourished, moderately undernourished or not undernourished.

    At 30 days of the day of the stroke

  • Time to occurrence of inhalation pneumonia related to the presence of a feeding tube recorded within 30 days of the day of the stroke

    Within 30 days of the day of the stroke

  • Time to occurrence of infection related to a catheter dedicated to parenteral nutrition recorded within 30 days of the day of the stroke

    Within 30 days of the day of the stroke

  • Time to occurrence of death recorded within 30 days of the day of the stroke:

    Within 30 days of the day of the stroke

  • +2 more secondary outcomes

Study Arms (2)

Interventional Group

EXPERIMENTAL

early nutritional management

Dietary Supplement: Early nutritional management

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Interventions

The food ingested by patients is collected until the day 7 of the stroke so that dieticians can calculate their needs and provide a suitable diet. If this is not sufficient, a reinforced nutrition strategy (meal enrichment) is implemented. On day 5 of the stroke, if energy intake is less than 2/3 of the energy objectives, the strategy is switched to level 2, unless it is possible to increase intake within 48 hours.

Interventional Group

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersNo
Age GroupsAdult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

  • Patients ≥ 18 years of age
  • With an acute, ischaemic or haemorrhagic outpatient or inpatient stroke
  • NIHSS score ≥ 5
  • Hospitalised in a neurology department, or Neuro Vascular Unit (NVU), or in a department where beds are dedicated to receiving post-stroke patients
  • Stroke less than 2 days old
  • Anticipated length of hospital stay in a participating centre ≥ 5 days
  • Patient affiliated to or benefiting from a social security scheme
  • Patient or close relative having given written consent to participate in the study or patient included under the emergency procedure in the absence of contactable relatives

You may not qualify if:

  • Patients treated with nutritional therapy at the time of admission (history of bariatric surgery or gastrectomy, malabsorptive pathologies such as short bowel, extensive intestinal resections, etc.).
  • In a palliative situation where life expectancy is \< 3 months
  • Patient taking part in another study with an impact on mortality or nutrition
  • Pregnant, breast-feeding or parturient woman
  • Patient unable to follow the protocol for any reason
  • Patient deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision
  • Patient under compulsory psychiatric care
  • Person under legal protection
  • Poor understanding of the French language

Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Sites (12)

CH Versailles

Chesnay, Yvelines, 78150, France

RECRUITING

CHU Angers

Angers, 49933, France

RECRUITING

CHU Caen

Caen, 14033, France

RECRUITING

CH Cholet

Cholet, 49300, France

RECRUITING

CHD La Roche sur Yon

La Roche-sur-Yon, 85925, France

NOT YET RECRUITING

CH La Rochelle

La Rochelle, 17000, France

RECRUITING

CH Chartres

Le Coudray, 28630, France

RECRUITING

CHU Rouen

Rouen, 76000, France

RECRUITING

CHU Nantes

Saint-Herblain, 44800, France

NOT YET RECRUITING

CH St Malo

St-Malo, 35043, France

RECRUITING

CHU Toulouse

Toulouse, 31059, France

NOT YET RECRUITING

CHU Tours

Tours, 37000, France

NOT YET RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Stroke

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Cerebrovascular DisordersBrain DiseasesCentral Nervous System DiseasesNervous System DiseasesVascular DiseasesCardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

  • Angélique CAMPION

    University Hospital, Angers

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE CARE
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Model Details: cluster randomisation in parallel arms
Sponsor Type
OTHER GOV
Responsible Party
SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

May 27, 2025

First Posted

July 15, 2025

Study Start

September 19, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

September 1, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2027

Last Updated

January 8, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-01

Data Sharing

IPD Sharing
Will share

Data will be shared upon reasonable request. Only de-identified data will be shared. Any data collected during the study may be shared. The protocol will be shared initially. Other documents may be shared at a later date upon request (e.g., the CRF to allow a collaborator to select the data they wish to access). The recipients of the data will be researchers. The data will be available for any purpose deemed relevant by the study investigator, based on a protocol provided by the requester, after verification of the obtaining of regulatory approvals, including the favorable opinion of an ethics committee.

Shared Documents
STUDY PROTOCOL
Time Frame
The data will be shared after signing a negotiated data transfer agreement ( data access agreement), for the duration specified in the agreement.
Access Criteria
The data will be made available via secure transfer (sharing platform approved by the university hospital: BlueFiles or Oodrive).

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