Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: Exenatide Byetta weight loss energy expenditure normal volunteers
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 28
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to find out how exenatide causes weight loss. Specifically, the study is assessing how exenatide may change how people take in energy (energy intake), as well as how it may effect how people use energy (energy expenditure).

Detailed description:
The bioenergetics study is looking at how and why the diabetes drug exenatide causes people to lose weight.Bioenergetics is the study of how your body burns calories.

Adults 18-65 who do not have diabetes and have a body mass index (BMI) between 30 and 40 may be eligible. Women who could get pregnant must be on birth control during the study and women who are pregnant cannot participate in the study.

Subjects will take exenatide for 12 weeks. There are 6 study visits in the Univ. Wisconsin Hospital General Clinical Research Center. Visits range from 1 to 6 hours and include blood and urine tests, resting metabolic rate testing over a four hour period, physical exam, ECG, and a be bone mineral density testing at another clinic during 2 clinic visits of the study.

All study procedures and testing are free of charge.

Arms:
arm 1: Exenatide. Dose was 5 microgram for 2 weeks that was increased to 10 microgram for 10 weeks Each subject serves as their own control for outcome measures taken before and during drug treatment.

Interventions: intervention 1: Exenatide
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Exenatide dose was 5 microgram for 2 weeks that was increased to 10 microgram for 10 weeks of treatment.

Protocol document: