# Fat Metabolism and Melanocortin 3 Receptors in African Americans

> **NCT01851421** · — · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)** · enrollment: 88 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Obesity
- Healthy Volunteers

## Interventions

_None listed._

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01851421
- **Lead sponsor:** Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- **Sponsor class:** NIH
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2013-09-23
- **Primary completion:** 2020-10-13
- **Final completion:** 2021-06-28
- **Target enrollment:** 88 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Slow/Insufficient accrual
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-30


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01851421

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01851421, "Fat Metabolism and Melanocortin 3 Receptors in African Americans". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01851421. Licensed CC0.

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