NCT00181064

Atkins Diet for Difficult-to-Control Headaches in Teenagers

Use of the Atkins Diet for Adolescents With Chronic Daily Headache.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a 3-month pilot study of 10 adolescents with chronic daily headache. Teens will be placed on a modified Atkins diet and followed with 2 subsequent visits to assess for headache improvement.

Detailed description

Patients are placed on the diet and followed with various measures for 3 months. If the diet is helpful it is continued. Patients are still being enrolled as of 9/6/06.

Conditions

• Chronic Daily Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Modified Atkins diet	15 grams of carbohydrates per day - high fat diet

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2009-07-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States