NCT00662142

Effect of 8-Week Dietary DHA Supplementation on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolic Function

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 8 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to determine if 8-week dietary treatment with the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) improves attention performance and associated cortical activity and metabolism in 8 - 10 year old males that were not breast-fed during infancy.

Conditions

• Healthy
• Attention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	docosahexaenoic acid	DHA 400 mg/day (200mg twice daily), vs DHA 1200 mg/day (400 mg three times daily), vs placebo; 1:1:1 ratio

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-01-01
• Completion: 2008-01-01
• First posted: 2008-04-21
• Last updated: 2013-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States