Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02105805
Weight Loss as Treatment in Heart Disease
Intentional Weight Loss as Treatment in Obese Patients With Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
30 obese moderate-to-severe heart failure patients will be randomized to intervention or control in groups of 5-10 subjects. All will receive dietetic advice according to randomization and according to the European Heart Association. Intervention subjects will initiate with 8 weeks low energy diet, 800-1000 kcal/d by formula diet and subsequent four weeks reintroduction to regular foods supplying 1200 kcal/d substituting two daily meals with formula meal replacement. Control subjects are advised to follow the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations. Patients will be monitored by blood sampling and assessed by change in physical performance.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Dietetic group sessions | Group sessions to improve dietary adherence |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-08-01
- Completion
- 2011-08-01
- First posted
- 2014-04-07
- Last updated
- 2014-04-07
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02105805. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.