NCT02116829

Is There Room for Butter in a Healthy Diet?

Is There Room for Butter in a Healthy Diet? - A Randomized Controlled Dietary Human Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to examine the effects in humans of a moderate butter intake on risk markers of cardiovascular disease compared to a diet with the same amount of olive oil (refined and therefore without polyfenols). The primary parameters are total cholesterol, LDL- and HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. The secondary parameters are risk markers of diabetes type 2; plasma glucose and insuling as well as the inflammatory marker hs-CRP.

Conditions

• Atherosclerosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Danish butter	The effect of butter intake versus olive oil (refined) intake on blood lipids (primarily)
OTHER	Olive oil

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2014-04-17
• Last updated: 2014-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark