NCT02148458

Short Term Intermittent Fasting and Mediterranean Diet

Metabolic and Molecular Effects of a Mediterranean Diet and Intermittent Fasting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 53 (actual)
• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effects of intermittent fasting in subjects that are eating a Mediterranean diet or a Western diet. This study is part of ongoing research in the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases at Washington University School of Medicine.

Detailed description

The primary objective of this study is to determine whether or not IF, independently of changes in quality of diet, reduces the level of chronic inflammation as evidenced by a decrease in high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), as the main outcome measure.

Conditions

• Overweight
• Pre-hypertension
• Hypertension
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Glucose Intolerance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mediterranean diet	Mediterranean diet for 8 weeks, followed by 8 weeks of Mediterranean diet with intermittent fasting (i.e. 2 non-consecutive days of fasting per week)
OTHER	Control group	control group eating their usual Western diet for 8 weeks, followed by 8 weeks of usual diet with intermittent fasting (i.e. 2 non-consecutive days of fasting per week).

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2014-05-28
• Last updated: 2021-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States