NCT02407522

The Improvements of Dietary Supplement of Black Rice on Metabolic Syndrome

The Improvements of Dietary Supplement of Black Rice on Metabolic Syndrome and Its Correlation With Metabolism of Gut Microbiota

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 101 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sun Yat-sen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to thoroughly investigate how the interaction between black rice and human gut microbiota affects metabolic diseases, this study will recruit patients with Metabolic Syndrome (MS) and provide them with dietary supplementation of black rice (50 g/day) for 3 months to observe its effect on the development of MS. The focuses of this project are to elucidate how black rice consumption affects the composition and metabolism of intestinal bacteria as well as the development of MS, and to further analyze whether the changes in intestinal bacteria are associated with the changes in MS improvements.

Conditions

• Metabolic Syndrome X

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Black rice	They asked to keep their normal life style during intervention
OTHER	follow-up	They asked not to consume any black rice or excess amount of food rich in anthocyanin compared to their normal life style, such as grapes, blueberry, red wine, black bean during intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2015-04-03
• Last updated: 2015-04-03