NCT02651480

A Nutritional Intervention in Police Officers

• Status: Suspended
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed study seeks to test the effect of a plant-based dietary intervention on cardiovascular risk factors in police officers.

Detailed description

This study tests the hypotheses that a low-fat, plant-based (vegan) diet improves body weight, plasma lipid concentrations, blood pressure, and, in individuals with type 2 diabetes, glycemic control, that a low-fat, plant-based diet improves health-related quality of life as measured by the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36), and that a low-fat, plant-based diet improves mood, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-Revised (CESD-R).

Conditions

• Overweight
• Blood Pressure
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Plant-based diet	Weekly instructions will be given to the participants in the intervention group about following vegan diet.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Control Group	Unrestricted diet with no instruction.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2026-12-01
• Completion: 2026-12-01
• First posted: 2016-01-11
• Last updated: 2025-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States