NCT02720393

Impact of No-carrageenan Diet on Glucose Tolerance in Prediabetes

Impact of no Carrageenan Diet on Glucose Tolerance in Prediabetes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Participants will be randomly assigned to either regular or no-carrageenan prepared diets to determine whether the no-carrageenan leads to improvement in glucose tolerance. Hemoglobin A1c is the primary outcome measure.

Detailed description

Subjects will be randomly assigned to a diet. They will at onset have hemoglobin A1c values between 5.7% and 6.4%. Baseline glucose tolerance test will be performed, as well as measures of inflammation and fecal microbiome. Interim tests will be performed at six weeks. Subjects will participate for 12 weeks, at which time they will be re-evaluated.

Conditions

• Prediabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No-carrageenan diet	Diet of food items that have no carrageenan as selected by study dietician.
OTHER	Regular Diet	Diet of food items that have carrageenan as selected by study dietician

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-01
• Completion: 2018-12-01
• First posted: 2016-03-25
• Last updated: 2019-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States