NCT02854111

Using of Ice Cream for Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus

Using of Ice Cream for Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus and Impaired Glucose Tolerance

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ramathibodi Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall global prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is rising. Based on the latest Thai National Health Examination Survey, an estimated 3.2 million people had DM, of whom one-third was undiagnosed. The inexpensive oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is a more sensitive and reliable test of DM than fasting plasma glucose (FPG) or HbA1c, and is recommended for diagnosing DM and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). Although the OGTT provides useful diagnostic information, poor patient tolerance of glucose solutions is inevitable.

Detailed description

Regarding the diagnosis of DM, oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) identifies about 2% more individuals than does fasting plasma glucose (FPG). Hence OGTT is the method that has high sensitivity compared to other methods for diagnosis of IGT (impaired glucose tolerance) and diabetes. However, standard OGTT with 75-g glucose has poor patient tolerance and might cause reactive hypoglycemia. The alternatives for 75-g glucose would help for screening of DM with better tolerance. There were previous studies investigated substitutes for oral glucose solution with cookies and muffin. In the present study we hypothesized that an alternative food such as ice cream, a favorite dessert, can use for evaluation of the diagnosis of DM and IGT instead of standard 75-g glucose.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ice cream	The ice cream was made by nutritionists in Ramathibodi Hospital. It consisted of cornstarch, milk, sucrose, milk powder, egg yolk, and banana which contained carbohydrate 73.9 g, fat 27.7 g, protein 18.9 g for a total of 620.9 kcal with a cost of 35 bahts. The time for complete ingesting 75-g glucose and ice cream was 5 and 15 minutes, respectively.
OTHER	75 g-glucose	The 75-g glucose is used for standard oral glucose tolerance test.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2016-08-03
• Last updated: 2016-10-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand