NCT04385537

The Ability of Pecan Consumption to Improve Vascular Function and Reduce Chronic Disease Risk in Aging Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Georgia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Background: To date, there are no published studies on the effects of pecans on vascular function following a high-fat meal. Purpose: To examine the impact of daily pecan consumption for a 4-week period on vascular health and other markers of cardiovascular disease risk in aging adults.

Detailed description

This will be a randomized, controlled trial in men and postmenopausal women (50-75y). Subjects will be randomized into one of the two study groups: a control group (CON) following their usual diet, or intervention group (PECAN) following their usual diet but also consuming 68g/day of pecans as a snack. There will be 3 visits: A Screening visit and a baseline and post-diet intervention visit (4-weeks). Anthropometrics, questionnaires, a fasting blood sample, and fasting vascular measures will be collected at each visit. Subjects will participate in a saturated fatty acid meal challenge in which additional blood, vascular measurements will be collected. Hypothesis: Daily pecan consumption will result in improved fasting blood lipids, vascular measures, antioxidant status, and appetite compared to the control group. Additionally, also the PECAN group will result in improved postprandial blood lipids and vascular measures compared to the control group.

Conditions

• Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	PECAN	Raw pecan halves without other changes to their habitual diet.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-17
• Primary completion: 2022-04-16
• Completion: 2022-04-16
• First posted: 2020-05-13
• Last updated: 2022-05-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States