NCT04450875

Efficacy of Nutritional Therapy With High Methionine Content in the Treatment of NAFLD

Efficacy of Nutritional Therapy With High Methionine Content in the Treatment of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 121 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Veracruzana · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To assess the effect of a methionine metabolism-based dietary strategy in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in order to reduce complications while improving the quality of life for patients.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled clinical trial with parallel design was performed, a ratio of at least one patient in the control group for each subject in the experimental group.

Conditions

• Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Experimental group (with diet)	Two nutritionists performed both diet instruction and 24-hour reminder monitoring monthly. At the end of the three-month follow-up, the 24-hour reminder data such as food consumed, daily rations, and the monthly average of milligrams of consumed methionine contained in the food, were recorded in a database for subsequent analysis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-24
• Primary completion: 2016-02-01
• Completion: 2017-11-01
• First posted: 2020-06-30
• Last updated: 2020-06-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico