NCT04598022

Revealing Microbiome Association With (Plant-based) Diet in Freshman

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Kiel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Aim of the study is to evaluate the impact of a vegan vs. vegetarian dietary pattern compared to an omnivore diet on body weight, saliva and stool microbiome profiles, as well as saliva, urine and plasma metabolome profile changes in freshmen after the first year at university/college.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	cross-sectional observation	observation of dietary patterns, body weight status, microbiome and metabolome profiles at the start of the first semester
OTHER	cross-sectional follow-up observation	follow-up observation of dietary patterns, body weight status,microbiome and metabolome profiles after one year

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-30
• Completion: 2025-12-30
• First posted: 2020-10-22
• Last updated: 2024-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany