NCT04801173

Ketogenic Diet in PCOS With Obesity and Insulin Resistance

Effect of Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet on Obese and Insulin-resistant Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: a Controlled Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the VLCKD randomized clinical trial is to demonstrate the superiority of very low calorie ketogenic diet with respect to the standard low calorie diet in reducing body weight and insulin resistance in obese and insulin resistant patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Detailed description

Consecutive patients coming to the Endocrinology and Diabetes Clinic of the S.Orsola hospital in Bologna with the suspicion of PCOS, during the study period, will be eligible to participate. In the screening phase, patients from the clinic conforming to the inclusion criteria will be invited to participate in the anovulation screening phase, lasting up to 8 weeks, during which measurements of LH, FSH, estradiol, progesterone and a gynecologic ultrasound will be done on 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th day of the presumed ovulatory cycle, or at any time if amenorrhea present. Consenting participants will provide written informed consent. Following the anovulation screening, the patients will be randomized in two arms of the study: 1. very low calorie ketogenic diet (VLCKD) and the 2. low calorie standard diet (LCD). The study is open label; thus, patients and investigators will not be blinded to treatment allocation due to the nature of the study intervention. The group assigned to the VLCKD will follow the VLCKD for 8 weeks, after which they will follow the LCD for the next 8 weeks. The group assigned to the LCD will follow the LCD for the entire length of the study (16 weeks.) At the start of the study, after 8 weeks and after 16 weeks, following measurements and tests will be done: 1. clinical examination with the measurement of height, body mass, circumference at the waist and hip level, arterial systolic and diastolic pressure, heart rate, Ferriman-Gallwey and videodermoscopic evaluation of hirsutism and bioimpedance body composition measurement; 2. blood will be taken for: lipid profile, hepatic transaminases, fasting glucose, fasting insulin, HbA1c, potassium, sodium, urea, calcium, phosphorus, total proteins, albumins, total bilirubin, uric acid, complete blood count, sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry measurement of testosterone, androstenedione, DHEA, 17OH-progesterone, 17OH-pregnenolone; 3. dietary interview; 4. psychological evaluation using the following questionnaires: Symptom Questionnaire, the Psychosocial index and the Psychological Well-Being scales.

Conditions

• PCOS
• Obesity
• Insulin Resistance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
COMBINATION_PRODUCT	Very low calorie ketogenic diet	Dietary intervention with a very low calorie ketogenic diet, using commercial products of the Pronokal PnK® method
BEHAVIORAL	Low calorie standard diet	Low calorie standard diet with no specified dietary supplement addition

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-02
• Primary completion: 2021-12-06
• Completion: 2021-12-06
• First posted: 2021-03-16
• Last updated: 2022-01-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy