NCT06870578

Building Research for Intervention Development in Gliosis and Eating Habits

Fostering Patient-oriented Research in Cardiometabolic Disease Pathogenesis and Prevention

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 75 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to 1) use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to evaluate the effect of nutritious foods on inflammation in the human hypothalamus of children and 2) assess the feasibility and acceptability of nutritious food feeding intervention strategies in children with overweight or obesity.

Conditions

• Gliosis
• Child Obesity
• Eating

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Diet modification	In Study 2 only, children will be provided all meals for a 7-day period. Meals will consist of nutritious foods, calories provided will exceed the child's estimated daily caloric need, and children will be asked to consume meals ad libitum.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-03
• Primary completion: 2029-06-01
• Completion: 2029-06-01
• First posted: 2025-03-11
• Last updated: 2025-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States