NCT03994432Completed
Effect of Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity in Patients With Endometriosis
Effect of Mediterranean Diet and Physical Activity in Patients With Symptomatic Endometriosis in Therapy With Estrogen-progestins or Progestins: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Jul 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The main aim of this study is to evaluate whether a dietary recommendation based on the Mediterranean diet's principles associated with a regular aerobic physical activity, according to the "7 minutes workout", may improve pain symptoms in patients with symptomatic endometriosis (pelvic pain with numerical rating scale, NRS ≥ 4), in therapy with estrogen-progestins or progestins.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 140 (actual)
- First submitted
- 25 Mar 2019
- Start date
- 10 Jan 2019
- Primary completion date
- 20 Jul 2020
- Lead sponsor
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
- Diseases
- Endometriosis
- NCT number
- NCT03994432
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 140
- From 10 Jan 2019 to the primary completion date, 20 Jul 2020
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- patients in note for all kind of surgery
Other illness
- associated diseases that cause pelvic pain regardless of the presence of endometriosis, or chronic intestinal diseases (Crohn's disease or ulcerative rectocolitis).
- metabolic diseases that require specific dietary indications (diabetes and celiac disease, food allergies).
Other
- women who conduct a strong physical activity.
- women who follow vegetarian-vegan diet regimens.
- medical contraindications to proposed physical activity.
Who the study is looking for
- age between 18 and 45 years
- body mass index between 18 and 29.9
- women with symptomatic endometriosis (pelvic pain with NRS score ≥ 4), in therapy with estro-progestins or progestins
- not seeking conception
Age in the registry: 18 years to 45 years · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Buggio Centro Endometriosi e Metrorragie Clinica Mangiagalli, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Milan | Italy | Unknown status |
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