NCT04223323Completed
Effects of Almond Consumption on the Human Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Metabolic Health
SNACKing Study: Effects of Snacking on the Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Metabolism
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 6 Dec 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The proposed work will investigate the effect of almond consumption as a snack on human gastrointestinal microbiota and on metabolic health.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 40 (actual)
- First submitted
- 12 Nov 2019
- Start date
- 10 Feb 2020
- Primary completion date
- 20 Dec 2023
- Lead sponsor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT04223323
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 40
- From 10 Feb 2020 to the primary completion date, 20 Dec 2023
- 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
- Currently taking lipid-lowering medications, oral hypoglycemic agents, or insulin, or medications known to impact bowel function.
- Abuse drugs
- Have taken antibiotics during the previous 2 months
- Bariatric surgery
Other illness
- Physician diagnosed metabolic or gastrointestinal diseases
- Evidence of liver disease, including primary biliary cirrhosis or gallbladder disease, constipation
- Allergic to nuts
- Allergic to lidocaine or other topical anesthetics
Lab values
- Fasting blood glucose \>126 mg/dL
- Elevation in serum transaminases (i.e. \>3 times the upper limit of normal)
Other
- Blood pressure \>160/100 mm Hg
- Anemia
- Pregnant, breastfeeding or postmenopausal
- Smoker, tobacco use
- Consume \> 2 alcoholic beverages/day
- Have had \> 5% weight change in the past month or \> 10% change in the past year
- Unable to consume the experimental treatments (almonds or pretzels)
- Gallbladder removal
Who the study is looking for
- Males \& Females
- 30-60 years of age
- BMI 25-34.9 kg/m\^2
- Ability to drop off fecal sample within 15 minutes of defecation
Age in the registry: 30 years to 60 years · Sex: All · Accepts 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Urbana | United States | Unknown status |
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