Tests a culturally adapted diet in Puerto Rican adults with heart and metabolic risk
Tests a culturally tailored diet in adults with diabetes, obesity or high blood pressure.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Culturally Adapted Dietary Clinical Trial in PR
Key facts
- Where
- San Juan, Puerto RicoSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 30 and 65 years old?
Source: NCT05962372, who can take part
Where in Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical InvestigationSan Juan, Puerto RicoTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
- Trial code
- NCT05962372
- Record updated
- 28 July 2026
- Original description
This project will determine whether a diet culturally adapted to adults in Puerto Rico can effectively decrease cardiometabolic risk factors. This will help define a culturally-appropriate, feasible, and sustainable diet intervention aimed at reducing cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes, and obesity outcomes.Read full original descriptionShow less
Culturally Adapted Dietary Clinical Trial in PR: Puerto Rico Evaluation of a Culturally Informed Sustainable Intervention for Optimal Nutrition (PRECISION)
This project will determine whether a diet culturally adapted to adults in Puerto Rico can effectively decrease cardiometabolic risk factors. This will help define a culturally-appropriate, feasible, and sustainable diet intervention aimed at reducing cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes, and obesity outcomes.
Inclusion: Age 30-65y old at the time of enrollment; Non-institutionalized; Living in PR at the time of recruitment and for at least the previous year and not planning to move from the island within the next 3 years; Able to answer questions without assistance; Having a cellphone with the capacity to receive text messages and be willing to receive daily text messages from the study on the designated cellphone number; Having at least one of the following:; elevated BMI; elevated waist circumference; self-reported physician-diagnosed hypertension or use of hypertension medication or measured high blood pressure at the baseline visit; self-reported physician-diagnosed pre-diabetes or measured pre-diabetes at the baseline visit; self-reported physician-diagnosed dyslipidemia or use of lipid-lowering agents or laboratory values confirming dyslipidemia.
Exclusion: Gastrointestinal or chronic condition that would impact eating behaviors or nutritional status; Intolerance or allergies to legumes (i.e.: beans and nuts), vegetable oils (i.e.: corn, olive, canola), or fresh produce; Self-reported physician-diagnosed type 1 or type 2 diabetes or use of diabetes medication (including insulin) or diabetes-diagnosis values confirmed by laboratory; Under 30 or over 65 years of age (on the day of the interview); Currently not living in Puerto Rico or not lived on the island for at least 1 year or planning to move within 3 years; Institutionalized; Not able to answer questions without assistance; Not having at least 1 of the five listed metabolic criteria; Self-reported pregnancy; Living with another person participating in the study; Participating in another research study that conflicts with PRECISION.