NCT07480369Not yet recruiting
Vegan Diet and Immune-Inflammatory Outcomes in Asthma and Healthy Adults
The Effect of a Vegan Diet on Inflammatory and Immune Biomarkers in Adult Patients With Asthma and in Healthy Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This randomized controlled study evaluates the effects of a balanced vegan diet compared with a balanced omnivorous diet on inflammatory and immune response markers and clinical asthma parameters in healthy adults and individuals with mild to moderate asthma, aged 18 to 50. Participants will follow assigned dietary plans for 12 weeks with dietitian support delivered via digital tools.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 280 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 7 Mar 2026
- Start date
- Mar 2026
- Primary completion date
- Dec 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Medical University of Gdansk
- Diseases
- Asthma
- NCT number
- NCT07480369
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 280
- From Mar 2026 to the primary completion date, Dec 2028
- No sites listed in no 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
- Use of systemic corticosteroids (oral or intravenous) within the past 3 months
- Ongoing biological therapy for asthma (e.g., anti-IgE, anti-IL-5, anti-IL-4R)
- Recent asthma exacerbation requiring hospitalization or steroid burst (\<3 months)
Other illness
- Presence of other chronic autoimmune or inflammatory diseases
- Active infection or acute illness at the time of recruitment
- History of eating disorders
Other
- Severe asthma as per GINA criteria
- Pregnancy or lactation
- Adherence to specialized exclusion diets (e.g., ketogenic, low-FODMAP)
- Inability or unwillingness to participate in follow-up visits or comply with the protocol
Who the study is looking for
- For all groups:
- Aged 18-30 years
- Willing to adhere to assigned dietary plan (vegan or omnivorous) for 12 weeks
- Non-smoker for at least 5 years
- Body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m2
- For the asthma group:
- Clinical diagnosis of mild or moderate asthma (GINA criteria), made at least 12 months before enrollment
- Stable asthma status (no exacerbations or changes in therapy within the past 3 months)
- No change in pharmacotherapy during the study period
Age in the registry: 18 years to 50 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
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