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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Obesity, Weight Loss, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00186459

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Official title

GCRC-CAP-Tracey McLaughlin, MD

Brief summary

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The goal of the study is to define the roles played by resistance to insulin-mediated glucose disposal (insulin resistance) and circulating plasma insulin concentrations in: 1) ability to lose weight; 2) reduction of risk for coronary heart disease as a result of weight loss. We hypothesize that in the setting of caloric restriction, manipulating endogenous insulin concentrations will not alter ability of subjects to lose weight, but will lead to different reduction in CHD risk factors. To test this hypothesis, two parallel studs will be performed. First, obese insulin-resistant individuals will be randomized to one of two equally-hypocaloric diets that vary moderately in proportion of carbohydrate and mono/polyunsaturated fats (lower carbohydrate diet will be associated with greater reduction in endogenous insulin secretion). Second, diabetics treated with insulin secretagogues will be compared to diabetics treated with insulin sensitizers with respect to the same outcomes (secretagogues increase insulin secretion and insulin sensitizers decrease insulin concentrations). Endpoints include weight loss, change in insulin resistance, blood pressure, lipid and lipoproteins, markers of endothelial function, daylong insulin and glucose concentrations: these will be compared, in each of the parallel studies, between the group with insulin-stimulating intervention vs the group with the insulin-sparing intervention.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00186459
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Stanford University
Other
Enrollment
58 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 65 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Sep 30, 2000
Primary completion
Aug 30, 2017
Completion
Aug 30, 2017
Last update posted
Dec 3, 2024

2000 – 2017

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California 94305

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