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Trial of Specific Carbohydrate and Mediterranean Diets to Induce Remission of Crohn's Disease

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03058679

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Official title

Open Label, Randomized, Multicenter, Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Specific Carbohydrate and Mediterranean Diets to Induce Remission in Patients With Crohn's Disease

Brief summary

Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.

This protocol is designed to compare the effectiveness of two dietary interventions for patients with Crohn's disease (CD): the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and a Mediterranean style diet (MSD) that has been demonstrated to have numerous other health benefits. The two diets will be compared in terms of their ability to resolve both the symptoms and bowel inflammation that characterize this debilitating disease.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03058679
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
University of Pennsylvania
Other
Enrollment
197 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Sep 29, 2017 (Actual)
Primary completion
Mar 1, 2020 (Actual)
Completion
Mar 1, 2020 (Actual)
Last update posted
Jul 21, 2021

2017 – 2020

United States locations

U.S. sites
35
U.S. states
21
U.S. cities
30
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Arizona Tucson Arizona 85724 —
UCSF Colitis and Crohn's Disease Center San Francisco California 94115 —
University of Colorado Denver Denver Colorado 80204 —
Emory University Atlanta Georgia 30322 —
Atlanta Gastroenterology Atlanta Georgia 30342 —
University of Chicago Chicago Illinois 60614 —
NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston Illinois 60201 —
Northwestern University Evanston Illinois 60208 —
Indiana University Health University Hospital Indianapolis Indiana 46202 —
The University of Louisville Louisville Kentucky 40202 —
University of Maryland Baltimore Baltimore Maryland 21201 —
Boston Children's Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02115 —
Clinical Research Institute of Michigan Chesterfield Michigan 48047 —
Troy Gastroenterology Troy Michigan 48092 —
The University of Minnesota Minneapolis Minnesota 55455 —
Minnesota Gastroenterology, P.A Plymouth Minnesota 55446 —
Mayo Clinic - Rochester Rochester Minnesota 55905 —
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon New Hampshire 03756 —
NYU Langone Medical Center New York New York 10016 —
Weill Cornell - NewYork Presbyterian New York New York 10021 —
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York New York 10029 —
Lenox Hill Hospital New York New York 10075 —
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina 27599 —
Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System) Charlotte North Carolina 28203 —
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem North Carolina 27157 —
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio 45267 —
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Cleveland Ohio 44106 —
Ohio State University - Wexner Medical Center Columbus Ohio 43210 —
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104 —
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15213 —
Lifespan Health System Providence Rhode Island 02903 —
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville Tennessee 37232 —
University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah 84112 —
Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle Washington 98101 —
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison Wisconsin 53706 —

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