Brazil Nut Consumed on the Metabolic Profile, Oxidative Stress and Nutritive Microcirculatory Patterns

Rio de Janeiro State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Brazil Nut

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00937599

Biovasc - 01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose this research is to check if Brazil Nuts consumed improvement the metabolic profile, state redox and endothelial function in obese adolescents.

Full description

The purpose this research is to check if Brazil Nuts consumed improvement the metabolic profile (lipid profile, glucose, insulin), state redox (about glutathione peroxidase, isoprostane and LDL-ox) and endothelial function (by videocapillaroscopy) in obese adolescents (12-18 years).

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

pubertal girls obese (BMI > 30 kg/m) -

Exclusion criteria

Consumption of nuts Loss weight before the research chronic disease (hypertension)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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18 participants in 1 patient group

Brazil Nuts

Experimental group

Description:

The first group consumed the brazil nuts and the other group placebo (lactose pills)

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Brazil Nut