Chocolate Dynamic Vessel Analysis

Querques Giuseppe

Status: Completed

Conditions: Retinal Vascular

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Dark chocolate; Dietary Supplement: Milk Chocolate

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05227248

FondazioneSanRaffaele

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims at evaluating the effect of dark chocolate consumption on anatomy and functionality of retinal blood vessels by comparing these same parameters after milk chocolate consumption.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age of 18 years or older
• Healthy volunteers
• No vascular diseases
• No ocular diseases
• Volunteers capable of understanding informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patient unable to follow the instructions
• Patient unable to come back for follow-up
• opacity of lens, cornea, or vitreous
• Allergies that contraindicate pupil dilation
• Eye diseases
• Myopia greater than -8.0 Diopter (D),
• Hyperopia greater than 5.0 D
• Astigmatism greater than -3.0 D

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Main study arm

Experimental group

Description:

Patients received intervention 1 and then intervention 2 after 7 weeks

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Milk Chocolate

Dietary Supplement: Dark chocolate