Low Carb Diets & Exercise for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Reduction

University of Surrey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: low carbohydrate diet; Behavioral: low carbohydrate diet and exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01176084

Lowcarbex_v1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purposes of this study are:

To investigate the effects of a 6 month low carbohydrate diet in obese men on markers of heart health including blood fats, blood clotting factors, inflammatory markers and levels of body fat.

To investigate the added effect on heart health that regular moderate exercise may have when combined with a low carbohydrate diet in obese men.

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 21 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• male
• 21-65 years
• body mass index (BMI) 27-40kg/m2
• not currently losing weight
• physically able to exercise at moderate intensity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

56 participants in 2 patient groups

low carbohydrate diet

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: low carbohydrate diet

diet & exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: low carbohydrate diet and exercise