Modified Atkins Diet and Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Hadassah Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obese Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Treatments: Other: modified Atkins diet; Other: ADA recommended diet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00552890

atkins-hmo-ctil

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized control trial compared the influence of an Atkins diet to that of the ADA recommended diet on Type 2 diabetic obese patients during a one-year follow-up period

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Type 2 diabetic patients age 35-75 years
• BMI 30-39.9kg/m
• HbA1C>7%
• Not receiving insulin
• Micro-albumin excretion<60 mg/day

Exclusion criteria

• Serum creatinine level > 1.4 mg per deciliter
• Diastolic blood pressure > 100 mmHg or systolic blood pressure > 180mmHg
• Liver disease
• LDL cholesterol > 160 mg per deciliter despite lipid-lowering treatment
• Use of psychiatric medications
• Osteoporosis
• Cancer
• Food allergies, and
• Low carbohydrate diet in the past 6 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

ATK

Experimental group

Description:

modified Atkins diet

Treatment:

Other: modified Atkins diet

ADA

Experimental group

Description:

subjects assigned to follow ADA recommended diet for 1 year

Treatment:

Other: ADA recommended diet