Pizza Meal Challenge and Immunometabolism (PIMETA)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Pizza meal challenge

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04175249

PIMETA

Details and patient eligibility

About

High salt intake is a major risk factor for cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart disease and kidney failure. Pizza is a popular salty food. In this exploratory pilot study, the effects of a pizza meal challenge on immunometabolism in healthy subjects will be tested.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy men and women

Exclusion criteria

• Severe, manifest illnesses in need of treatment
• Pathological lab results
• Inability to understand significance and scope of the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Pizza meal challenge

Experimental group

Description:

Vegetarian pizza containing 10 grams of salt

Treatment:

Other: Pizza meal challenge