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Postprandial Effect of Breakfast Glycemic Index on Vascular Function, Insulinemia and Cognitive Performance (BGI Study)

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Fundacion para la Investigacion y Formacion en Ciencias de la Salud

Status

Completed

Conditions

Healthy

Treatments

Other: High glycemic index breakfast
Other: Low glycemic index breakfast
Other: Control breakfast

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02616276
GRS 1192/B/15

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a crossover clinical trial aimed at adults (aged 20-40 years, with no cardiovascular disease), selected by consecutive sampling at urban primary care health clinics in Salamanca (Spain). Each subject will complete three interventions, with a washout period of one week: control breakfast (water), low glycemic index breakfast (apple, yogurt, walnuts and black chocolate) and high glycemic index breakfast (grape juice, bread and strawberry jam). The postprandial effect will be assessed at 60 and 120 minutes from each breakfast, measuring blood glucose and insulin and cognitive performance. Measurements will be performed of central blood pressure, augmentation index, pulse wave velocity, cardiac output and total peripheral vascular resistance at minutes (-10, 0, +15, +30, +45, +60, +75, +90, +105 and +120).

Full description

Objectives:

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the postprandial effect of low and high glycemic index breakfasts on vascular function, measured by central blood pressure, augmentation index and pulse wave velocity, in a sample of healthy young adults. The second objective is to assess the postprandial effect of low and high glycemic index breakfasts on blood glucose and insulin values in a sample of healthy young adults. The third and last objective is to assess the postprandial effect of low and high glycemic index breakfasts on cognitive performance in a sample of healthy young adults.

Design and setting:

A controlled crossover clinical trial, where each subject will complete three interventions (control breakfast, high glycemic index breakfast and low glycemic index breakfast), with a washout period of one week between each, and whose order will be determined by a randomization sequence generated using the Randomization.com software (http://www.randomization.com).

Study setting:

The study will be conducted in the primary care health area of Salamanca in the Research Unit of La Alamedilla, belonging to the Spanish Network for Preventive Activities and Health Promotion (redIAPP) and Salamanca Institute for Biomedical Research (IBSAL).

Study population:

The subjects of the study population will be selected by consecutive sampling in the primary care clinics of urban health centers in Salamanca (Spain) between 2015 and 2016. As this crossover clinical trial, a consecutive sampling will ensure comparability of the groups.

Intervention:

Each of the three scheduled visits will last approximately 2 and a half hours, and will be structured as follows:

Min -10: Measurement of clinical blood pressure, central blood pressure, and central hemodynamic parameters; evaluation of cognitive performance; laboratory test sampling to determine glucose and insulin blood levels.

Min 0: Measurement of central blood pressure and central hemodynamic parameters; intake of assigned breakfast (10 minutes).

Min +15, +30, +45: Measurement of central blood pressure and central hemodynamic parameters.

Min +60: Measurement of central blood pressure and central hemodynamic parameters; evaluation of cognitive performance; laboratory test sampling to determine glucose and insulin blood levels.

Min +75, +90, +105: Measurement of central blood pressure and central hemodynamic parameters.

Min +120: Measurement of central blood pressure and central hemodynamic parameters; evaluation of cognitive performance; laboratory test sampling to determine glucose and insulin blood levels.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Young adults.
  • Aged between 20 and 40 years.
  • Both sexes.
  • Those agree to sign the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

  • History of cardiovascular events (acute myocardial infarction, stroke, etc.).
  • History of hypertension, diabetes mellitus or dyslipidemia.
  • Pharmacological treatment for any of the above conditions.
  • Diagnosis of clinically demonstrable neurological and/or neuropsychological disease.
  • Excessive consumption of toxic substances.
  • Celiac patients and/or those intolerant to lactose.
  • Subjects on a low-calorie and/or low-sodium diet.
  • Pregnant women.
  • Those with any other circumstance that the investigators consider could interfere with the study procedures.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

40 participants in 3 patient groups

Control
Active Comparator group
Description:
Control breakfast
Treatment:
Other: Control breakfast
Other: Low glycemic index breakfast
Other: High glycemic index breakfast
Intervention 1
Experimental group
Description:
High glycemic index breakfast
Treatment:
Other: Control breakfast
Other: Low glycemic index breakfast
Other: High glycemic index breakfast
Intervention 2
Experimental group
Description:
Low glycemic index breakfast
Treatment:
Other: Control breakfast
Other: Low glycemic index breakfast
Other: High glycemic index breakfast

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