Short-term Health Effects of Wild Blueberry Juice Consumption

University of Prince Edward Island

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pre-diabetes

Treatments: Other: Wild blueberry juice; Other: Placebo wild blueberry juice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02139878

UPEI HS 01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers at the University of Prince Edward Island want to learn about the health effects of wild blueberry juice.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes

Exclusion criteria

• have a body mass index of less than 20 and greater than 45 kg/m2.
• are less than 21 and greater than 65 years old at beginning of study
• have smoked or used tobacco within 6 months prior to the start of the study
• are pregnant, plan to become pregnant or become pregnant during the study
• have a history or presence of kidney disease, liver disease, certain cancers, gastrointestinal, other metabolic diseases, or malabsorption syndromes
• have type 2 diabetes and need to use oral diabetic drugs or insulin
• have an allergy or adverse reaction to blueberries

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Wild blueberry juice

Experimental group

Description:

240 ml wild blueberry juice

Treatment:

Other: Wild blueberry juice

Placebo wild blueberry juice

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

240 ml placebo wild blueberry juice

Treatment:

Other: Placebo wild blueberry juice