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Fat Cell Size and Overfeeding and Etopic Study

NCT01672632 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2021-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

It has been shown that large fat cells are associated with more risks for insulin resistance and more cardiovascular risk factors such as high cholesterol or triglycerides.

Conditions

  • Over Eating

Interventions

OTHER

Overfeeding

We overfed 40 young, healthy adults by 40% of their baseline energy requirements for 8 weeks. The diet consisted of 41% carbohydrate, 44% fat, and 15% protein.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eric Ravussin, PhD · Pennington Biomedical Research Center

  • Alok Gupta, MD · Pennington Biomedial Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-31
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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