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Diet and Migraine Study

NCT01859052 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2015-09-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to look at two different diets (a low carbohydrate diet and a low fat diet) for migraine prevention in overweight or obese persons with migraine. The overall aim is to test the theory that diet will improve migraine frequency and that such improvements will be associated with favorable changes in body weight, inflammation, and heart health.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Low carbohydrate diet

Subjects will follow the Atkins for Life diet. They will be given the book and a study dietitian will guide them through the induction, ongoing weight loss, pre-maintenance, and lifetime maintenance phases.

OTHER

Low calorie low fat diet

The diet will be a nutritionally balanced, hypocaloric diet with a deficit of 750 kcal/day as guided by TEE. The goal is to match the calorie deficit to the low-CHO diet

OTHER

AHA diet recommendations

given information in accordance with the diet and lifestyle recommendations of the American Heart Association.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Barbara L Peterlin, DO · The Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-05-31
Completion
2015-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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