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Trial of Specific Carbohydrate and Mediterranean Diets to Induce Remission of Crohn's Disease

NCT03058679 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 197

Last updated 2021-07-21

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Summary

This protocol is designed to compare the effectiveness of two dietary interventions for patients with Crohn's disease (CD): the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) and a Mediterranean style diet (MSD) that has been demonstrated to have numerous other health benefits. The two diets will be compared in terms of their ability to resolve both the symptoms and bowel inflammation that characterize this debilitating disease.

Conditions

  • Crohn Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Diet

food for the diet will be provided to the participants for 6 weeks and participants will follow the diet on their own for the remaining 6 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Crohn's and Colitis Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Pennsylvania

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • James D Lewis, MD, MSCE · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-29
Primary Completion
2020-03-01
Completion
2020-03-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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