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Dietary Interventions and Butyrate Production in Behçet's Patients

NCT03274648 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2020-01-28

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Summary

A dietary intervention trial will be performed on patients affected by Behçet's syndrome. Three different diets will be compared, analyzing their effects on the gut microbiota composition, on endogenous butyrate production and on the general symptoms in Behçet's patients.

Conditions

  • Behcet Syndrome

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Oral butyrate

Patients follow the habitual diet supplemented with 2.4g/day of oral butyrate

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Vegetarian diet

Patients follow a vegetarian diet containing inulin and resistant starch-rich foods, including no meat and fish, but containing eggs and dairy products

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Habitual diet

Patients follow the habitual diet

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-27
Primary Completion
2019-05-01
Completion
2019-07-05

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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