A Single-Center, Prospective, Pilot Study to Compare the Effect of Diet in Overweight or Obese Patients With Psoriasis on Light Therapy

A Single-Center, Prospective, Single-Blind, Pilot Study to Compare the Effect of Diet in Overweight or Obese Patients With Psoriasis on Light Therapy

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02193919

Enrollment

Registered

2014-07-18

Start date

2007-03-31

Completion date

2008-05-31

Last updated

2014-07-18

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Conditions

Psoriasis

Keywords

psoriasis

Brief summary

Weight loss may help psoriasis. Phototherapy helps psoriasis. Combining the two treatments may help even more. Determining if a high protein diet vs a low protein diet results in improving psoriais may help lead to future dietary effects on psoriasis therapy

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* PSA greater 10 * BMI greater than 30

Exclusion criteria

* PSA less than 10 * less than 18 years old

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Does weight decrease the amount of UVB needed to clear psoriasis	12 weeks	3 cohorts, all get UVB thrice per week one cohort placebo diet one cohort south beach diet one cohort ornish diet I evaluated PASI 75 improvement within each cohort 0 Adverse Events

Outcome results