Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Phase Angle

Influence of Mediterranean Diet on Phase Angle in a Sample of Adult Population: Results of a Pilot Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02840968

Enrollment

1464

Registered

2016-07-21

Start date

2010-01-31

Completion date

2016-05-31

Last updated

2016-07-21

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Conditions

Mediterranean Diet, Phase Angle

Brief summary

In this cross-sectional observational study the investigators evaluated the association between the adherence to the MD and PhA in a sample of adult population, stratified according to categories of sex, age, and BMI.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Caucasian Subjects * Healthy Subjects (defined as absence of a clinical condition that potentially influences fluid balance, ie, renal, endocrine, or myocardial disease, ascertained by participant questionnaire)

Exclusion criteria

* Hypocaloric diet in the last three months or specific nutritional regimens, including vegan or vegetarian diets, * Vitamin/mineral or antioxidant supplementation, * Clinical conditions that could influence fluid balance, including liver or renal failure, cancer, and acute or chronic inflammatory diseases, based on a complete medical examination and laboratory investigations, * Occasional or current of use of drugs that could influence fluid balance, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, hormone replacement therapy, diuretics weight-loss medications, anticonvulsivants and psychotropic agents, laxative use, * Altered thyroid hormone function tests or thyroid hormone treatment, * Alcohol abuse according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-V diagnostic criteria, * Patients with implanted pacemakers or defibrillators because of the theoretical possibility of interference with the device activity due to the field of current induced by the impedance measurements, * Subjects underweight with BMI\<18.5, * Subjects dropped out from the study since they refused to participate.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Adherence to Mediterranean Diet by Predimed Questionnaire	January 2010 - May 2016
Phase Angle by Bioimpedance Analysis	January 2010 - May 2016

Outcome results