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Glycemic Index of Diabetes Specific Nutrition Formulation (NUC-RDM)

Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Healthy participants with normal BMI
Registration Number
CTRI/2023/04/051530
Lead Sponsor
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation
Brief Summary

Research studies have shown that lifestyle; in particular dietary aspects play an important role in preventing / increasing the burden of the chronic diseases. Dietary habits could therefore be modified to exert a positive impact in the prevention and treatment. It has been suggested that the high glycemic carbohydrate foods -those foods containing carbohydrates which elicit rapid blood glucose rise and thereby increase the insulin demand leading to hyper insulinemia, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Hence, there is a need to understand the blood glucose raising potential of foods in India to be of an important tool to aid in the prevention and or management of diabetes and its complication. Thus, evolved the concept of ‘Glycemic Index’ (GI)which ranks the foods, based on the speed at which the food raises the blood glucose in a scale of 0 to 100, 100 indicating high glycemic index corresponds to oral glucose’s GI. Today, India leading the world with the largest number of diabetic volunteers causing a heavy economic burden to the country urgently needs to look at cost effective strategies to combat this situation. A cost-effective dietary approach like estimating and understanding the role of glycemic index of various Indian foods in the lifestyle related diseases like diabetes is urgently needed.



Aim: To measure glycemic index (GI) of diabetes specific nutrition formulation (NUC-RDM)

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Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Not Yet Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
15
Inclusion Criteria

Age 18 to 45 years BMI greater than equal to 18.5 to less than equal to 22.9 kg/ m2 (asper WHO cut off for normal BMI) Both male and female Willingness to consume the test foods no known food allergy or intolerance; no medications known to affect glucose tolerance (excluding oralcontraceptives) — stable doses of oral contraceptives, acetylsalicylicacid, thyroxin, vitamins and mineral supplements or drugs to treathypertension or osteoporosis are acceptable.

Exclusion Criteria

a known history of diabetes mellitus or the use of anti-hyperglycemicdrugs or insulin to treat diabetes and related conditions pregnant or lactating women a major medical or surgical event requiring hospitalization within thepreceding 3 months; the presence of disease or drug(s) which influence digestion andabsorption of nutrients; the use of steroids, protease inhibitors or antipsychotics (all of which have major effects on glucose metabolism and body fat distribution).

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Glycemic index, Glycemic Response and GI category of food productsFor both intervention and comparator agents capillary blood samples will be collected at -5,0 (fasting state) and at 15,30,45,60,90,120 mins from the first sip of test and reference foods. Testing of all foods will be done on separate days
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Madras Diabetes Research Foundation

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Chennai, TAMIL NADU, India

Madras Diabetes Research Foundation
🇮🇳Chennai, TAMIL NADU, India
Mrs Sudha Vasudevan
Principal investigator
044439688888
s2r_7@mdrf.in

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