Microbiome and Health Indicators in People With Obesity, Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Undergoing a Lifestyle Intervention
- Conditions
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2ObesityPreDiabetes
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Intensive interventionBehavioral: Non-intensive intervention
- Registration Number
- NCT05372445
- Lead Sponsor
- National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina
- Brief Summary
The incidence of type 2 diabetes worldwide is growing rapidly, being one of the fastest growing global health emergencies of the 21st century according to the International Diabetes Federation. In MicrobiAr the investigators seek to achieve type 2 diabetes remission through a plant-based diet and lifestyle intervention identifying and characterizing key changes on the gut microbiome during clinical transitions. Specifically, the investigators aim to characterize and follow-up metabolic pathways from gut microbiome and how they evolve as long as health indicators do over the 2 years of this study.
- Detailed Description
The present study has 2 stages, one cross-sectional and the other longitudinal. In the cross-sectional stage, a characterization of a single sampling of 480 people divided into 4 cohorts of 120 people each will be carried out: reference controls, subjects with obesity, with prediabetes and with type 2 diabetes. A clinical history will be made, as long as a 7-day food record and clinical laboratory tests. Anthropometric assessment will be carried out by recording weight, height, waist and hip circumference, determination of waist/hip ratios, as well as taking 4 skinfolds, bicipital, triceps, subscapular and suprailiac, arm and calf measurements and force through a dynamometer. The 480 people will also undergo gut microbiota and microbiome tests from stool samples.
During the longitudinal stage, subjects of each cohort (120 with obesity, 120 with prediabetes and 120 with type 2 diabetes) will be randomly divided into two intervention groups (with 60 subjects each). One group will follow a non-intensive intervention (personalized face-to-face follow-up every 2 months). The other group will follow an intensive intervention (personalized face-to-face follow-up every 3 weeks and a weekly remote group meeting). In both cases, a food plan will be followed based on the recommendations of the nutrition service of the Hospital de ClĂnicas, Argentina, in accordance with recommendations from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2019 guidelines with an emphasis on plant-based diet and whole foods.
Follow-up and nutritional guidance
Groups of 15 subjects from each intervention arm will be led by 3 healthcare professionals. In every case, the group's functions will be:
1. Obtain a unique 7 day food-recall from all subjects, and upload the data to "MAR24" platform (for the transversal stage).
2. Obtain a 2 day food-recall (including one day from the weekend) from all subjects every two months, and upload the data to "MAR24" platform (for the longitudinal stage).
3. Complete a shared spreadsheet with clinical, biochemical and anthropometric parameters of every subject's visits to the hospital.
4. Collaborate in Whatsapp unidirectional groups. In the non-intensive arm, the messages will only be to remember patients about their visits to the hospital, while in the intensive arm it will also be about other activities, such as workshops.
5. Detect subjects who miss their appointments, to establish personalized contact and apply motivational strategies in order to reduce dropout risk.
To accomplish the mentioned tasks, the group leaders will have support from several students from nutrition careers and healthcare professionals.
Influence of physical activity and exercise
A structured physical exercise protocol will be delivered to all subjects. This protocol includes a warm-up, 3 series of 1 minute of eight different strength exercises, with 2 a minute rest. The objective is to accomplish three sessions per week, which can be done in person and supervised by specialists in the Hospital, or online via video call. Subjects will have to record the amount of achieved repetitions in each series of every exercise already done by each session.
The training volume will be adapted according to the subject's capabilities and progress, with the objective of increasing the number of series and reducing resting time between exercises.
Specific follow-up and support proposals for the intensive intervention
In addition to the already mentioned tasks in the follow-up and nutritional guidance's section, for the intensive intervention subjects, group's functions will also be:
1. Collaborate in the assembly and execution of virtual food education workshops;
2. Coordinate weekly meetings with the 15 assigned subjects, where adherence should be encouraged during the first 3 months. Then, meetings will be spaced out at a minimum of 15 days to 30 days;
3. Contribute to the planning of various activities that seek to maximize adherence to the clinical trial of the entire intensive intervention group;
4. Coordinate face-to-face visits for nutritional support every 3 weeks for each subject;
5. Monitoring adherence through 48-hour records (1 day a week and 1 day a weekend) using the MAR24 platform. Data will be collected by phone calls or video calls to each subject with a frequency of 1 call per month.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 480
Not provided
- Subjects with obesity, pre-diabetes medicated with metformin or another drug for diabetes or obesity
- Subjects with type 2 diabetes medicated with another drug that is not metformin
- Subjects with type 2 diabetes diagnosed over 6 years
- Subjects with type 2 diabetes requiring insulin
- Chronic kidney disease grade greater than 3 (measured by EPI)
- Subjects with type 1 diabetes
- Intestinal diseases, Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease
- Use of antibiotics in the last 3 months
- Pregnancy, lactation
- Psychiatric disorders
- Eating disorder
- Gastric bypass surgery
- Transplanted people
- Oncological pathology diagnosed less than 5 years
- Subjects who do not wish to sign the informed consent
- Subjects who do not agree to participate in the study over the 2 years follow-up
- Subjects who do not have electronic devices and the internet to hold virtual meetings
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Type 2 Diabetes Group B Intensive intervention People between 30-60 years old, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes assigned to the intensive intervention. Obesity Group B Intensive intervention People between 30-60 years old, diagnosed with obesity assigned to the intensive intervention. Prediabetes Group A Non-intensive intervention People between 30-60 years old, diagnosed with prediabetes assigned to the non-intensive intervention. Type 2 Diabetes Group A Non-intensive intervention People between 30-60 years old, diagnosed with type 2 diabetes assigned to the non-intensive intervention. Prediabetes Group B Intensive intervention People between 30-60 years old, diagnosed with prediabetes assigned to the intensive intervention. Obesity Group A Non-intensive intervention People between 30-60 years old, diagnosed with obesity assigned to the non-intensive intervention.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Clinical improvements in people with type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, or obesity at 2 years, checked every 6 months These clinical improvements will be defined as:
1. In the group of subjects with type 2 diabetes, remission to non-diabetic stage. Considering remission as measuring HbA1c values lower than 6,5% at least 6 months after beginning the lifestyle intervention and 3 months after cessation of any pharmacotherapy, according to the "Consensus Report: Definition and Interpretation of Remission in Type 2 Diabetes", Diabetes Care 2021;44(10):2438-2444.
2. In the group of subjects with prediabetes, remission to normal glycemia / HbA1c values. Considering normal glycemia lower than 100 mg/gl and HbA1c lower than 5.7%.
3. In the group of overweight-obese subjects, a 10% decrease in weight compared to baseline weight, maintained during the second year of follow-up.
Any of the three possible situations will be considered as a clinical improvement event.Gut microbiota metabolic pathways changes at 2 years, checked every 6 months Increase in the number of gut microbiota metabolic pathways possibly expressed in subjects of intensive intervention compared to their baseline states and also compared to subjects of the non-intensive intervention. This metric refers to possibly expressed metabolic pathways predicted from shotgun metagenomics analysis related to regulation of inflammatory processes, carcinogenesis, intestinal barrier function, oxidative stress, production of SCFAs, regulation of immune response and inflammation, production of derivative aromatic amino acids, regulation of bile acids (synthesis of derivative metabolites of cholesterol), regulation of the level of phospholipid synthesis (anaerobic metabolism of choline).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Insulin resistance at 2 years Measured by HOMA-IR, HOMA-B or triglyceride: HDL-C ratio.
Gut microbiota diversity changes at 2 years, checked every 6 months Increase of diversity in gut microbiota observed in subjects of the intensive intervention compared to subjects of the non-intensive intervention and also compared to their baseline states.
Metabolic syndrome regression at 2 years, checked every 6 months Participants with diagnosis of metabolic syndrome at baseline who no longer meet metabolic syndrome criteria, according to those established by the Joint Interim Statement in 2009 (Harmonizing the metabolic syndrome: a joint interim statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity. Circulation. 2009;120:1640 -1645.)
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Hospital de ClĂnicas "JosĂ© de San MartĂn"
🇦🇷Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina