Status:
COMPLETED
Efficacy of Modified Atkins Ketogenic Diet in Chronic Cluster Headache: a Prospective Case Series
Lead Sponsor:
University of Roma La Sapienza
Conditions:
Chronic Cluster Headache
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Atkins diet is a nutritional regimen characterized by ad libitum protein and fat intake, but carbohydrate restriction. It is followed by millions of people around the word as a life-style, but in the ...
Detailed Description
The Atkins diet is a ketogenic high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet for long adopted as lifestyle by people that dislike have an high carbohydrate intake. This nutritional life style seems to account for m...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Diagnosis of CCH (less than 30 consecutive days of attacks remission in the last year)
- kept a headache diary for at least 1 month
- CH onset before the age of 50
Exclusion
- over consumption of acute pain-killers (triptan, analgesic, or ergotamine)
- pregnancy or lactation
- type I diabetes
- serious organic or psychiatric disorders that the investigators judged as having the potential to influence the trial evaluation.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2017
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
18 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03244735
Start Date
January 1 2017
End Date
August 1 2017
Last Update
August 14 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Policlinico Umberto I
Rome, Italy, 00161