Impact of Diet and/or Exercise-induced Weight Loss on Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cardiovascular Diseases

In brief

The purpose of this pilot study is to examine the effect of diet and/or exercise-induced weight loss on nontraditional cardiovascular risk factors such as c-reactive protein, insulin levels and sex steroids in obese postmenopausal women.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00588978

Run by

Yale University

People needed

30

Starts

2003-08-01

Expected to finish

2008-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-17

Who can join

Age: 40 and older, up to 65. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• obese postmenopausal women
• able to exercise
• non-smokers

You may not qualify if…

• cardiovascular disease
• medications that would interfere with outcome measures (e.g., including ACE inhibitors, lipid lowering medications, beta-blockers, etc)
• known diabetes

Where it is running

• Yale Center for Clinical Investigation — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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