Specific Carbohydrate Diet as Maintenance Therapy in Crohn's Disease
Completed
Conditions studied: Crohn's Disease
In brief
This study investigates whether the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) can maintain clinical remission in pediatric and adult patients with Crohn's disease.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01749813
- Run by
- Stanford University
- People needed
- 8
- Starts
- 2012-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-02-08
Who can join
Age: any, up to 30. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult or pediatric patients presenting with a new diagnosis or flare of existing Crohn's disease based on standard diagnostic criteria including: clinical symptoms, laboratory parameters, disease activity indices (Pediatric Crohn's Disease Activity Index (PCDAI) for patients <19years and Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) for patients >19years), pathology from upper endoscopy/colonoscopy and imaging studies.
- Exclusion Criteria:)
- Pregnancy
- Other autoimmune conditions including celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis
- Otherwise immunosuppressed patients including HIV and prior organ transplant
- Patients diagnosed with ulcerative colitis or indeterminate colitis
- Active tuberculosis
Where it is running
- Stanford University Medical Center — Palo Alto, California, United States
- Stanford — Palo Alto, California, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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