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Ongoing Clinical Trials

The body of research examining therapeutic diets is growing. Many trials are still in progress, including several large multi-center trials (DIETOMICS-CD [CDED] and MELODY [IBD-AID]). The collection of ongoing clinical trials listed below has been cultivated from ClinicalTrials.gov.
Date Title Trial type Completed Diets Sponsor Summary Excerpt Trial
Oct 2020 Modeling Patient Response to a Therapeutic Diet in Crohn's Disease (TDI) Interventional University of Calgary is proposed randomized controlled trial (RCT) explores the efficacy of a Crohn's Disease (CD) Therapeutic Dietary Intervention (TDI) compared to conventional management (CM) to induce steroid-free clinical remission at week 13 in patients with active, mild-to-moderate luminal CD. For asymptomatic patients with active disease, efficacy of the diet will be explored by using fecal calprotectin and sonographic findings.
Jun 2020 Study of Dietary Composition in Crohn's Disease (CD)
 Interventional University of California, Los Angeles A randomized controlled trial of the anti-inflammatory whole food diet versus usual diet for the induction of remission in 104 adults with mild-to-moderate Crohn's Disease (CD). The anti-inflammatory whole food diet will be compared to participants usual diet for understanding its effects on achieving clinical remission, clinical response, reduction in serological and fecal markers of inflammation, and improvement in patient-reported outcomes, such as physical activity, anxiety, depression, fatigue, pain, sleep disturbance, social satisfaction, and quality of life. The study will involve collection of blood and fecal specimens to evaluate the effects of the anti-inflammatory diet on the gut microbiome, bacterial metabolome, innate immune markers, and fecal microRNA profiles. The participants will be placed on anti-inflammatory diet for 8 weeks and assessed every 2 weeks for adherence.
May 2020 SCD vs. Mediterranean Diet Therapy in Ulcerative Colitis
 Interventional SCD, MED Massachusetts General Hospital Although patients and physicians have shown tremendous interest in the effect of diet on ulcerative colitis, there is a lack of significant evidence for providers to make practical recommendations with. In this study, the investigators hope to find out if dietary therapy by either the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) or the Mediterranean diet will help improve ulcerative colitis symptoms for patients with mild to moderately active disease. In addition, the investigators will compare disease activity and changes in the intestinal bacterial composition in the colon that occur with the Mediterranean or the SCD diet in active ulcerative colitis.
Mar 2020 Prospective Dietary Therapy Using Crohn's Disease Exclusion Diet for Ileal Pouch Anal Anastomosis Patients Interventional CDED Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Although, pouchitis patients are former UC patients, the disease occurs in the small intestine, similarly to Crohn's disease (CD). Further, the disease can be clinically similar to CD, involving the proximal gastro-intestinal tract and causing strictures, fistula, or perianal disease. The Crohn's Disease Exclusion Diet (CDED) reduces exposure to all the components identified in rodent models as well as two components that are highly suspect but have not been investigated in models. The diet also provides dietary components that may favor species (especially SCFA producers) which appear to be deficient in CD. The investigator therefore aims to examine the microbial, mucosal and immunological changes of the pouch during one year post IPAA, and examine the impact of the CDED on disease activity and dysbiosis in a cohort of adults suffering from active pouchitis.
Feb 2020 Decoding Personalized Nutritional, Microbiome and Host Patterns Impacting Clinical and Prognostic Features in Crohn's Disease Observational Weizmann Institute of Science The study is 3 arms observational study with no intervention that aims to understand the link between Crohn's disease, microbiome and diet in children. 150 children newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease will participate in the study and their data will be used to create an algorithm about their microbiome, disease, diet, etc. 100 other children newly diagnosed will participate in the study and their data will be use to validate the algorithm. The investigators will be recruiting 50 healthy participants: 20 that are undergoing an endoscopy for abdominal pain and 30 that comes to the physician for different reasons.
Feb 2020 The Impact of Time Restricted Feeding in Crohn's Disease (TRF-CD) Interventional Weill Medical College of Cornell University Collaborator: Time-restricted feeding (TRF) is a dietary regimen involving the consumption of food and liquids within a defined time window with or without additional restriction on dietary composition. TRF has been associated with improvements in inflammation, host metabolism, autophagy, gut microbial composition, and gut permeability. Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of unknown etiology that likely results from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. This proposed study will test the hypothesis that a time-restricted feeding regimen will improve clinical outcomes and favorably influence the gut microbiome in patients with active Crohn's disease. If time-restricted fasting proves beneficial to this patient population then it will pave the way for larger, prospective studies and clinical trials.
Jan 2020 Adjunctive Treatment With Vitamin D3 in Patients With Active IBD (ACTIVATED) Interventional Massachusetts General Hospital Besides its traditional role in bone homeostasis, several studies have recognized the important role Vitamin D plays in modulating the immune response, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Specifically, Vitamin D may mediate immunity by modulating autophagy in leukocytes and regulating the gut microbiome. Thus, Vitamin D may play an important role in IBD. Furthermore, evidence suggests that the effect of vitamin D may be mediated through the TNF-α pathway, suggesting a synergy with anti-TNF therapy. This is a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial to study the effect of Vitamin D3 as an adjunct therapy for patients with active CD, UC, or IBD unspecified who are undergoing anti-TNF induction therapy.
Jan 2020 The Intensive Post Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Study (iPENS) Interventional CD-TREAT NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde The aim of this study is to investigate this phenomenon by exploring if diet and gut bacteria play a role. Furthermore, the investigators aim to test whether a new, ordinary food-based diet, called the Crohn's Disease TReatment with EATing (CD-TREAT) diet can help control gut inflammation during the early food reintroduction phase, after EEN completion, compared to an unrestricted, free diet.
Jan 2020 "Tasty and Healthy" Dietary Approach for Crohn's Disease
 Interventional Shaare Zedek Medical Center The aim of this proposal is to explore the effectiveness of the "Tasty&Healthy" dietary approach based on avoiding "pro-inflammatory" and processed ingredients, for inducing and maintaining remission and MH in children and young adults.
Jan 2020 Low Animal Protein(LAP) modified Specific Carbohydrate Diet in Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Interventional SCD David Suskind, Seattle Children's Hospital For this study, the investigators will examine the effect of low animal protein diet modified SCD in active ulcerative colitis. The investigators are examining how well a LAP SCD is tolerated and whether the LAP SCD appears effective for the treatment of active UC. Patients will be evaluated at 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks with CBC, sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, albumin, and stool for microbiome analysis at each follow up visit.
Dec 2019 Diet Intervention for Crohn's Disease Patient Interventional University of Miami The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a low-fat, high fiber diet (LFD) containing a minimal proportion of fat to improve gastrointestinal symptoms, quality of life and signs of inflammation in blood and stool.
Nov 2019 Effects of an Intermittent Reduced Calorie Diet on Crohn's Disease
 Interventional Stanford University The purpose of this study is to see how an Intermittent Calorie Reduced Diet (IRCD) that mimics fasting effects inflammation in patients with mild to moderate Crohn's disease (CD). The diet may allow users to receive the benefits of fasting while also being able to enjoy food (the ingredients of which are GRAS (generally recognized as safe) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Research on dietary interventions and CD are very limited. Diets that mimick fasting have been studied with support of the National Institute of Health and published in leading journals. This research investigates whether markers of inflammation decrease and/or quality of life increases after five-day periods of the IRCD, and may provide rationale for its use to treat CD.n=75

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