Parboiled rice improves glycemic response

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• Last refreshed on: 29 April 2024
• Main ID: TCTR20170709002
• Date of registration: 09/07/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Graduate School of Kuwait University
• Public title: Parboiled rice improves glycemic response
• Scientific title: Parboiled Rice Metabolism Differs in Healthy and Diabetic Individuals with Similar Improvement in Glycemic Response
• Date of first enrolment: 06/10/2014
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://www.thaiclinicaltrials.org/show/TCTR20170709002
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Randomized
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Kuwait

Contacts

• Name: Tasleem A. Zafar
• Affiliation: Kuwait University

• Name: Tasleem A. Zafar
• Affiliation: Kuwait University

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Healthy subjects with normal BMI, non-smokers, who were not on dieting or were breakfast skipper, neither on any medication.

Diabetic subjects who are otherwise healthy only on oral hypoglycemic meds, not on insulin or on medication for other complication/s.
Exclusion criteria: Healthy subjects: below or above the healthy BMI, out of the age range or those could not fit in the inclusion criteria
Diabetic subject: those who could not fit in the inclusion criteria

Age minimum: 21 Years
Age maximum: 35 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Postprandial hyperglycemia Obesity
Diabetes
Hunger

Diabetes
Hunger

Intervention(s)

Healthy subjects,Type-2 diabetics

This study tested in healthy individuals three types of rice, which is "Food" and NOT dietary supplement, in a specific amount (50g Available carbohydrates) on the availability of glucose absorbed into blood over a time of 120 minutes.,This study tested in Type-2 diabetic individuals three types of rice, which is "Food" and NOT dietary supplement, in a specific amount (50g Available carbohydrates) on the availability of glucose absorbed into blood over a time of 120 minutes.

Experimental Other,Experimental Other

Primary Outcome(s)

Blood glucose response Baseline (time 0) and then 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 min after consuming the rice preparations Finger prick blood glucose by portable glucometer

Secondary Outcome(s)

Subjective appetite response Baseline (time 0) and then 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120 min after consuming the rice preparations Visual Analoque Satiety Questionnaires (VAS)

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Kuwait University

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Kuwait University

Results

• Date Completed: 02/12/2014