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Pilchardus Study
PROJECT CIBERDEM
Status: Development
PILCHARDUS is a clinical research project that aims to test the hypothesis that a sardine-rich diet can improve metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus .
CIBERDEM is the driving force behind this multicenter study with the participation of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona as the coordinator and Hospital de la Vall d’Hebrón de Barcelona and Hospital Carlos Haya de Málaga as associated centres .
GROUPS INVOLVED: R . Gomis (coordinator), R . Simó, F . Soriguer, A . Novials and X . Correig (Metabolomics Platform) .
The objectives of the study are to evaluate the effects of a sardine-rich diet on blood glucose control, inflammation markers, blood pressure, lipid metabolism and intestinal microbiota in patients with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes or patients not undergoing pharmacological treatment .
Sixty-two patients will be included in the study . They will be randomly divided into two groups: the intervention group (sardine diet) and the control group (normal diet) . The diet consists of replacing part of the daily protein intake with 100 g of sardines, 5 times a week for 6 months . Canned sardines or sardines processed in other ways are supplied . The Galician fish-canning company, Cerqueira, collaborated by providing all the canned sardines required for the study free of charge, and the food research centre, Fundación Alícia, led by Chef Ferran Adrià, designed sardine-based products to provide patients with a wide gastronomic variety of sardine-based meals and to prevent monotonous diets .
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