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NCT Number: NCT05504850

Multicultural Healthy Diet in Chronic Kidney Disease

This is a pilot intervention study to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored anti-inflammatory diet intervention in participants with chronic kidney disease.

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Conditions

Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic Disease Disease Attributes Female Urogenital Diseases Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications Kidney Diseases Male Urogenital Diseases Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Renal Insufficiency Renal Insufficiency, Chronic Urogenital Diseases Urologic Diseases

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Montefiore Medical Center

The Bronx, New York, 10461, United States

About this study

This is a pilot pre-post comparison intervention study to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored anti-inflammatory diet intervention. The study will recruit approximately 20 adult participants with chronic kidney disease (CKD) from nephrology clinics in the Bronx. The diet emphasizes limiting animal and high saturated fat foods with focus on anti-inflammatory foods/food components specific to the cultural context of the participant. The diet will also be tailored to needs of the CKD population including a focus on lowering sodium intake. The intervention will be delivered by an experienced nutritionist with expertise providing dietary counseling to patients with CKD. The investigative team will assess whether the diet is feasible, acceptable, and safe in patients with CKD through dietary intake assessments, questionnaires and serum biomarkers. Information from study will help inform the study design and intervention of a future large-scale, study aimed at improving CKD outcomes. The clinical site for the proposed study is at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥18 years
  • CKD stage 3 (estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) ≥ 30 ml/min/1.73m^2 to < 60 ml/min/1.73m^2)
  • Residency in the Bronx
  • Sufficient hearing, vision, and proficiency in English or Spanish to comprehend dietary counseling and low-level printed educational materials
  • Provide written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • History of hyperkalemia, or baseline serum potassium (K) > 4.8
  • CKD stage 4 or higher estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) <30 ml/min/1.73 m^2
  • Unwillingness/inability to make dietary changes or if primarily interested in weight loss as judged by discussion with the participant
  • History of kidney transplant
  • Poorly controlled diabetes (HbA1c >9%) or insulin use
  • Any severe chronic illness, low literacy, or other serious condition that precludes making dietary changes and requires strict dietary restrictions or completion of study activities
  • Plans to relocate out of New York City in the next 2 months
  • Visual, auditory, or motor impairment that precludes completion of the assessments

Treatment and study plan

Multicultural Health Diet

Other

The food-based components will be similar to the anti-inflammatory diet of the ongoing MHD study (NCT03240406), which emphasizes limiting animal and high saturated fat foods with focus on anti-inflammatory foods/food components specific to the cultural context of the participant. The diet will also be tailored to needs of the CKD population including a focus on lowering sodium intake. The intervention (dietary counseling) will be delivered by experienced kidney disease nutritionist.

Primary outcomes

  1. Feasibility of dietary intervention

    Time frame: From baseline to 2 months post baseline

    Feasibility of the dietary intervention will be assessed using the Automated Self-Administered 24-hour (ASA24®) Dietary Assessment Tool and the Energy-Adjusted Dietary Inflammatory Index Diet (E-DII®) platform. The ASA24® is a web-based tool that enables multiple, automatically coded, self-administered 24-hour diet recalls and/or single or multi-day food records, also known as food diaries. The EE-DII® is a scientific tool that quantifies the potential of a person's diet to cause inflammation, adjusting for total calorie intake for better accuracy. It assigns higher (positive) scores to pro-inflammatory diets (processed meats, sugary drinks) and lower (negative) scores to anti-inflammatory diets (leafy greens, fruits, fish). For this study scores at baseline (pre-intervention) will be compared to scores at 2 months using the E-DII®. The intervention will be considered feasible if ≥ 65% participants have a 2-point or more reduction from their baseline dietary inflammation score.

  2. Acceptability of dietary intervention

    Time frame: 2 months post baseline

    Acceptability of the dietary intervention will be assessed using the Acceptability of the Multicultural Healthy Diet (MHD) in CKD questionnaire. Participants will be asked to rate acceptability based on five items regarding whether the dietary intervention met their approval; was appealing, whether they liked the diet, in general, and liked using herbs/spices that they had not used before; and would recommend the diet to family/friends. Responses to each item are rated on a 5-point ordinal scale: (Completely disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree, Agree or Completely agree). The number/percentage of participants selecting each category will be tabulated.

Other outcomes

  1. Potassium level

    Time frame: 2 weeks after first session with nutritionist

    A serum potassium will be assessed 2 weeks after starting the diet as an added safety measure.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Montefiore Medical Center

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Registry information

Official study title

The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Multicultural Healthy Diet (Anti-inflammatory Dietary Pattern) in Racial/Ethnic Minorities With Chronic Kidney Disease

Important dates

Study start
2022
Primary completion
2024
Study completion
2024
First posted
Aug 17, 2022
Registry last updated
Jan 12, 2026

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