Low Starch Dietary Education Program vs. Traditional Treatment for PCOS

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-09-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Compare weight loss and metabolic parameters in patients using a low starch dietary education program vs. traditional treatment (i.e., prescribing metformin, low calorie diet and exercise) for health improvement in women with PCOS.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
• Treatments: Metformin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Women ages 18-45

• BMI of >25 but < 45

• PCOS

• Access to a computer/phone/electronic device with internet connection.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Abnormal thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)

• Hyperprolactinemia

• adrenal hyperplasia

• Cushing's disease Ovarian and adrenal tumors. Previous diagnosis of diabetes. History of eating disorder History of surgical weight loss procedure Persons with an inability to give informed consent Persons unable/unwilling to exercise or to prepare their own food