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Women's Health Trial: Feasibility Study in Minority Populations

Launched by NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (NCI) · Oct 27, 1999

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Current as of September 08, 2024

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Description

BACKGROUND: The Request for Proposal for the Women's Health Trial: Feasibility Study in Minority Populations was developed and released by the National Cancer Institute with assistance from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. DESIGN NARRATIVE: Randomized. Recruitment began in August 1992 and ended in February 1994. Forty percent of the subjects were randomized to a control group and 60 percent to the dietary intervention group. Dietary counseling aimed to reduce total fat to 20 percent of calories, reduce saturated fat and dietary cholesterol intakes, and to increase the intak...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

  • Postmenopausal women, aged 50 to 69 years, who consumed 38 percent or more of total calories as fat at baseline.

About Sponsor

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID, /ˈnaɪ.æd/) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). NIAID's mission is to conduct basic and applied research to better understand, treat, and prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.

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Jennifer Cobb

Immunology at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

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