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CTRI/2017/04/008384.

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Methods Type of trial: efficacy trial
Allocation: randomised
Intervention model: parallel
Masking: open label
Primary purpose: treatment
Participants Condition: type 2 diabetes mellitus
Enrolment: estimated 180
Inclusion criteria
  • Patients of either gender with known T2DM

  • Between 20 and 65 years of age

  • Patients with borderline blood lipid abnormality and not taking any hypolipidaemic agents

  • Patients on stable monotherapy of glimepiride 2 mg

  • Patients willing to use plant‐based therapy (resveratrol) with gold standard therapy in management of T2DM


Exclusion criteria
  • Patients willing to use other anti‐oxidant supplementation rather than resveratrol

  • Patients with type 1 diabetes

  • Pregnant and lactating mothers

  • Patients with dyslipidaemia and taking lipid‐lowering therapy including statin

  • Patients with history of severe heart disease

  • Patients with hepatic and renal dysfunction

  • Patients taking/requiring beta‐blocker and any drug that produces hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia

  • Patients with history of allergy to grapes and consuming alcohol daily

Interventions Intervention(s): resveratrol supplement (1 g once daily for 12 months)
Comparator(s): placebo
Outcomes Primary outcome(s): change in blood sugar level (fasting and fed), lipid profile, and systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure from baseline to end of study visit (12 months)
Secondary outcome(s): change in blood sugar level (fasting and fed), lipid profile, haemoglobin A1c, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure
Starting date Trial start date: September 2014
Trial completion date: not reported
Contact information Responsible party/principal investigator: Hemant Mishra, Department of Medicine, Vikas Hospital, Kalyan West, Thane, Maharashtra, India
Study identifier Trial identifier:CTRI/2017/04/008384
Trial registered retrospectively (registered on 20/04/2017)
Official title A randomized, open‐label, active‐control, phase IV clinical study evaluating efficacy and safety of resveratrol as an adjuvant therapy in patients with diabetes, dyslipidemia and hypertension
Stated purpose of study Quote: "a study to check whether addition of resveratrol is beneficial and safe in patients with diabetes, dyslipidemia and hypertension (who are already on standard therapy)"
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