An interventional study of Hydrogen-rich water and placebo in Type 2 Diabetes, sponsored by Qingdao University. Recruiting at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-06-15.
Sponsored by Qingdao University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of hydrogen-rich water in type 2 diabetes patients.
The objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of hydrogen-rich water compared with placebo in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus after 12-week treatment in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design.
10,371 studies on the registry are indexed under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; 1,406 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 96 is above the median of 80 across 8,350 interventional studies indexed under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2.
Browse Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 studies →Qingdao University is the lead sponsor of 22 studies on the registry; 4 are open to participants now.
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Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
BMI (body mass index)
Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HbA1c
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
TIA (transient ischaemic attack)
A “mini-stroke”: temporary stroke-like symptoms caused by reduced blood flow to part of the brain, spinal cord or eye, without signs of a new stroke on a scan.
Stroke symptoms need emergency care at once, even if they go away.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
NYHA class (heart failure)
The New York Heart Association’s four classes of how much heart failure limits physical activity.
Studies set their own limit — many outside heart failure leave out class III–IV, while heart failure studies may ask for a particular class. Check the class this study names.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ECG (electrocardiogram)
A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients receive hydrogen-rich water.
Dietary Supplement: Hydrogen-rich water
Patients receive placebo.
Dietary Supplement: placebo
Patients drink 600mL hydrogen-rich water per day by applying hydrogen-rich water cup (Qingdao Haizhisheng Corp.,LTD, Qingdao, China) for 12 weeks. The dissolved hydrogen concentration is 5 ppm.
Patients drink 600mL tap water per day by applying analogue cup for 12 weeks. This cup has the same appearance as the hydrogen-rich water cup, and the hydrogen-rich water and placebo water were indistinguishable. The dissolved hydrogen concentration is 0 ppm in placebo water.
Change in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c)
The change in HbA1c from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in fasting plasma glucose (FPG)
The change in FPG from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in 2h-postprandial plasma glucose (2h-PPG)
The change in 2h-PPG from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Patients with HbA1c <7.0%
Percentage of patients reaching HbA1c \<7% at Week 12
Time frame: At Week 12
Patients with HbA1c <6.5%
Percentage of patients reaching HbA1c \<6.5% at Week 12
Time frame: At Week 12
Change in fasting plasma insulin
The change in fasting plasma insulin from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in insulin sensitivity and beta cell function assessed by the homeostatic model assessment (HOMA)
The change in HOMA-IR and HOMA-β from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in serum lipid profile
The change in total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein, triglycerides from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in waist circumference
The change in waist circumference from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in body weight
The change in body weight from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in body mass index (BMI)
The change in BMI from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in blood pressure
The change in blood pressure from baseline to Week 12 in hydrogen-rich water group compared to Placebo.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Change in oxidative stress index and inflammatory index
Serum MDA and SOD, TNF-α, IL-6 quantifications were conducted using commercial kits from baseline to Week 12.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Number of participants with adverse events as a measure of safety and tolerability
Number of participants with adverse events from baseline to Week 12.
Time frame: Baseline to Week 12
Plan to share: No
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Started Mar 2023 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Aug 2023, 5 months after the start.
Of 2,066 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, half reached primary completion within 21 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 40. This study's planned 5 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 2,243 studies reached it within 21 months; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 39.
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