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Setting. Outpatient fertility clinic.

Aim. Investigate if a modification in nutritional habits may improve in the short term the qualities of human sperm, testing two hypothesis:

i) that adding to the diet a natural whole food rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)

OR

ii) that reducing the intake of saturated fatty acids and increasing the consumption of PUFA may affect beneficially sperm parameters.

Population. N. 100 hypofertile male subjects attending a fertility clinic.

Type of study. Interventional study. No drugs or pharmacologic supplementation will be required nor allowed.

Two different type of intervention are scheduled:

- Supplementation to western style diet with nuts, naturally rich in PUFA

- Diet modification increasing intake of PUFA-rich foods and cutting the consumption of food rich in saturated fats.

Protocol

- Baseline visit and recruiting.

- Informed consent

- Randomized allocation to treatment group in a 1: 1 manner

Blinding. Investigators deputed to sperm analysis and statistician are blinded as to type of intervention.

Phases:

- i) basal

- ii) after 15 weeks That interval is chosen because encompasses an entire spermatogenesis cycle.

Outcomes. Primary

- sperm count, concentration,morphology and mobility.

Secondary:

- serum folate assay,

- plasma PUFA (ALA, EPA, DHA) assay,

- body weight and BMI variation

Statistics. A comparison for all sperm parameters (count,concentration,morphologic abnormalities, mobility) will be carried out by an analysis within groups and within patient.


Clinical Trial Description

The planned trial is nutritional based only, with a modification of diet in order to obtain an increase of PUFA intake with/without a reduction of saturated fatty acid intake.

Two different types of intervention are scheduled:

- Supplementation to western style diet with food naturally rich in PUFA

- Diet modification, increasing intake of PUFA naturally rich foods and cutting the consumption of saturated fats.

The supplementation is obtained adding 7 nuts a day to regular diet. The diet modification is obtained by increasing intake of nuts and seeds (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts, sesame, sunflower, flaxseed) and derived oils, fish and vegetables; cutting the consumption of processed meat and dairy products is required as well.

The type of diet or supplementation is supported by oral and written information. The compliance to diet will be followed by administration of validated questionnaires.

The effect of the diet modifications will be followed by a number of plasma biomarkers we plan to compare at baseline and post intervention. The body weight and BMI will be checked, as both types of intervention are intended to not affect significantly mean body weight. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT02063256
Study type Interventional
Source Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino
Contact Aldo Maina, MD
Phone 0039011313
Email amaina@citttadellasalute.to.it
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2/Phase 3
Start date May 2014
Completion date December 2016

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