Conditions: Diabetes Metabolic Syndrome x
Keywords: diabetes metabolic syndrome inflammation botanical oils
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 80
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study will compare how well a combination of borage and echium oils will reduce inflammation compared to fish oils and placebo oil in subjects that are diabetic or have metabolic syndrome.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: borage/echium oil combination containing 0.85g/day SDA and 1.7 g/day GLA arm 2: Croda 18:12 fish oil arm 3: None

Interventions: intervention 1: borage/echium oil combination intervention 2: fish oil intervention 3: corn oil
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: borage/echium oil combination containing 0.85g/day SDA and 1.7g/day GLA intervention 2: 1.6g/day EPA and 1.08g/day DHA intervention 3: contains 4.5 g/day linoleic acid

Protocol document: