Atkins Diet for Difficult-to-Control Headaches in Teenagers
CompletedPhase 1NCT00181064
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This is a 3-month pilot study of 10 adolescents with chronic daily headache. Teens will be placed on a modified Atkins diet and followed with 2 subsequent visits to assess for headache improvement.
Study details
- Official title
- Use of the Atkins Diet for Adolescents With Chronic Daily Headache.
- Conditions
- Chronic Daily Headache
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Modified Atkins diet
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Start date
- 2005-09
- Primary completion
- 2009-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 12 Years to 19 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Ages 12-19 * Minimum 15 headaches/month for at least 3 months * Tried 2 preventative medications previously Exclusion Criteria: * Prior use of the Atkins diet for more than 1 week * Pregnancy * Significant heart or kidney disease * Dangerously underweight * Using acute pain medications more than 11 days in the past month * Medications being changed
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00181064