Victoria University is conducting two clinical trials relating to obesity and weight loss – and researchers need your help.
VU’s Exercise Metabolism unit is recruiting more participants for two clinical trials that are now under way. The first one involves a three-hour health check at VU’s St Albans campus that includes an oral glucose-tolerance test, a body composition assessment and a genetic test that looks at an obesity risk gene known as FTO.
VU is seeking another 75 participants aged between 20 and 50 who are considered to be healthy and not on any medication that influences metabolism.
The other clinical trial is a longer-term weight loss supplement program that runs at the Western Centre of Health Research and Education at Sunshine Hospital over 12 weeks.
In this trial, participants are given either a placebo or an extract of saffron stigma, Satiereal, to measure its effectiveness on food cravings and preferences.
Researchers will also have a look at body composition and appetite regulating hormones.
VU is seeking 30 more women between 20 and 50 who are overweight based on their body mass index.
“Ultimately, both projects will examine means of reducing mortality associated with an overweight and obese population,” third year doctorate student Jessica Danaher said.
For more information, email Jessica.Danaher@vu.edu.au
