Coffee Bioequivalence Trial

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

16 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-01-31

Study Completion Date

2025-12-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to test if coffee consumed as a tablet is biologically equivalent to that consumed traditionally as a drink. It will also learn about the impact of the short-term intake of coffee on markers of cardiovascular and liver health. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Do coffee bioactive compounds produce the same levels in blood and urine regardless of how the coffee is consumed (tablet or drink)?
* How does coffee as a tablet or drink impact cardiovascular risk and liver health versus a non-coffee control?

Participants will:

* Visit the clinical unit for three phases; each phase is 1x 480 minute (eight hour) acute postprandial visit and 1 x one hour visit the following day. During each phase they will be randomly assigned to take a different intervention (coffee drink, coffee tablet, coffee-free control)
* Be cannulated during the 480 minute (8 hour) acute visits and have regular blood draws as well as basic clinical assessments
* Return on day two for a fasting blood sample and basic clinical assessment
* Collect their urine for 24 h
* Be asked to record their intake of foods and drinks for 3 days to assess their usual diet (dietary assessment).

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Detailed Description

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Coffee has gained interest for its role in the prevention of non-communicable diseases such as heart and liver diseases. Population-based studies have reported that consuming 2-4 cups of coffee per day is associated with lower death rates and, notably reductions in the incidence of heart disease. However, these observational trials do not directly prove causality and carefully designed randomised controlled trials are needed.

This current trial will provide vital information to inform a large-scale randomised controlled trial assessing the effects of coffee consumption on risk markers for developing cardiometabolic disease (such as type 2 diabetes, heart and liver diseases) to test causality. In this follow-up trial to be conducted in 2025, non-coffee consumers will be recruited. To maximise recruitment, retention and adherence in the trial, we are considering providing instant coffee as tablets rather than as a drink. Hence, the current study will help to understand if coffee delivered in a tablet is biologically equivalent to consuming coffee as a drink.

A 3 armed, randomised, controlled crossover trial in healthy participants wil be performed. The primary outcome is the pharmacokinetic profile of coffee bioactives in coffee drink versus the coffee tablet. Secondary outcomes will be assessing the impact of the coffee both as a drink and tablet on cardiovascular and liver health markers (versus a coffee-free control).

Briefly, participants will attend three study phases. Each study phase includes a 480 minute (8-hour) acute postprandial visit and a shorter visit (\~one hour) the following morning. On the first day participants will arrive having fasted overnight and having followed dietary and lifestyle restrictions in the preceding days. They will have baseline anthropometric measures performed and a cannula will be inserted; two baseline blood samples will be collected (14 mL in total). Blood samples will be collected regularly from the cannula, and a clinic blood pressure measurement will be performed at regular intervals following the intervention (a different intervention will be given in a random order at each of the three phases). A breakfast meal and lunch will be provided to the participants during the visit and participants will leave with a standardised meal and snack to consume in the evening. They will return, fasted the following morning to provide a blood samples and have their blood pressure measured. Participants will be asked to collect their urine for 24h following the intervention; this will be returned that morning. There will be a 4-week period between each study phase.

Conditions

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Liver Functions Bioequivalence Cardiovascular Risk Cardiometabolic Risk Markers

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Single

Study Groups

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Coffee given as a drink

This group will consume 3.6 g of commercially available instant coffee given as a drink prepared with 400 ml of water.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR