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Improving Reproductive Fitness Through Pretreatment With Lifestyle Modification in Obese Women With Unexplained Infertility
In Brief
A Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating Caloric Restriction, Orlistat, and 1 other intervention for Infertility, Female. Completed, enrolled 379 participants across 10 sites.
Detailed Summary
A two-arm, multicenter, prospective, randomized clinical trial of a lifestyle modification program with tracked increased physical activity and weight loss (intensive) compared to recommendations to tracking of increased physical activity alone with weight maintenance (standard) in women with obesity and unexplained infertility. This 16 week period of lifestyle modification will be followed by an open label empiric infertility treatment regimen consisting of three cycles of ovarian stimulation with oral medication (clomiphene citrate (CC)), triggering of ovulation with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and intrauterine insemination (IUI).
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Subjects on Active comparator will have Caloric Restriction to a 1200-1500 kcal/day diet through use of Nutrisystem Meal Plan.
Subjects on Active comparator will use an over-the-counter weight loss medication, Orlistat, a gastric lipase inhibitor that limits gut fat absorption.
All subjects in both arms will be encouraged to engage in moderate physical activity with target of 10,000 steps a day.