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Trial reportJournal of the American Heart Association2026

Serum Metabolite Profiles in Adults With Abdominal Obesity in Response to Consuming 1 Avocado Daily for 6 Months: An Exploratory Analysis.

Nirupa R Matthan, Ecaterina Duscova, Gregory Matuszek, Wen Zhang, Penny M Kris-Etherton, Kristina S Petersen, Sujatha Rajaram, Zhaoping Li, David M Reboussin, Joan Sabate and 1 more

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Trial report in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03528031 (Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT03528031 nacompletednot on this map

Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorWake Forest University Health SciencesRan2018 to 2020Enrolled1,008ConditionsIntra-abdominal Fat, Metabolic Syndrome, High Cholesterol, Triglycerides HighArmsIntervention Daily Avocado
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Nirupa R MatthanJean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7037-9779
Ecaterina DuscovaJean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2875-638X
Gregory MatuszekJean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5367-5867
Wen ZhangJean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA.
Penny M Kris-EthertonDepartment of Nutritional Sciences The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6012-4900
Kristina S PetersenDepartment of Nutritional Sciences The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3914-0353
Sujatha RajaramCenter for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention Loma Linda University School of Public Health Loma Linda CA USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6367-4406
Zhaoping LiCenter for Human Nutrition David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles CA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8662-4310
David M ReboussinDepartment of Biostatistics and Data Science Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem NC USA.
Joan Sabate *Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention Loma Linda University School of Public Health Loma Linda CA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9063-9785
Alice H Lichtenstein *Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Boston MA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1053-9478

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAvocado consumption has been associated with improvements in diet quality and cardiometabolic risk factors, but effects on serum metabolite profiles remain underexplored.

methodsSecondary analysis was conducted using untargeted metabolomics to assess fasting serum metabolite profiles at baseline (preintervention) and 6 months (postintervention) in a subset of participants with abdominal obesity from the HAT (Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial), who were randomized to the avocado group (n = 120; 70% women; 49 ± 13 years of age; body mass index 33.1 ± 5.7 kg/m

resultsPlasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (-6%), systolic (-3%), and diastolic (-2%) blood pressure decreased, whereas visceral adipose tissue volume increased (3%) postintervention (all

conclusionsAvocado intake was associated with subtle shifts in serum metabolites related to lipid, carbohydrate, and amino acid metabolism, with weak effects on visceral adipose tissue volume, plasma triglycerides, and total cholesterol concentrations. REGISTRATION: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov; Unique identifier: NCT03528031.

Indexed as

Obesity, AbdominalPerseaAdultBiomarkersCardiometabolic Risk FactorsFemaleHumansLipidsMaleMetabolomicsMiddle AgedTime FactorsBiomarkersLipidsavocadocardiometabolic risk factorscomplex lipidsdietary interventiongut‐derived metabolitesmetabolomicsvisceral adiposity

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PMID41823253
PMCPMC13055822

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