Effect of a Chicken-Based Diet on Renal Function and Lipid Profile in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Effect of a Chicken-Based Diet on Renal Function and Lipid Profile in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes A randomized crossover trial Jorge L. Gross , MD 1 , Themis Zelmanovitz , MD 1 , Cileide C. Moulin , RD 2 , Vanessa De Mello , RD 1 , Magda Perassolo , BC 1 , Cristiane Leitão , MD 1 , Alice Hoefel , MD 1 , Alexandre Paggi , MD 1 and Mirela J. Azevedo , MD 1 1 Endocrine Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2 Department of Nutrition, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil Abstract OBJECTIVE —To assess the effect of replacing red meat with chicken in the usual diet and the effect of a low-protein diet on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER), and lipid levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS —A randomized, crossover, controlled trial was conducted with 28 patients with type 2 diabetes (seven women; mean age 58.1 years): 15 patients were normoalbuminuric (UAER