Can short bursts of exercise or eating windows cut diabetes risk in teens?
NCT ID NCT07215533
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether 4 weeks of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) or time-restricted eating (TRE) can improve health markers linked to type 2 diabetes in adolescents and young adults with overweight or obesity. Forty participants will be randomly assigned to one of the two interventions. Researchers will measure changes in weight, blood sugar, insulin, and other metabolic indicators.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and time-restricted eating (TRE)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward simple lifestyle strategies to lower type 2 diabetes risk in young people with overweight or obesity.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 40 participants over 4 weeks. Results may not apply to everyone, and long-term effects are unknown.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2024
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2025
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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14 to 30 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adolescents (age 14-17 years old with sex- and race-specific BMI percentile ≥85th) and young adults with overweight and obesity (age 18 to 30 years old with BMI ≥25 kg/m2) Exclusion Criteria: * Chronic medical conditions: heart disease, arrhythmias, diabetes, thyroid disease, bleeding disorder, history of pulmonary disease, hypertension, hepatorenal disease, musculoskeletal disorder, neuromuscular/neurological disease, autoimmune disease, cancer, peptic ulcers, anemia, or chronic infection (HIV). * Have taken any heart, pulmonary, thyroid, anti-hyperlipidemic, hypoglycemic, anti- hypertensive, endocrinologic (e.g., thyroid, insulin, etc.), emotional/psychotropic (e.g., Prednisone, Ritalin, Adderall), neuromuscular/neurological, or androgenic medications (anabolic steroids). * Have a pacemaker.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Syracuse University
RECRUITINGSyracuse, New York, 13244, United States
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