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Impaired Regulation of Energy Balance in Elderly People (Balance Study)

NCT00561145 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2016-03-11

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Summary

Over the past century life expectancy has risen rapidly. As a result, the proportion of elderly people continues to grow. Elderly people probably have an impaired regulation of energy balance (energy intake versus energy expenditure) whereby the underlying physiological mechanisms are not fully understood.

The first objective of this study is to provide further evidence for an age-related failure to regulate energy balance in elderly. If the hypothesis of impaired regulation of energy balance in elderly is confirmed then the second objective becomes to elucidate the underlying physiological mechanisms of the age-related failure to regulate energy intake in elderly.

Conditions

  • Anorexia of Ageing

Interventions

OTHER

Energy restriction period

The experiment can be divided in 3 phases, namely (1) run-in phase, (2) energy restriction phase and (3) ad libitum food intake phase. Thus, for all participants the experiment consists of three subsequent phases.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Dutch Dairy Organization (NZO)

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wageningen University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Lisette de Groot, Prof, PhD · Wageningen University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-03-31
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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