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Vitamin D Fortified Cheese and Well-being in the Institutionalized Elderly

NCT01555424 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 28

Last updated 2012-03-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators hypotheses is that the consumption of the investigators vitamin D fortified cheese will result in an increase in serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels in older institutionalized adults. Also, the consumption of the cheese with the higher amount of vitamin D will result in an improvement in wellbeing scores.

Conditions

  • The Focus is to Assess 25-hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Well-being

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

High dose

This arm of the study receives a higher dose of the vitamin D fortified cheese (28,000IU/ 50g of cheddar cheese eaten once a week).

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Reference dose

This arm of the study receives a lower dose of the vitamin D fortified cheese (200IU/ 50g of cheddar cheese eaten once a week).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Reinhold Vieth, PhD,FCACB · U of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital

  • Pierre Geoffroy, MD · Aurora Retirement Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-29
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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