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Supplementation With Nutrients Modulating IGF-1 and Cytokines in Elderly People at Risk of Undernutrition

NCT02656186 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2016-01-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study was to determine the improvement in nutritional status, especially in the level of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and its relationship with changes in the circulating cytokine levels, after providing extra protein and energy contents to community-dwelling older adults at risk of undernutrition.

Conditions

  • Undernutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Pre-intervention

First 2-weeks : keeping routine dietary habit

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Liquid nutritional supplement

Pre-intervention period was followed by an intervention period, during which consumed twice-daily 200 mL cartons of oral liquid nutritional supplementation (total 400 mL daily, containing 16 g protein, 12 g fat and 60 g carbohydrate and providing 400 kcal)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yonsei University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jong Ho Lee, Ph.D. · Department of Food & Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
86 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

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