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Cocoa Intake for Health Promotion in Athletes

NCT03897114 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2021-04-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Athletes consume an extra of nutritional supplements every day with the purpose of improving their athletic performance, sometimes without being aware of their health. Cocoa could be a good nutritional supplement for athletes without causing them adverse effects. One of the most common health concerns in athletes are gastrointestinal problems. The cause of these problems seem to be a compendium of physiological and mechanical causes that are altered due to nutritional factors. Currently, there is no assay in which a nutritional intervention study has been proposed over time of training, in order to improve the gastrointestinal problems associated with the performance of physical exercise.

Conditions

  • Healthy Subjects

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Cocoa group

Athletes perform the same training program and they take 5 g of cocoa (83 mg of flavonoids per gram of cocoa) mixed with low-fat milk for 10 weeks.

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Placebo group

The athletes perform the same training program and they take for 10 weeks 5 g maltodextrin mixed with low-fat milk for 10 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Universidad Europea de Madrid

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • María del Mar Larrosa Pérez, PhD · Universidad Europea de Madrid

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-01
Primary Completion
2019-02-20
Completion
2020-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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