Dietary Interventions for Muscle Mass

Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging

Treatments: Other: Intact or minced beef meat

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01145131

MEC 10-3-065

Details and patient eligibility

About

Dietary intervention to prevent sarcopenia in elderly people. The objective of this study is to test whether meat structure plays an important role in protein digestion, to maximise the amino acid availability and to stimulate the muscle protein growth in elderly people.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 65 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non-obese male subjects (BMI<30) between the age of 65-85 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Type II diabetes or other known diseases, use of medication, female, other ages or BMI than indicated above, participation in any regular exercise program.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

Beef steak

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Intact or minced beef meat

Minced beef

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Intact or minced beef meat