Enhancing Muscle Health and Metabolism in Pre-frail Middle-aged and Older Adults

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Weakness; Muscle Loss

Treatments: Other: protein-enriched soup

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05828134

YM109172F

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effects of protein-enriched soup plus exercise on muscle mass and muscle strength.

Besides, the investigators use the valued-based healthcare standard set as well as the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression, Charlson's comorbidity index Montreal Cognitive Assessment , and Mini Nutritional Assessment as outcome measures and to use the trial in validate additional supplement protein-enriched soup plus exercise could improve the vitality and health of mid-aged and old adults.

Full description

With aging, functions of every organs become to decline. Muscle mass, is one of the decline. According to previous research, adults would lose 40% among from aged 20 to 70. If muscle mass decline combining with the decline of muscle strength is so called Sarcopenia.When muscle mass decline, infectious risk gets higher, and resilience after illness gets lower. In addition, activity and life quality are also responsible for falling, cognitive difficulty, disability and mortality among seniors. We hope to find out the etiologies of Sarcopenia through this program and develop prevention strategy and model to mollify the the negative effect of rapid aging society.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. People who aged 50-75 years
2. Patients with following characteristics:
3. feeling loss in activity
4. detecting decline in self's walking speed.
5. feeling tired of doing everything.
6. having fell in last year.
7. People willing to follow the program and cooperate with us for following tracking.
8. People who are neither vegan nor vegetarian
9. People agree and be able to sign the informed consent.
10. the protein of the daily meal are less than 1.0g/kg

Exclusion criteria

1. People cannot intake provided meals (e.g.: vegans or vegetarians) or any other who is allergic to our diets.
2. People with any disease affecting their limbs, including:
3. having fracture on limbs in the past 6 months
4. having severe arthritis in the past 6 months
5. any other whom PI recognized as weak control of their nervous system( e.g.: Parkinson's disease and stroke).
6. People with intermittent limp caused by peripheral artery diseases
7. People with weak control of mental disorder
8. People with weak control of Cardiopulmonary disease
9. People with weak control of Malignant tumor
10. People with weak control of kidney diseases (eGFR <60ml/min/1.73)
11. People with Visual impairment and Hearing disorder which cannot help to complete the program.
12. People who have underwent hormone treatment and planned to undergo hormone treatment during program session.
13. Any other condition that PI recognized as not suitable

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual care group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group only performed routine data collection and gave them dietary suggestion.

Protein-enriched soup group

Experimental group

Description:

Protein-enriched soup /day for use as a supplement with meals and strength training /week

Treatment:

Other: protein-enriched soup