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NCT04401930

Eating Habits and Lifestyle Profile of an Italian Aging Cohort

Completed Last updated 1 June 2021
What this trial tests

trial in Aging in 600 participants. Completed in 31 March 2021.

Timeline
1 November 2017
Primary endpoint
31 March 2021
31 March 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsorUniversity of Pavia
StatusCompleted
Study typeOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment600
Start date1 November 2017
Primary completion31 March 2021
Estimated completion31 March 2021
Sites1 location across Italy

Conditions studied

Sponsor

University of Pavia

Who can join

65 and older, any sex, with Aging or Healthy Aging. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Aging is characterized by low-grade inflammatory state, supported by impairment oxidative balance and endocrine changes, leading to changes in: body composition, such as decrease in lean body mass and increase in adipose tissue; resting metabolic rate; immune function; cognitive impairment. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics all subjects over the age of 60 should be able to access to adequate nutrition and appropriate nutritional services. In order to ensure healthy aging and to reduce effects of specific diseases, recommendations are needed for illness and disability in this population, as well as adequate physical activity and specific support programs, culturally accepted. The aim of this study is to evaluate eating habits in term of food consumption, health state and lifestyle in a sample of free-living elderly over the age of 65, living in Milan and surroundings. In particular, profiling of the elderly population is performed using a survey in which information are collected on methods, contexts, time and ability to buy, prepare, consume and dispose of and recycle food. Eating habits and knowledge about food are detected through the analysis of food consumption frequencies, and lifestyle by assessing the level of physical activity, quality of sleep, smoking habit. Weight status and health status are evaluated through anthropometric measurements, body composition (bioelectrical impedance) and strength test. Other information relating to social participation and other socio-demographic variables (age, gender, family composition, socio-economic status) are collected to have a completed profiling of target population. Achieved results will help us to identify factors on which acting to ensure healthy aging and counteract inflammaging, the chronic low-grade systemic inflammation characteristic in the aging process. Moreover, the study allows increasing the knowledge related to the needs and requirements of the target population to determine a good food policy and to increase the elderly empowerment.

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