Overview

Nutrition and Exercise for Sarcopenia

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2016-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The investigators' general hypothesis is that nutritional factors, including protein/energy malnutrition and/or an impaired response of muscle to nutrition, and inactivity play significant roles in developing sarcopenia, the involuntary loss of muscle mass and function with age. Therefore, age-specific prolonged interventions including nutritional manipulations and/or exercise may help to reduce, stabilize, or even reverse sarcopenia.
Phase:
Phase 1
Details
Lead Sponsor:
The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Collaborator:
National Institute on Aging (NIA)