Food Typologies and Multidimensional Phenotyping of Elderly in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Part'AGE)

Launched by INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT · Nov 18, 2024

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ClinConnect Summary

The Part'AGE trial is a research project aimed at understanding how diet affects health as we age. Conducted by the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) in collaboration with the Gérontopôle Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the study is looking for 1,000 participants aged 55 to 75 years from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Researchers want to learn about participants’ eating habits, physical activity, and overall health to group them based on their dietary patterns. The ultimate goal is to provide personalized nutritional advice to help older adults maintain better health.

To participate, individuals need to be generally healthy and able to live independently. Participants will provide some blood and urine samples, complete tests related to mobility and oral health, and fill out questionnaires about their diet and activity levels. Overall, joining this study not only contributes to important nutrition research but also allows participants to receive tailored feedback about their eating habits. If you're interested in being part of this study, you'll need access to the internet and a device with a camera, and you'll also need to be willing to stop taking certain dietary supplements during the study.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Male or female (balanced sex ratio or at least 40% male to 60% female) in complete autonomy at home.
• • 55 to 75 years old, including the limits
• • 20 ≤ BMI ≤35 kg/m2
• • Available to carry out the entire protocol, including self-sampling (not sensitive to the sight of one's own blood for example) and agreeing to stop taking food supplements during the study.
• • Having a scale available: at home, pharmacy, family, etc.
• • Having internet access and a device with a screen and camera (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) at home or able to go to a project partner (CCAS, Point France Service, Community, Association, etc.) that can provide this access
• • Subject agreeing to give written consent (by phone or videoconferencing), and registration in the national file of volunteers who participate in research
• • Person declaring to be subject to a social security scheme.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Weight loss ≥ 5% in 1 month or ≥ 10% in 6 months or ≥ 10% compared to usual weight
• • Treated diabetes
• • Sub-acute pathology (flu, gastroenteritis, bacterial infection, etc.) or trauma (fracture, surgical intervention, etc.) in the 30 days prior to inclusion.
• • Hepatocellular insufficiency,
• • Heart failure with decompensation,
• • Renal insufficiency (clearance \<30 ml/min)
• • Chronic anti-inflammatory treatment, long-term corticosteroid therapy \> 1 month, infiltration
• • Progressive pathology at the time of inclusion (cancer, etc.)
• • Gastrointestinal pathology deemed incompatible with the protocol
• • Unstable thyroid diseases
• • Recent change in eating habits in the last 30 days (weight loss diet, veganism, intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, etc.)
• • Intense physical activity (activity causing shortness of breath and sweating) \> 10 hours per week
• • Person in a period of exclusion from the National File of Healthy Volunteers
• • Subject under guardianship, curator-ship, deprived of liberty or under judicial protection