Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01163370
Creatine Supplementation and Bone Mass
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Resistance training as well as creatine supplementation may increase bone mass. Therefore, the investigators speculate that resistance training combined with creatine supplementation would promote additive benefits on bone mass in elderly women with osteopenia and osteoporosis.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | creatine supplementation | 20g/d for 7 days followed by 5g/d for 23 weeks |
| OTHER | exercise training | resistance training twice a week for 24 weeks |
| OTHER | placebo (dextrose) | 20g/d for 7 days followed by 5g/d for 23 weeks |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-07-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-08-01
- Completion
- 2011-08-01
- First posted
- 2010-07-15
- Last updated
- 2011-11-10
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01163370. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.