NCT02013466

Amino Acid Bioavailability in Healthy Elderly After Intake of an Oral Nutritional Supplement

Amino Acid Bioavailability in Healthy Elderly After Bolus Intake of a High Whey-protein, Leucine-rich, Low-caloric Oral Nutritional Supplement

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nutricia Research · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study healthy older adults are requested to consume 4 different high-protein nutritional supplements. Each subject will visit the site 4 times and at every visit they will consume 1 of the 4 products after which a series of blood samples will be taken. The blood samples will be analyzed for amino acid bioavailability in the blood up to 4 hours after consumption.

Conditions

• Sarcopenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Bolus ONS A	High-whey protein, leucine-rich, low-caloric ONS in powder format
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Bolus ONS B	High casein-protein, low-caloric control product (isocaloric to product A)
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Bolus ONS C	High casein-protein, high-caloric control product.
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Bolus ONS D	high whey-protein, leucine-rich, high-caloric control product (isocaloric to product C)

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-02-01
• Completion: 2009-02-01
• First posted: 2013-12-17
• Last updated: 2013-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands