Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03196440
Sensitivity of Basic Taste in Elderly
Thresholds Analysis of Five Basic Tastes in the Elderly Population
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 280 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- —
Summary
The purpose of this study is to identify the thresholds sensitivity of the five basic tastes in an elderly population and relate to food intake, nutritional status, age, gender and others variables.
Detailed description
The investigators propose a study of 300 elderly patients to characterize de sensitivity of the four basic tastes, according to the methodology of International Organization for Standardization (1985) and to identify umami taste (Mojet et al. 2001, 2003). This is a cross-sectional study. The length of the inclusion of the study will be 24 months. This study's general objective is: to characterize food intake, nutritional status and identify thresholds for the five basic tastes in an elderly population.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-07-07
- Primary completion
- 2019-08-29
- Completion
- 2019-08-29
- First posted
- 2017-06-22
- Last updated
- 2020-09-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03196440. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.