Active clinical trials for "Sarcopenia"

Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disease, characterised by low muscle strength and muscle mass, and associated with higher medical care costs, shorter life expectancy and physical dependence. Sarcopenia affects around 1 in 10 older adults in the general population. However, in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), this number is almost 3 in 10. Patients who have CHD are offered cardiac rehabilitation (CR); a multicomponent programme designed to improve long-term health outcomes. Nutritional education is an important part of CR and typically focuses around modifying fat and carbohydrate intake to lower cholesterol levels and achieve a healthy weight. Currently there is little focus on increasing protein intake, which might reduce the risk of sarcopenia. Eligible patients with CHD and low protein intake will receive the standard nutritional education delivered during CR. Next, participants will be randomised to one of two groups: protein education (intervention), or standard information (control). Whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place, education will be delivered remotely via pre-recorded video. Outcome measures, including protein intake, sit to stand performance, sarcopenia risk score (modified SARC-F), Physical Activity Vital Signs (PAVS) and waist circumference, will be assessed at baseline, at the end of the standard CR programme and after a follow-up period of the same duration as the CR programme.

The objective of this study is to examine if functional high-density, high-volume chair rise training is feasible for increasing lower extremity strength without causing excessive hip pain during execution in patients with hip fracture following a municipality -based outpatient rehabilitation program. Feasibility criteria is defined as: 1) hip fracture-related pain might increase during the exercise programme, but not persistent after each session. 2) adherence to the program must be 75% or more. 3) Less than 20% drop-outs due to pain and/or discomfort during training.

This study aims to demonstrate the effect of combined exercise-nutrition intervention in old adults with sarcopenia. This study will be conducted with prospectively randomized controlled trial comparing outcome of combined exercise-nutrition intervention with conventional medical care. Handgrip strength, gait speed, knee extensor muscle power, physical performance, muscle mass using DEXA, quality of life, activities of daily living, sarcopenia screening questionnaire, nutritional assessment will be evaluated on baseline, 12-weeks and 24-weeks after intervention.

Aging is associated with a loss of muscle mass, termed sarcopenia, that reduces mobility, decreases physical function and accelerates progression of other age-related disorders. This study is designed to determine whether increasing skeletal muscle capillarization through aerobic exercise will enhance muscular adaptations to strength training in older adults with sarcopenia.

Introduction: The efficacy of existing therapies for the treatment of sarcopenia is still not satisfactory. Therefore, this randomized controlled, assessor-blinded study was designed to investigate the efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture(EA) therapy in elderly patients with sarcopenia. Methods and analysis: This randomized controlled trial will enroll 120 elderly patients with sarcopenia. Subjects will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either EA combined with rehabilitation training group or rehabilitation training group through a central computerized randomization system. Primary outcome measure is lower limb mobility, including 6-minute walk test、timed get up and go test, and short physical performance battery. Secondary outcome measures include lower limb muscle mass and lower limb muscle strength. Outcome assessment will be conducted before the intervention, at 12 weeks after the intervention and at the end of the 12-week follow-up. Adverse reactions will be evaluated during the trial. Conclusion: This research will provide evidence to clarify whether EA is effective and safe in the treatment of sarcopenia.

The study will be conducted to investigate the efficacy, tolerability and pharmacokinetics of MYMD1 in participants with chronic inflammation associated with sarcopenia/frailty, a condition linked to elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines.

Aims: Clinical frailty severely impacts the physical, functional and physiological reserves necessary for the recovery after surgery. Sarcopenia, a multifactorial, multi-organ process which lead to loss of muscle mass over time, eventually resulting in clinical frailty. These 2 entities result in an increased morbidity and mortality from surgery. They also lead to a slower recovery from surgery with some patients never reaching baseline function after their surgery. It is, therefore, important to optimize patients with sarcopenia prior to surgery to reduce the incidence of morbidity and mortality. Nutrition and resistance training have been shown to be able to curb the effects of sarcopenia. However, the type and regime of nutrition is still unknown. Hypotheses: The study team hypothesize that Ensure Plus Advance + HMB (beta-hydoxy-beta-methylbutyrate) would reduce the amount of IMAT (inter and intramuscular adipose tissue) in sarocpaenic patients after 2-4 weeks of prehabilitation. This effect would be sustained even after surgery and would continue to improve up to 3-months post-surgery whilst participating in rehabilitation. Taking Ensure Plus Advance + HMB would also improve functional parameters after prehabilitation, ensure a similar QoL 1-month post-surgery even if biochemical parameters may not show a significant improvement. Methods: The investigators would be conducting a pilot interventional cohort with an institution with an established prehabilitation programme (SKH) to evaluate the effect of the use a high protein, high calorie oral nutritional supplement (ONS) with HMB on muscle quality, using a device with Automated Intelligence (AI), in sarcopenic patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery. Primary outcomes will be changes in Intermuscular Adipose Tissue (IMAT) while secondary outcomes include changes in functional parameters, quality-of-life (QoL), surgical outcomes and biochemical results.

The goal of this Clinical Trial is to analyze effect of Ophiochepalus striatus extract on serum IGF-1 and IL-6 levels in elderly patients with sarcopenia. The main questions it aims to answer are: Can giving Ophiocephalus striatus extract at a dose of 2x5 grams for 2 weeks increase IGF-1 levels in elderly people with sarcopenia? Can administration of 2x5 grams dose of Ophiocephalus striatus extract for 2 weeks reduce IL-6 levels in elderly with sarcopenia? Can the administration of Ophiocephalus striatus extract at a dose of 2x5 grams for 2 weeks reduce the SARC-F score in elderly people with sarcopenia? Can the administration of Ophiocephalus striatus extract at a dose of 2x5 grams for 2 weeks increase muscle mass in elderly people with sarcopenia? Can the administration of Ophiocephalus striatus extract at a dose of 2x5 grams for 2 weeks increase muscle strength in elderly people with sarcopenia? Can administration of Ophiocephalus striatus extract at a dose of 2x5 grams for 2 weeks improve physical performance in elderly with sarcopenia? Participants will: Consume Ophiochepalus striatus extract 2x5 grams a day. Checked blood before and after the intervention. Measured muscle mass, muscle strength, and physical performance before and after the intervention.

To explore the efficacy of a 12-week resistance exercise programme plus or minus an oral nutritional supplement on the nutritional status of community-dwelling older adults who receive homecare and are at risk of both malnutrition and sarcopenia.

Sarcopenia characterised by loss of muscle mass, muscle strength and physical performance burdens many older adults since the condition is related to functional decline. Periods of inactivity such as during hospitalisation leads to further functional decline. It has been reported that the loss of muscle mass associated with sarcopenia not only entails a decrease in muscle mass but also changes in muscle architecture. Knowledge on changes in muscle architecture is essential since it is one of the most important determinants on muscle strength and thus physical performance. The main objective of this study is to investigate changes in muscle architecture and physical performance during acute hospitalisation and after discharge in older adults and subsequently the effectiveness of resistance training of the lower limb during acute hospitalisation. If successful, our study could have a great impact on the individual, as well as societal level, due to a better understanding of the factors related to sarcopenia and the prevention of functional decline as a result of hospitalisation.