The effect of a combination of orange- and pomegranate actives on physical fitness in elderly people

Completed

Conditions: fitheid
performance
physical fitness

Registration Number: NL-OMON46427

Lead Sponsor: Bioactor BV

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 37

Inclusion Criteria

Healthy male/female (based on medical history provided during a general health questionnaire); Age between 60 * 75

Exclusion Criteria

- Allergy to test product/placebo
- Allergy to citrus fruits
- BMI lower than 18 or higher than 28
- Recent muscle injury in less than one month before the start of the study.
- Medical conditions that might influence outcome measure or participant safety during testing, including but not limited to: severe cardiovascular disease, cancer, Parkinson*s disease. To be decided by PI.
- High blood pressure (systolic * 140 mmHg, diastolic * 90 mmHg (40)
- Use of medication that may interfere with the study results
- Smoking
- Administration of investigational drugs or participation in any scientific intervention study which may interfere with this study (to be decided by the principle investigator), in the 180 days prior to the study.
- Abuse of products; alcohol (> 20 alcoholic units per week) and drugs.
- Unable to correctly perform the tests during the familiarization test

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Main endpoints are distance covered during a 6 minute walk test (6 MWT) </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Secondary endpoints include the quality of life, as measured by the WHOQOL-BREF<br /><br>questionnaire, lower body strength as measured by the 30s chair stand test,<br /><br>upper body strenght as measured by an arm curl test, lower body flexibility as<br /><br>measured by a chair sit and reach test, upper body flexibility as measured by a<br /><br>back scatch test, heart rate (HR) in rest and during a 6 minute walk test,<br /><br>daily physical activity measured with accelerometer, and blood parameters of<br /><br>antioxidative capacity and inflammation.</p><br>