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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON41399
NL-OMON41399CompletedNot Applicable

Functional MRI of food evaluation and choice in normal weight and overweight subjects across the lifespan - fMRI of food evaluation and choice in overweight across the lifespan

niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht0 sites120 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Not Applicable
Status
Completed
Sponsor
Enrollment
120

Study Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Study Design

Study Type
Observational

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
2 to 99 (—)

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1.Healthy (self-reported)
  • 2. Age group 1: 8-10, group 2: 13-17, group 3: 25-45 and group 4:65-75 at day 01 of the study
  • 3. Body Mass Index (BMI): between 20 and 25 kg/m2 (normal weight adults) or 25.1 and 35 kg/m2 (overweight adults). For children and adolescents we calculated BMI ranges based on age and gender by using the growth reference data for 5-19 year olds of the World Health Organization (Butte, Garza et al. 2007). A BMI range of -1SD to +1SD in children equals approximately a BMI of 20-25 in adults; A BMI range of +1SD to +3SD in children equals approximately a BMI of 25-35.0 in adults.
  • 4. Right-handed
  • 5. Having given their written informed consent and in children, written informed consent from children and both parents.
  • 6. Willing to comply with the study procedures
  • 7. Willing to accept use of all anonymized data, including publication, and the confidential use and storage of all data
  • 8. Willing to be informed about chance findings of pathology and approving of the disclosure of this information to the general physician (see Informed Consent)

Exclusion Criteria

  • 2.Having a special diet (e.g. to lose weight, medically prescribed diet in the past 6 months, no meat etc)
  • 3.Highly restraint eating (Van Strien et al., 1986).
  • 4.Having a food allergy
  • 5.Having gained or lost >5 kg of body weight in the past 6 months.
  • 6.Having a history of or current alcohol consumption > 28 units per week
  • 7.Having a history of medical or surgical events that may significantly affect the study outcome, such as metabolic or endocrine disease, or any gastro-intestinal disorder
  • 8.Mental or physical status that is incompatible with the proper conduct of the study
  • 9.Not having a general practitioner
  • 10.Participation in any other clinical trial during this study.
  • 11.Working at the Image Sciences Institute or the Radiology Department of the UMC Utrecht as employee or student.
  • 12.MRI exclusion criteria
  • a)Claustrophobia
  • b)Having metal implants (i.e. pacemaker, metal joints, prostheses, etc.) or metal objects on the body which cannot be removed (i.e. piercing, hearing aid, brace, etc.
  • c)Being pregnant.
  • 13. Task related exclusion criteria
  • a)Unsuccessful satiation of the participant (i.e. hungry after protein shake consumption)
  • 14. Menopause (applies only to women of age group 1 (25-45 years old))

Investigators

Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht

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