Effect of Whole Body Electromyostimulation and/or Protein Supplementation on Sarcopenic Obesity in 70+

PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

100

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 31, 2016

Primary Completion Date

February 28, 2017

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2017

Conditions
Sarcopenic Obesity
Interventions
OTHER

Whole body Electromyostimulation (exercise)

1.5 x 20 min/week (e.g. each Tuesday and every second Friday) with bipolar current, 85 Hz, 360 µs, rectangular mode, intermittent with 4 sec of current and 4 s of rest.

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Protein

up to 1.5-1.7 g/kg bodymass/d of protein (whey protein)

Trial Locations (1)

91052

Institute of Medical Physics, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Institute of Medical Physics

UNKNOWN

collaborator

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Institute of Biomedicine of Aging

UNKNOWN

lead

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School

OTHER

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