Genes, Exercise, Memory and Neurodegeneration

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Alzheimer's Disease

In brief

The primary purpose of this pilot study is to determine whether African Americans with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be enrolled and retained in a 6-month aerobic exercise-training study.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01021644

Run by

Howard University

People needed

73

Starts

2009-10-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-02-14

Who can join

Age: 60 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age over 60 years
• Ability to exercise vigorously without harm
• Mild AD
• Study partner
• In good general health
• Willing to exercise for 6 months
• Body Mass Index (BMI) less than 37
• Women participants must be postmenopausal for at least 2 years, and maintain current hormone replacement therapy status and allowed medication usage for the duration of the study

You may not qualify if…

• MMSE score below 20
• TG (Triglyceride) greater than 400 mg/dl
• LDL-C levels greater than 95% or HDL-C levels less than 10% of age and sex-adjusted norms

Where it is running

• Howard University General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• Temple University Exercise Physiology Laboratory — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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