Food Typologies and Multidimensional Phenotyping of Elderly in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Part'AGE)

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Conditions studied: Nutritional Assessment, Physical Activity, Health, Oral Health

In brief

To better understand how diet influences health during aging, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) is working with the Gérontopôle Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on a project called Part'AGE. Part'AGE is a participatory research project where researchers want to recruit 1,000 people aged between 55 and 75 years, men and women, living in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in urban or rural areas. The goal is to study eating habits and state of health. To do this, researchers will examine many factors that can influence them, such as physical activity, overall health, consumption patterns or territories. Researchers will collect detailed information to classify participants into different groups (food typologies) based on their eating habits and state of health. With this distribution, the goal is to be able to give each group personalized nutritional advice to age in better health. To participate in the study, the participants will need to collect a few drops of blood from the end of the finger, a urine sample, and do some tests (mobility, oral health). It will also be necessary to fill out questionnaires on eating habits, physical activity, and other aspects that may influence health. The benefices for to participants will be to contribute to nutrition research and to receive personalized feedback and advices on eating habits.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06695780

Run by

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement

People needed

1000

Starts

2025-02-03

Expected to finish

2028-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-27

Who can join

Age: 55 and older, up to 75. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male or female (balanced sex ratio or at least 40% male to 60% female) in complete autonomy at home.
• 55 to 75 years old, including the limits
• 20 ≤ BMI ≤35 kg/m2
• Available to carry out the entire protocol, including self-sampling (not sensitive to the sight of one's own blood for example) and agreeing to stop taking food supplements during the study.
• Having a scale available: at home, pharmacy, family, etc.
• Having internet access and a device with a screen and camera (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) at home or able to go to a project partner (CCAS, Point France Service, Community, Association, etc.) that can provide this access
• Subject agreeing to give written consent (by phone or videoconferencing), and registration in the national file of volunteers who participate in research
• Person declaring to be subject to a social security scheme.

You may not qualify if…

• Weight loss ≥ 5% in 1 month or ≥ 10% in 6 months or ≥ 10% compared to usual weight
• Treated diabetes
• Sub-acute pathology (flu, gastroenteritis, bacterial infection, etc.) or trauma (fracture, surgical intervention, etc.) in the 30 days prior to inclusion.
• Hepatocellular insufficiency,
• Heart failure with decompensation,
• Renal insufficiency (clearance <30 ml/min)
• Chronic anti-inflammatory treatment, long-term corticosteroid therapy > 1 month, infiltration
• Progressive pathology at the time of inclusion (cancer, etc.)
• Gastrointestinal pathology deemed incompatible with the protocol
• Unstable thyroid diseases
• Recent change in eating habits in the last 30 days (weight loss diet, veganism, intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, etc.)
• Intense physical activity (activity causing shortness of breath and sweating) > 10 hours per week
• Person in a period of exclusion from the National File of Healthy Volunteers
• Subject under guardianship, curator-ship, deprived of liberty or under judicial protection

Where it is running

• Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Rhône-Alpes — Pierre-Bénite, Rhone, France (enrolling)
• ICADOM — Meylan, Isere, France

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