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Nutritional AssessmentPart'AGENCT06695780

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

An observational study of Nutritional Assessment and Physical Activity, run by Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement at 2 sites in France.

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Trial summary

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. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 55 to 75 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Nutritional Assessment, Physical Activity, Health
What is being tested?
survey on eating behavior, physical activity and health status
How many people
1,000 participants
Where
2 sitesFrance
Study dates
3 Feb 2025to Feb 2028
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 55 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Participants will be recruited from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, taking care to recruit both urban and rural people.

Who may be able to join

  • 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.

Who cannot join

  • 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)
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  • 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

Trial locations and contacts

2 sites in 1 country. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Sergio Polakof, Ph D contact

+33 4 73 62 48 95

sergio.polakof@inrae.fr

Laurent Mosoni, Ph D contact

+33 4 73 62 48 27

laurent.mosoni@inrae.fr

France2 sites, 2 recruiting
  • ICADOM

    Meylan, Isere, 38240

    Aysegul Celik, Master, +33 4 76 51 03 04, a.celik@icadom.com

    Aysegul Celik, Master

    Not yet recruiting
  • Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine Rhône-Alpes

    Pierre-Bénite, Rhone, 69310

    Louise Seconda, Ph D, +33 4 78 86 39 94, ext-louise.seconda@chu-lyon.fr

    Louise Seconda, Ph D

    Recruiting

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About this study

Official title: Exploration Des Typologies Alimentaires et caractérisation Par un phénotypage Multidimensionnel d'Une Population de Personnes âgées de la région Auvergne-Rhône Alpes

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.

Read the detailed description

The main objective of the study is to characterize the food consumption profile of a population of people aged 55 to 75, men and women, living in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, either in an urban or rural environment. The aim is to classify volunteers into dietary typologies associated with more or less successful aging. Thus, the investigators will classify volunteers into five dietary typologies:

  1. Typology "at risk of malnutrition": volunteers who do not cover their daily protein-energy needs, i.e. having daily protein-energy intakes estimated by food consumption data lower than the needs estimated by the Mifflin and St Jeor equation (based on anthropometric and physical activity measurements).
  2. "Balanced diet without cardio-metabolic risk" typology: volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, with an aHEI (Alternative Healthy Eating Index) score greater than 80 and with a waist circumference less than or equal to 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women.
  3. "Diet to improve without cardio-metabolic risk" typology: volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, with an aHEI score less than or equal to 80 and with a waist circumference less than or equal to 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women.
  4. "Balanced diet with cardio-metabolic risk" typology: volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, with an aHEI score greater than 80 and with a waist circumference greater than 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women.
  5. Typology "diet to improve with cardio-metabolic risk": volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, presenting an aHEI score less than or equal to 80 and with a waist circumference greater than 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women.

For each of these dietary typologies, the investigators will explore the diversity of: cardio-metabolic capacities; diet; mobility; health status (oral health, intestinal health, stress, fatigue, anxiety, sleep, addictions); the psychological-socio-economic dimension; biological parameters obtained after the collection of biological samples.

This study will be entirely carried out by correspondence, without the volunteers needing to travel. Wide communication on the study will first be carried out in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. A phone number and an email address of the research team will be left for people wishing more information. Volunteers will directly contact the administrative agent in charge of selection in order to leave their contact details. The administrative agent will respond or contact the participants in return to present the study in its entirety, tell them about their rights, and check their eligibility. If they are eligible and interested, volunteers will be sent the information form and a connection guide by email or by post and an appointment will be scheduled for a dematerialized inclusion visit with a study investigator. The inclusion visit will be carried out remotely, from a secure platform. Upon receipt of consent, the investigators will assign an identification number to the volunteer and will trigger the sending by post of a phenotyping BOX to their home containing all the material necessary to carry out the study, accompanied by an explanatory note. The volunteers will connect to a secure platform to complete 29 questionnaires, will carry out functional tests and anthropometric measurements and will collect their biological samples (blood drops and urine). Volunteers will send their biological samples to the INRAE laboratory within 2 days of their collection.

In return, volunteers will have the opportunity to:

  • participate in the regional hubs of the Part'AGE project: these hubs will be made up of nutrition-prevention-health stakeholders for successful aging. The trial volunteers will thus be able to participate in the collective meetings of these hubs to benefit from overall feedback on the project and awareness of the different dimensions studied within the framework of the protocol.
  • Personalized feedback proposed by the investigator at the end of the project, including a qualitative assessment of dietary typology of participants, as well as their strengths and weaknesses on the other dimensions studied. This assessment will provide an image of their own typology, but also provide a benchmark in relation to other volunteers (averages), also depending on the territories.
Being tested
survey on eating behavior, physical activity and health status
Keywords
eating behaviors, elderly, health, phenotyping, food typologies, prevention
Medical subject headings
Motor Activity, Feeding Behavior

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • survey on eating behavior, physical activity and health statusOther

    Participatory research: participants will carry out surveys, functional tests and urine and blood sampling completely independently

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Classification of our study population into 5 dietary typologies associated with more or less successful aging

    1. Typology "at risk of malnutrition": volunteers who do not cover their daily protein-energy needs, i.e. having daily protein-energy intakes estimated by food consumption data lower than the needs estimated by the Mifflin and St Jeor equation (based on anthropometric and physical activity measurements).
    2. "Balanced diet without cardio-metabolic risk" typology: volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, with an aHEI (Alternative Healthy Eating Index) score greater than 80 and with a waist circumference less than or equal to 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women.
    3. "Diet to improve without cardio-metabolic risk" typology: volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, with an aHEI score less than or equal to 80 and with a waist circumference less than or equal to 94 cm for men and 80 cm for women.
    4. "Balanced diet with cardio-metabolic risk" typology: volunteers covering their daily protein-energy needs, with an aHEI score greater than 80 and with a waist circumference

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 days

Secondary outcomes (6)
  1. Blood parameters and waist-to-hip ratio

    Assessment of glucose, C-peptide, triglycerides, cholesterol, amino acids, prealbumin and CRP levels in fingertip blood collected at home, and waist-to-hip ratio.

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 day

  2. Assessment of dietary habits and choices

    Assessment of dietary habits and choices by: polyphenol-targeted food frequency questionnaire, appetite questionnaire (Council on Nutrition Appetite Questionnaire, CNAQ), questionnaire on food expectations and choices, on culinary practices, supply, and nutritional perceptions. Assessment of diet quality with various scores (DQI, PNNS-GS, DII) and post-hoc analyses.

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 day

  3. Assessment of physical capacities and physical activity

    Assessment of physical capacities and physical activity with the chair rise test, calf circumference measurement and two questionnaires (IPAQ, and RPAQ/ONAPS) aimed at assessing physical activity and sedentary lifestyle.

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 day

  4. Assessment of several dimensions of health

    Assessment of several dimensions of health: 1) oral health (masticatory performance, number of posterior functional units, GOHAI questionnaire on quality of life related to oral health, EAT-10 questionnaire on dysphagia/swallowing, XI questionnaire on dry mouth and the CIF questionnaire on oral dysfunctions); 2) intestinal health (intestinal transit questionnaire and intestinal comfort questionnaire (IGQ); 3) various aspects of quality of life (stress, fatigue, anxiety, sleep, addictions, etc.).

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 day

  5. Assessment of psycho-socio-economic status

    Assessment of psycho-socio-economic status: questionnaire on precariousness (EPICES score), loneliness (De Jong Gierveld scale), desired healthy aging, quality of life (CAPS-19 scale), well-being profile, satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs. Assessment of personality traits and budget dedicated to food purchases.

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 day

  6. Collection of blood and urine samples.

    Collection of blood and urine samples.

    Measured: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 day

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted19 Nov 2024
  2. Study start3 Feb 2025
  3. Primary completionFeb 2027 (estimated)
  4. Study completionFeb 2028 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Ecologic or community
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrolment
1,000 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06695780
Sponsor's protocol ID
2024-AO1319-38
Acronym
Part'AGE
Status last verified
Mar 2026
First submitted
18 Nov 2024
Last updated
27 Mar 2026
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No: As soon as possible, results will be published. Upon requests, sharing of data could be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Publications

  • de Toro-Martin J, Arsenault BJ, Despres JP, Vohl MC. Precision Nutrition: A Review of Personalized Nutritional Approaches for the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Syndrome. Nutrients. 2017 Aug 22;9(8):913. doi: 10.3390/nu9080913.

    PubMed 28829397
  • Berry SE, Valdes AM, Drew DA, Asnicar F, Mazidi M, Wolf J, Capdevila J, Hadjigeorgiou G, Davies R, Al Khatib H, Bonnett C, Ganesh S, Bakker E, Hart D, Mangino M, Merino J, Linenberg I, Wyatt P, Ordovas JM, Gardner CD, Delahanty LM, Chan AT, Segata N, Franks PW, Spector TD. Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition. Nat Med. 2020 Jun;26(6):964-973. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0934-0. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

    PubMed 32528151

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Nutritional Assessment and Physical Activity, run by Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement at 2 sites in France.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 8 inclusion and 14 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: looking for participants now, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Mar 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 2 sites in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Sergio Polakof, Ph D (+33 4 73 62 48 95, sergio.polakof@inrae.fr), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Classification of our study population into 5 dietary typologies associated with more or less successful aging (time frame: From enrollment to the end of the surveys at 30 days). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06695780, which also lists 2 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Mar 2026.

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