Multicultural Healthy Diet to Reduce Cognitive Decline

What Is This Study About?

This 18-month trial will investigate whether the Multicultural Healthy Diet can improve cognitive functioning in middle-aged adults living in an urban setting. The Multicultural Healthy Diet emphasizes plant-based foods and limits animal and high-saturated fat foods. Participants will be randomly assigned to the study diet or to their usual diet and sessions that focus on self-care, such as dealing with aches and pains of aging. Researchers will measure the effect the diet has through real-time cognitive assessments and changes in nutrition and plasma biomarkers.

Do I Qualify To Participate in This Study?

Must have:

• Living, working, attending school or visiting Co-op City, Bronx 
• Willingness to accept assignment to intervention or comparison diet group
• Willingness to participate in a study in which weight loss is not a primary goal

Must NOT have:

• Cognitively impaired
• History of traumatic brain injury
• Psychiatric illness
• History of diabetes and experiencing hypoglycemia
• Liver disease
• Uncontrolled high blood pressure (greater than 140/90 mmHg)
• History of heart disease that affects physical functioning
• Severe chronic illness
• Low literacy
• History of alcohol or drug dependence
• Blood disease or malignancy not in remission for more than 5 years
• Visual, hearing, or motor impairment that would interfere with cognitive testing
• Chronic kidney disease on dialysis or special diet

If I Qualify, Who Do I Contact?

Contact study personnel listed either under the general study contact or the location nearest you.

 

Where Is This Study Located?

Who Sponsors This Study?

Lead: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc.

Collaborator Sponsor

• Penn State University
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
• National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03240406