Reducing African Americans' Alzheimer's Disease Risk Through Exercise (RAATE)"
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 60 Years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
- Time periods mentioned: 52 weeks
Only what the study's summary and detailed description on ClinicalTrials.gov say. Time periods may describe the whole study or a part of it — ask the study team what applies to you.
Show the study's own words
- "Participants will be randomized into a physical activity promotion intervention or a healthy aging information group for 52 weeks."
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
The RAATE proposal is designed to determine the effects of physical activity on risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease in older African American adults. The study will compare a physical activity program to an active control group. There are three main objectives of the protocol: 1) to determine if a physical activity intervention tailored to older African American adults is effective in modifying cognitive function associated with Alzheimer's Disease, 2) to determine if a physical activity intervention tailored to older African American adults is effective in modifying brain function and structure associated with Alzheimer's Disease, and 3) to determine if a physical activity promotion intervention tailored to African American adults is effective at enhancing physiological parameters. The primary endpoints for the study are episodic memory and executive functioning. The secondary outcomes include anthropometry, blood pressure, brain activation, cerebral blood flow, volume of whole brain and white matter hyperintensities, cardiorespiratory fitness, objectively measured physical activity, circulating hormones, and telomere length.
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Official eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 1. self- identify as African American 2. 60 years and older 3. willing to accept randomization 4. willing to attend group sessions 5. lacking plans to move during the study period 6. free of conditions that would make regular exercise unsafe (e.g. uncontrolled asthma, severe sickle cell disease, etc.) 7. not engaged in regular physical activity 8. Short Physical Performance Battery score \>/= 4 9. physically capable of exercise, Exclusion Criteria: 1. cognitive impairment that would interfere with participating in group interactions 2. unwilling to give written informed consent 3. inability to attend group sessions 4. conditions that prevent regular exercise 5. conditions that the medical or principal investigator determine to warrant exclusion
Study sites (1)
LA
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Baton Rouge, LA 70808Melissa Harris, MA · Study contact · 2257633091 · Melissa.Harris@pbrc.eduJessica St. Romain, MA · Study contact · 2257632921 · Jessica.Stromain@pbrc.eduRobert L Newton, Jr., PhD · Study contactOwen Carmichael, PhD · Study contactMore trials in Baton Rouge