Multicultural Healthy Diet to Reduce Cognitive Decline
Recruiting
This 18-month trial is designed to investigate whether the Multicultural Healthy Diet, an anti-inflammatory diet tailored to a multicultural population, can improve cognitive functioning in urban-dwelling adults.
Minimum Age | Maximum Age | Gender | Healthy Volunteers |
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40 Years | 65 Years | All | Yes |
- Resident of Co-op City, Bronx, NY
- 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
- Sub-optimal diet
- Cognitively impaired
- History of traumatic brain injury
- Psychiatric illness
- History of diabetes treated with a medication that may cause hypoglycemia
- Kidney or liver disease
- Uncontrolled high blood pressure (greater than 140/90 mmHg)
- History of heart disease
- 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
The Multicultural Healthy Diet emphasizes plant-based foods and limited animal and high-saturated fat foods. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the study diet or to their usual diet plus sessions that focus on self-care, such as dealing with aches and pains of aging and obtaining a healthcare proxy. Researchers will measure changes in cognitive function through assessments, as well as changes in biological markers of oxidative stress and inflammation.
Name | City | State | Zip | Status | Primary Contact |
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Bronx | New York | 10461 | Recruiting |
Vanessa Claris, B.S. 718-430-3823 vanessa.claris@einsteinmed.org |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc.
- Penn State University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Name | Role | Affiliation |
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Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D, RD | Principal Investigator | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. |
Name | Phone | |
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Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., RD | 718-430-2136 | yasmin.mossavar-rahmani@einstein.yu.edu |
Mindy Katz | 718-430-3885 | mindy.katz@einstein.yu.edu |
Multicultural Healthy Diet to Reduce Cognitive Decline & Alzheimer's Disease Risk