Healthy Aging Through Dietary Intervention

Summary

To test the impact of flavanol supplementation of cardiac and vascular function and subsequently on exercise capacity in elderly individuals

Timeline

Start

2019-04-01

Primary completion

2022-09-30

Completion

2023-02-05

Publications

• Duse DA, Grone M, Ophoff N, Kramser N, Schweers H, Ottaviani J, Schroeter H, Quast C, Bonner F, Heiss C, Sansone R, Jung C, Kelm M, Erkens R. Cocoa flavanols alleviate early diastolic dysfunction by decreasing left atrial volume in a randomized double blinded trial in healthy older individuals. Food Funct. 2025 Nov 10;16(22):8836-8845. doi: 10.1039/d5fo02589c.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.