Reducing African Americans' Alzheimer's Disease Risk Through Exercise (RAATE)"
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Dementia, Alzheimer Type
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 60 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Prevention
- Participants needed
- 125 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Other
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About This Trial
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 c…
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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 sic…
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