Kidney function declines with age and this could affect phosphate balance after an acute phosphate load (increased phosphate intake). In daily life, we regularly experience acute phosphate loads through our diet. The aim of this clinical study is to determine whether the body's response to increased phosphate intake changes with age and whether there are sex differences in this response.
Forty subjects (males and females aged 18-25 or 63-70) will ingest an oral phosphate load, after which their body's response will be assessed by collecting blood and urine samples over a period of ten hours.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
Participants ingest an oral phosphate load containing 558 mg of phosphorus once.
Phosphate in plasma
Phosphate in plasma 4 hours after the oral phosphate load shows age differences
Time frame: The primary outcome will be measured 5 hours after the first blood collection on the day of the study and 4 hours after ingesting the oral phosphate load.
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