We have just released our latest MID-Frail consortium newsletter with a round-up of all the project news – you can read it here [1]. The big story is that as of March 2015 we have 65 sites active and 500 subjects recruited.

The study executive committee has decided to institute an Intellectual Property Committee (IPC) for the MID-Frail study, like the one we have for the Frailomic project. The purpose of the IPC is to ensure consensus of all participating partners on the publications process, so that dissemination of our findings runs as smoothly as possible in the future. The IPC representatives will be expected to oversee and approve all MID-Frail-related publications (including abstracts, posters and oral presentations at conferences), ensuring that they do not infringe on patent applications.

The newsletter also reports on great advances in our publication strategy with a poster entitled ‘Evaluation of a therapeutic insole device on postural stability in older people with type 2 diabetes (SENSOLE feasibility study)’ being accepted for presentation at the International Academy Nutrition and Aging meeting in Barcelona, Spain in June.

This meeting will discuss various topics, with an underlying theme of preventing frailty and loss of function with advancing age. The proceedings will be published in the Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging. The Sensole sub-study is designed to analyse kinetic and kinematic movement data. In addition, a manuscript describing the conduct and results of the first part of the Sensole sub-study is being prepared. Keep reading the newsletters for further updates on this manuscript! More information can be found on the consortium website [2].

References

1. MID-Frail consortium newsletter #7
2. www.midfrail‐study.org