12 Weeks of Resistance Band Exercise Impacts on Adiposity, Hormones, and Blood Pressure in Postmenopausal Women

Pusan National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Hormone Disturbance; Adiposity

Treatments: Other: No exercise intervention group; Other: Resistance band exercise intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03919201

PusanNU-4

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of a 12-week resistance band exercise program on body composition, aging-related hormones, and blood pressure in postmenopausal women with stage 1 hypertension. Twenty postmenopausal women with hypertension participated in this study. Participants were randomly allocated into the resistance band training group (EX, n = 10) or the control group (CON, n = 10). The EX group performed a resistance band exercise training program at jump rope training program at 40-70% of their heart rate reserve (HRR) 5 days/week for 12 weeks (sessions 60 minutes in duration). The CON group did not participate in any exercise, dietary, or behavioral intervention. Body composition, aging-related hormones (growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor 1, dehydroepiandrosterone, and estradiol), and blood pressure were measured before and after the 12-weeks study.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• postmenopausal
• hypertensive
• sedentary (no regular exercise training or physical activity within previous year)

Exclusion criteria

• premenopausal
• renal, pulmonary, and/or heart disease
• regularly physically active

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

No exercise intervention

Treatment:

Other: No exercise intervention group

Resistance band exercise intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Exercise intervention group (resistance band exercise training for 12 weeks, 5x per week, for 60 minutes per day).

Treatment:

Other: Resistance band exercise intervention