Cardiovascular and Muscular Adaptations to Recreational Soccer and Strength Training in Elderly Healthy 65-75-year-old Men

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adaptation Reaction

Treatments: Other: physical training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01530035

H-1-2011-013

Details and patient eligibility

About

A one-year intervention study of 41 healthy elderly men aged 65-75-years.Of these, 24 subjects are untrained men with no regular training activity for the last 5 years. After medical screening and pre-testing, they will be randomized into a football group (n=9), a strength-training group (n=9) or a sedentary control group (n=6). Additional 17 subjects are recruited from local football clubs and have been active football players for the last 40 years. Training will be performed 3x1 hour per week and evaluation will take place after 0, 3 and 12 months. Primary endpoints will be changes in cardiac and vascular structure and function measured by advanced echocardiography (tissue Doppler and speckle tracking imaging), and peripheral arterial tonometry (Endo---PAT device). Secondary endpoints will be evaluation of potential changes in VO2 max, blood pressure, muscle capillaries, lipid profile, circulating catecholamines, body composition, and insulin resistance.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 65-75 year old men
• healthy
• non-smoking
• non-hypertension
• non- cardiac disease

Exclusion criteria

• smoking
• cardiac disease
• biomechanical disorders
• cardiac medication

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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41 participants in 4 patient groups

soccer training intervention

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: physical training

strength training intervention

Other group

Treatment:

Other: physical training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

elderly men with no change in daily activities

active soccer control group

No Intervention group

Description:

veteran soccer players with a 40 year history of continues soccer playing