Comparative Effects of Aerobic Exercises, Resistance Training and Combined Training on Heart Failure Patients

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Aerobic exercises; Other: Combined training; Other: Resistance exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04937231

REC/00880 Mahnoor Shabbir

Details and patient eligibility

About

To compare the effectiveness of aerobic training and resistance training and combined training on heart failure patients.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Heart failure patients with ejection fraction greater than 35%

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with unstable angina
• Patients who had severe pain in the lower limbs
• Patients with Blood pressure greater than 190/120mmHg were excluded
• Patients who had positive contraindication for cardiac rehabilitation were not admitted in this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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92 participants in 3 patient groups

Aerobic exercises

Experimental group

Description:

Treadmill and Cycle ergometer

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic exercises

Resistance exercises

Experimental group

Description:

unilateral leg press, Bilateral leg press, unilateral arm curls

Treatment:

Other: Resistance exercises

Combined training

Experimental group

Description:

Treadmill and Cycle ergometer along with resistive Training

Treatment:

Other: Combined training