Comparison of the Effects of Green Exercise Programs on Metabolic Syndrome Parameters in Elderly Individuals

Istanbul Medeniyet University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Other: green exercise with aerobic exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05251597

Green exercise

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of exercise programs that only aerobic exercise and combination aerobic exercise and resistance exercises on the metabolic syndrome parameters in the green exercise concept.

Full description

One hundred twenty volunteer participants aged 65 years over will be included in the study. Participants will be randomly divided into three groups as aerobic, aerobic and resistance and control group. While a group will receive only aerobic exercise, the other group group will receive both aerobic and resistance exercises and one of the group will receive no exercise. Exercises will be held in an open and green area. At the beginning of the treatment and at the end of the twelfth week Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), Triglyceride, Hdl cholesterol, Ldl cholesterol, total cholesterol and blood glucose will be evaluated.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• people aged over 65 years
• Be fit to participate in exercise program after the first cardiac examination by the physician
• Individuals whose blood lipids, Hg a1c and glucose values were checked within 3 months
• According to the International Physical Activity Assessment Questionnaire, those who are physically inactive
• Having a score above 24 in the Minimental Test

Exclusion criteria

• Having neuromuscular disease
• Serious medical condition (for example, advanced malignancy or major neurological, psychiatric or endocrine disease, respiratory failure, etc.)
• Having an orthopedic disease that interferes with walking
• Having a score below 24 in the Minimental Test

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

green exercise group-1 (aerobic)

Experimental group

Description:

Forty participants who meet the inclusion criteria will first be given warm-up exercises for 10 minutes, then walking at a moderate intensity (65% of heart rate) for 40 minutes and then stretching exercises for 5 minutes

Treatment:

Other: green exercise with aerobic exercise

green exercise group-2 (aerobic+resistance)

Experimental group

Description:

For 40 participants who met the inclusion criteria, first 10 minutes of warm-up exercises, then 20 minutes of moderate-intensity (65% of heart rate) walking, followed by 10 minutes of low-intensity (50% of the maximum repetitions) and 10 minutes of high-intensity (80% of the maximum repetitions) resistance exercises will be applied in the presence of a physiotherapist. resistance exercises; shoulder flexors and abductors, elbow flexors and extensors, hip flexors and extensors, knee flexors and extensors, hip abductor muscle group will be performed. At the end of each session, 5 minutes of stretching exercises will also be applied.

Treatment:

Other: green exercise with aerobic exercise

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The exercise program will not be implemented. Evaluations will be made at the beginning and end of the study.