Dry Eye Response to Interval Exercise and Mediterranean Diet

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Physical Inactivity; Dry Eye; Diet Habit

Treatments: Behavioral: lifestyle change; Other: exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05248698

P.T.REC/012/003553

Details and patient eligibility

About

in the recent times, dry eye was found to be correlated sedentary life style, obesity, hypertension. So, changing the sedentary lifestyle is recommended

Full description

older patient who will complain from dry eye will be collected. it is planned to recruit 60 elderly (with obesity and hypertension) to be distributed into group 1 (this group will receive 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity, plus Mediterranean Diet) and group 2 (this group will receive only 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity). Every group will contain 30 elderly

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elderly patients with dry eye complaints
• the patients will be obese and hypertensives

Exclusion criteria

• heart or respiration problems
• other diagnosed eye or systemic diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

group 1

Experimental group

Description:

30 older patient who will complain from dry eye will receive 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity, plus Mediterranean Diet for 6 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: lifestyle change

group 2

Active Comparator group

Description:

30 older patient who will complain from dry eye will receive 3-time interval exercise per the week, applied for 30 min with high intensity, for 6 months

Treatment:

Other: exercise