Early Prevention of Childhood Obesity: an Active Pregnancy

Technical University of Madrid

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: A supervised physical exercise program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02109588

Prevention childhood obesity

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main aim of this study was to examine the effect of a supervised physical exercise program on the prevention of childhood obesity and its impact on the motor development of the offspring.

Full description

The environment where the fetus growths up is essential for the risk of developing some diseases in later life, such as obesity. Exercise has showed being useful in the prevention on excessive maternal weight gain which is linked to fetus weight.

Enrollment: 1,100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being healthy and able to exercise following American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) guidelines
• Being able to communicate in spanish
• Giving birth at Hospital Universitario de Torrejón, hospital Universitario de Puerta de Hierro and Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa (Madrid).

Exclusion criteria

• Multiparity
• Obstetrician complications
• Being interested in the study after 16 weeks
• Not being regular in physical exercise program
• Younger than 18 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,100 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Sedentary pregnant women

Exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

Supervised physical conditioning program of three 55-60 minute sessions per week during whole pregnancy (from week 9 to 38). Each session consists of 25-30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise,10 minutes of specific exercises (strength and balance exercises), and 10 minutes of pelvic floor muscles training Aerobic activity was prescribed at light to moderate intensity, aiming for 55-60% of heart rate reserve. All subjects wore a heart rate (HR) monitor (Polar FT7) during the training sessions to ensure that exercise intensity was light to moderate

Treatment:

Behavioral: A supervised physical exercise program