Effect of 3 Years of Exercise in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Atrial Fibrillation

Treatments: Behavioral: Control; Behavioral: Moderate exercise; Behavioral: Interval exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01673139

2012/978b

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a substudy of "Generation 100". The investigators will follow the persons with atrial fibrillation to see if 3 years of interval or moderate exercise affects the burden of atrial fibrillation, symptoms, use of health services or echocardiographic findings.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Included in the "Generation 100 study"
• Atrial fibrillation diagnosis verified by ECG

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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51 participants in 3 patient groups

Moderate exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Moderate exercise

Treatment:

Behavioral: Moderate exercise

Control

Experimental group

Description:

Control group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control

Interval exercise

Experimental group

Description:

interval exercise

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interval exercise