Effects of Different Exercises Interventions in Post-menopausal Women

Federal University of Uberlandia

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hypertension; Menopause

Treatments: Other: Moderate intensity continuous training; Other: Control; Other: High intensity interval training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03942276

CEP UFU 07839218.8.0000.5152

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare different exercise training protocols on health parameters of postmenopausal women. The hypothesis is that short duration high intensity interval training will promote different effects of long duration moderate intensity training.

Full description

Exercise load control still not a consensus as to the most effective strategy for improving health parameters in postmenopausal women. In this way, the volunteers will perform anthropometric and body composition assessments, climacteric symptoms and sleep quality evaluations, blood pressure reactivity, resting blood pressure and heart rate and ambulatorial blood pressure monitoring, before and after 12 weeks of training.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being postmenopausal (amenorrhea of at least 12 months and [FSH]> 40 mlU/ml); be controlled hypertension; not to undergo drug treatment with β-blockers; not make use of sex hormone therapies; do not present physical problems or cardiovascular complications that prevent the performance of physical exercises; present attestation of a cardiologist proving that they are able to perform physical exercises.

Exclusion criteria

• Do not attend the collection site on the day and time programmed more than once in the acute phase of the study; missing more than 2 consecutive sessions or 6 alternates in the chronic phase of the study; unable to perform the proposed training protocols; change in drug therapy during the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Control

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Hypertensive post menopausal women, who will do the evaluations before the beginning and after 12 weeks without perform exercise training.

Treatment:

Other: Control

Alternative training

Experimental group

Description:

Hypertensive post menopausal women, who will do the evaluations before the beginning and after 12 weeks of high intensity interval training.

Treatment:

Other: High intensity interval training

Conventional training

Experimental group

Description:

Hypertensive post menopausal women, who will do the evaluations before the beginning and after 12 weeks of moderate intensity continuous training

Treatment:

Other: Moderate intensity continuous training