Effects of Exercise in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Aged 80 Years or Older

Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease

Treatments: Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02025257

462-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of exercise for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) aged 80 years and older, with special reference to maximum aerobic capacity, muscle endurance, physical functioning, level of physical activity, health related quality of life, anxiety, depression and endothelial function, compared to a control group.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 80+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of acute coronary artery disease
• Aged 80 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to understand or speak the Swedish language
• Serious physical or psychological disease interfering with participation in an exercise intervention
• Patients are already exercising three times or more/week

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Individually prescribed hospital based exercise in group two times a week, home-based exercise once a week. The exercise intervention consists of interval based aerobic exercise on a bicycle ergometer 30 minutes with intensity level at 13-17 at Borg scale, resistance exercises and balance exercises

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients are asked to live as usual.