Exercise Impact in Elderly With Multimorbidity: HbA1c and Blood Pressure

Universidade do Porto

Status: Completed

Conditions: High Blood Cholesterol; Hypertension; Osteoarthritis; Diabetes; Multimorbidity; Depression Disorders; Obese Patients; Sarcopenia in Elderly; Dyslipidemia; Respiratory Disorders

Treatments: Other: Exercise; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06879639

CEFADE 27_2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of the study is to compare the effect of two different types of physical exercise modalities on glycated hemoglobin and blood pressure in elderly individuals with multimorbidity. The main characteristic of the proposal is that it is experimental, with two intervention groups with physical exercise that will be randomized in the order of participation of the groups and forwarded to the researchers regarding the evaluations and training periods. In addition, the study will be controlled, as it has a control group that will not perform any intervention with physical exercises during the study period. To allocate the participants in each exercise group and for the control group, the researchers will use the 1:1 method, the user will receive an automatic generator through the random.org website.

The main questions raised by the studies will be: Is land-based training more effective than aquatic training for this population in improving the primary outcomes? Is there a difference between training at these intensities and not doing any physical exercise in this population with these primary outcomes?

Participants in the 2 intervention groups will:

Train 3x per week for 10 weeks at intensities that will progress over the weeks.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being elderly adult 60 years old
• Having grade 1 medicated hypertension (systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 and diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90) or having type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Volunteers may have other morbidities such as: anxiety/depression, knee osteoarthritis or obesity
• Be fit for the practice of physical activity

Exclusion criteria

• Being a smoker
• Have severe musculoskeletal problems that prevent you from carrying out physical activities
• Unable to carry out the protocol completely

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 3 patient groups

Combined physical exercise in land

Experimental group

Description:

Combined physical exercise performed in gym 3 times per week

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: Exercise

Combined physical exercise in water

Experimental group

Description:

Combined physical exercise performed in water 3 times per week.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: Exercise

Control Group

Experimental group

Description:

The control group will not performed physical exercise for ten weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Control