Exercise, Oxidative Stress and HIV

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00950937

06067

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare oxidative stress markers and the immunologic characteristics of HIV-infected and non-HIV subjects during a bout of moderate aerobic exercise followed by resistance exercises

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HIV Group:without contraindications for exercise training; to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for at least 6 months before enrollment; be classified as low level of physical activity by international physical activity questionnaire (IPAQ) and did not use antioxidant supplements.
• Control Group:negative result for HIV-1 test and the other criteria described above

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with previous history of cardiovascular and neurological disease, diabetes, dyslipidemia, tobacco using, physical disability and pregnant women were excluded from the study.

Trial design

28 participants in 2 patient groups

HIV Group

Description:

HIV infected persons

Control Group

Description:

Non HIV-infected persons