Exercise-training Before Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease; Angina

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00218985

TRIM 158-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to evaluate the effect of exercise training upon endothelial function in the mammary artery of patients who are scheduled for CABG, as well as study the functional properties of single cells isolated from a small biopsy of the left ventricle obtained during surgery.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled for CABG both with and without heart failure

Exclusion criteria

• Unstable angina
• Unable to walk on a treadmill (except those with heart failure who only will serve as a reference group)
• Participation in another study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise training

physician's advice

No Intervention group

Description:

patients follow their physician's advice in regard to physical activity.