Fitness Training in Children

University of Wisconsin (UW)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity; Low Fitness

Treatments: Behavioral: exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00205296

2002-090

Details and patient eligibility

About

We hypothesize that improvement in cardiovascular fitness is associated with a greater improvement in insulin sensitivity than improvement in body composition (loss of body fat) is associated with insulin sensitivity. Towards that we are randomizing children who are overweight, or children with low fitness levels to exercise intervention 2 or three times per week.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• obesity
• low fitness

Exclusion criteria

• diagnosis of diabetes
• inability to exercise

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)