Heart Transplant Patients, Health Status and Physical Activity

Luis Santos

Status

Completed

Conditions

Disease, Chronic

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Diagnostic tests

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05282342

ETICA-ULE-038-2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this cross-sectional observational study is (1) to assess the health status of a group of heart transplant patients and their level of physical activity, (2) and to compare the health status of a group of heart transplant patients with different levels of physical activity, with a group of healthy people classified as sedentary (due to their level of physical activity).

Enrollment

72 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 90 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Heart transplant adults (18 years old) whose transplant had taken place at least twelve months before the study data was taken.
Heart transplant patients with low, moderate and high levels of physical activity, according to the results of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire - Long Form (IPAQ-L).
Healthy people with low levels of physical activity, according to the results of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire - Long Form (IPAQ-L).

Exclusion criteria

Do not meet the eligibility criteria.
Have physical disabilities and/or other limiting pathologies that would condition their level of physical activity.
Have participated in cardiac rehabilitation programs during the twelve months prior to the study.