Home Bicycle Exercise and Aerobic Capacity

Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Metabolic Cardiovascular Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: bicycle exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02268292

SG12147

Details and patient eligibility

About

The subjects with MetS or type 2 diabetes were enrolled for this exercise-training program. All participators underwent an indoor bicycle exercise for twelve weeks. In addition to demographic data and biochemical tests were determined after an overnight fasting. Extension of muscle strength was detected in the dominant lower extremity.

Full description

This prospective open-labeled study was conducted in Taichung Veterans General Hospital. The adult participants with metabolic syndrome and/or type 2 diabetes were enrolled. MetS. The procedures were fully explained to all subjects before the cardiopulmonary exercise test. ll enrolled subjects received a scheduled twelve-week program for exercise-training program. A commercially available bicycle with an indoor bicycle trainer are used as the home exercise training modality. All medications were not allowed to be changed during the study.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult with metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes

Exclusion criteria

• hyperglycemic crisis or HbA1c > 12%;
• serum creatinine levels greater than 200 mmol/L;
• acute or chronic infectious diseases;
• limitations in the ability to undertake regular exercise

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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37 participants in 1 patient group

Bicycle Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Bicycle Exercise for 12 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: bicycle exercise