Loaded Breathing Training in Essential Hypertension

Khon Kaen University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Essential Hypertension

Treatments: Device: ULB , LB

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00791986

KKU-475090015-0

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding load to slow controlled breathing training could enhance blood pressure lowering in patients with essential hypertension.

Full description

Hypertension (HT) is one of the major risk of cardiovascular diseases and cost of pharmacological treatment is a very high. Lifestyle modification is the first trial in stage 1 hypertension before commencing pharmacological treatment and a co-treatment with drug in hypertensive patient. Slow paced breathing training and physical training has been shown to reduce both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in HT. Moreover loaded breathing was reported to be able to decrease blood pressure in healthy. Loaded slow breathing training may enhance the antihypertensive effect of slow paced breathing.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of essential hypertension stage I-II

Exclusion criteria

• Respiratory disease
• Diabetes mellitus
• Heart disease
• Renal disease
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Dyslipidemia
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 3 patient groups

control

No Intervention group

Description:

The patients in this control group do not conduct any breathing training.

ULB

Experimental group

Description:

The patients conduct controlled slow breathing training using the WPTB device without inspiratory resistance.

Treatment:

Device: ULB , LB

LB

Experimental group

Description:

The patients breath in against resistance using WPTB device.

Treatment:

Device: ULB , LB