Oral Contraceptive and Strength Training

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: oral contraceptive and training; Other: no oral contraceptive and training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03374878

VEK60597

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cross sectional study investigating the effect of strength training in users and non-users of oral contraceptives (OC) (2nd generation OC)

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18.5 - 30 years
• BMI < 30

Exclusion criteria

• Medicine influencing protein turnover
• Surgery on the knee
• Arthritis
• Diabetes
• Smoking
• irregular menstruation (<24 days or >35 days cycles)
• Non-users: not have used contraceptives for the last 3 months.
• Unstable weight (+/- 5 kg within the last 6 months)
• Regular training/exercise more than 2 hours/week for the last 6 months. Maximum 70 km of cycling transport/week.
• Strength training >1time/month for the last 6 months.
• Pregnancy
• Diet og eating disorder
• Can not read or understand danish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

oral contraceptive and training

Experimental group

Description:

Users of oral contraceptive training for 10 weeks

Treatment:

Other: oral contraceptive and training

no oral contraceptive and training

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Non-users of oral contraceptive training for 10 weeks

Treatment:

Other: no oral contraceptive and training