Postprandial Walking in Obese Pregnant Women and Perinatal Outcomes - a Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial

Professor Fernando Figueira Integral Medicine Institute

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Gestational Diabetes; Preeclampsia; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Postprandial walks

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02180152

Caminhadas2014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to verify if postprandial walks are effective in obese pregnant women, as regards to gestational weight gain and typical diseases of that period, as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. Perinatal outcomes will be observed, such as macrosomia, shoulder dystocia and fetal death.

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 40 years;
• Gestational age ≤ 20 weeks, calculated from the last menstrual period and confirmed by the first ultrasound scan;
• Obesity - body mass index ( BMI ) ≥ 30 kg/m2, based on the weight before pregnancy, reported by pregnant women no more than 5 kg below measured at admission to the study;
• Physically inactive - according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAC);
• Single pregnancy.

Exclusion criteria

• Kidney disease or collagen;
• Previous history of GDM;
• Diabetes type 1 or type 2;
• Hypertensive disorders related to pregnancy;
• Hemodynamic instability;
• Vaginal bleeding;
• Visual, auditory or cognitive impairment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Postprandial walk

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Postprandial walks

sedentary pregnant women

No Intervention group