Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Childhood and Adolescence: the Role of Physical Activity

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Terminated

Conditions: High Blood Pressure; Hypercholesterolemia; Obesity; Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments: Other: physical exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01580319

2994/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research project is about a physical activity intervention in pediatric outpatients to try control and prevent heart diseases such as hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol.

Full description

Control Group: receive information about health lifestyle Interventional Group: receive a structured plan with exercises to do 3 times per week within 50 minutes.

It is a randomized clinical trial and population are children and adolescents.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 6 to 17 years
• obesity
• high cholesterol

Exclusion criteria

• congenital heart diseases
• less than 6 or more than 17 years old

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants do not receive a physical exercise plan. Participants receive a simple orientations about lifestyle activities.

Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive a physical exercise plan to play at home

Treatment:

Other: physical exercise