Relationship of Epicardial Adiposity With Sedentary Time, Physical Activity and Performance in Hypertensives

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: EPICARDIAL ADIPOSIS TISSUE AND PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05890989

KMU-TUNCSUYGUN-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Epicardial adipose tissue is associated with the development of cardiovascular disease and its increase is positively correlated with blood pressure elevation in hypertensive individuals. In the literature, being physically active has been shown to be effective in the treatment of hypertension and reduction of epicardial adipose tissue thickness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and sedentary time, physical activity level and physical performance in patients with hypertension. The study included 40 patients with hypertension. The physical and demographic characteristics of the participants were collected using a sociodemographic form. Waist/hip circumference was measured with tape measure and epicardial adipose tissue thickness with echocardiography device. Physical activity levels and sedentary time were recorded via IPAQ-7. Physical performance was determined using the 30-s sit-and-stand test. There is no previous study in the literature evaluating the relationship between epicardial adipose tissue thickness and sedentary time and physical activity levels in hypertensive patients. With this study, we aim to contribute to the literature by filling this deficiency.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study
• Being diagnosed with hypertension for at least 6 months
• Speaking Turkish
• to be able to read and write,
• To be between 18-65 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Severe valvular disease
• be heart failure
• being cardiomyopathy
• having chronic kidney disease
• being thyroid diseases
• active infectious or inflammatory diseases
• serious psychiatric illnesses such as panic disorder or major depression

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

INCREASED EPICARDIAL ADIPOSIS TISSUE

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: EPICARDIAL ADIPOSIS TISSUE AND PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT