Resistance and/or Endurance Training, What is Most Effective in Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases?

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: strength training; Behavioral: aerobic exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00986024

460150

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of aerobic interval training versus strength training or a combination of these regimes on factors comprising the metabolic syndrome in order to find the most effective exercise regime for patients with metabolic syndrome.

Full description

In the Western world, approximately 25% of young to middle-aged adults have metabolic syndrome. There seem to be a strong age-dependence in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome, but the incidence rises rapidly within adolescents and middle-aged groups and follows the development of obesity in the general population. Metabolic syndrome confers an increased risk of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, and premature death; therefore, effective and affordable strategies to combat the syndrome would be of great individual and social importance.

Despite the general agreement that moderate-intensity physical activity for a minimum of 30 min five days per week or vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity for a minimum of 20 min three days a week promote and maintain health, the optimal training regime to treat metabolic syndrome and its associated cardiovascular abnormalities remains uncertain.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having metabolic syndrome according to international diabetes foundations definition (IDF).

Exclusion criteria

• Unstable angina pectoris
• Uncompensated heart failure
• Myocardial infarction during the past 4 weeks
• Complex ventricular arrhythmias
• Kidney failure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 3 patient groups

aerobic exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: aerobic exercise

strength training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: strength training

control group

No Intervention group