Respiratory Muscle Endurance Training in Obese Patients

Fondation Edith Seltzer

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: Respiratory muscle training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01026155

Respob

Details and patient eligibility

About

Obese patients are known to have increased work of breathing inducing dyspnea, exercise intolerance and impaired quality of life. Respiratory muscle training is known to increase respiratory muscle capacity, reduce dyspnoea and improve exercise performance in healthy subjects and respiratory patients. The investigators hypothesized that Respiratory muscle training would reduce dyspnoea, increase exercise tolerance and quality of life in obese patients.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Obese patients (BMI > 30 kg/m2), without respiratory pathology (VEMS > 80% predicted, VEMS/CV > 80%)
• men or women
• age between 18 and 60 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Respiratory, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal diseases
• Alcoholism

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Respiratory muscle traininig

Experimental group

Description:

Low caloric diet and physical activities + Respiratory muscle endurance training by means of isocapnic voluntary hyperpnoea

Treatment:

Other: Respiratory muscle training

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Low caloric diet and physical activities

Treatment:

Other: Respiratory muscle training