Sixteen Weeks of Resistance Training in Hypertensive Elderly, Effects on Heart Rate Variability

Federal University of São Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Behavioral: Resistance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03254225

CEP1844640

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the inffluence of 16 weeks of resistance training on heart rate variability of hypertensive elderlies patients. All volunteers will be divided in two groups, one will participate in a protocol of sixteen weeks of resistance training, an the other will remain sedentary.

Full description

This study evaluates the inffluence of 16 weeks of resistance training on heart rate variability using time and frequency-domains by ECG tracks. Will be assessed the blood pressure using the ambulatory blood pressure monitoring method of hypertensive elderly patients. All volunteers will be divided in two groups, one will participate in a protocol of sixteen weeks of resistance training prescribed with a relative workload of 50% of 1 maximal repetition, an the ontrol group will remain sedentary.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hypertensives
• Age 60 to 80 years
• Nonactive

Exclusion criteria

• Orthopedic problems or other problem that prevented the exercises
• Change in drug treatment during protocol
• Absence in more than 25% of the exercise sessions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Resistance training

Experimental group

Description:

Resistance training performed three times at week for 16 weeks, in 8 exercises for the main muscles, the protocol of 3 sets of 10 repetitions with intensity of 50% of 1 maximum repetition (MR).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Resistance training

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

in this arm, the group will remain sedentary for the same period of the experimental group, and they will be invited to engage on the raining program after the sedentary period