The Erlangen Fitness and Prevention Study (EFOPS).

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteopenia; Osteoporosis; Early Postmenopause

Treatments: Procedure: physical exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01177761

OFZ-EFOPS

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study determines the long-term effect of exercise on osteoporotic fracture risk. Since actually no controlled supervised exercise study exceeds the time frame of 4 years, knowledge concerning the long-term effect of exercise on fractures and fracture-risk factors is scarce. Within the Erlanger Fitness and Osteoporosis Study (EFOPS, an ongoing controlled exercise study with currently 16 years of supervised exercise with 45-50 osteopenic, early-postmenopausal women in exercise and sedentary control group each, the investigators therefore focus on overall-fractures, Bone Mineral Density and falls.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 48+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• participants of the EFOPS-study,
• 12 years of exercise training according to the EFOPS-protocol (exercise).

Exclusion criteria

• medication and diseases affecting bone metabolism,
• inflammable diseases,
• cardiovascular diseases,
• start of relevant physical exercise programs beside the EFOPS protocol.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise

Active Comparator group

Description:

endurance,balance, power, resistance type exercise

Treatment:

Procedure: physical exercise

sedentary control

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects were instructed to do not relevantly change their lifestyle