Ultrasound-induced Adipose Tissue Cavitation and Training in Obesity (UATC)

Hasselt University

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Obesity

Treatments

Other: Exercise training intervention without ultrasound induced adipose tissue cavitation

Other: Exercise training intervention with ultrasound induced adipose tissue cavitation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04417816

UATC-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The addition of ultrasound-induced adipose tissue cavitation (UATC) at the level of the abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue may seem relevant as an additive treatment option to exercise intervention in individuals with obesity. However, whether individuals with obesity who participate in an exercise intervention and additionally undergo UATC, are more likely to develop a metabolically healthy phenotype, as opposed to subjects with obesity undergoing exercise training or UATC only, remains to be studied. Therefore, the first aim of this study is to examine the impact of combined UATC during exercise intervention on abdominal subcutaneous and whole-body adipose tissue mass, quality of life and cardiometabolic risk in individuals with abdominal obesity.

Enrollment

28 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

male/female (1:1),
age 18-65 y,
abdominal obesity (waist circumference >102cm or >88cm) -

Exclusion criteria

involvement in dietary or exercise intervention in the last year,
intake of any medication,
clinically diagnosed diseases (cardiovascular disease, hypertension, venous thromboses blood diseases, presence of a pacemaker/defibrillator, brain or nervous system diseases, kidney, thyroid or liver disease, chronic inflammatory diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and epilepsy).
Persons with a pregnancy,
a recent bone injury or the presence of a metal prothese