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Effect of Exercise on Heart Function in Healthy Elderly People

NCT00804518 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2016-07-18

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of aerobic interval training on left- and right ventricular diastolic- and systolic function on healthy, sedate people over 70 years. The old sedate cohort will be compared to young, sedate subjects also performing aerobic interval training and old master athletes without intervention.

Conditions

  • Diastolic Dysfunction

Interventions

OTHER

Aerobic interval training

High intensity aerobic interval training consists of 10 minutes warm up at \~60% of maximal heart rate, 4x4 minutes intervals at 90-95 % of maximal heart rate corresponding to 85-90% of VO2max) walking/running uphill on a treadmill, with three minutes active pause between the exercise bouts at 60-70% maximal heart rate. The session is terminated with 3 minutes cool down. Total exercise time is 38 minutes.The training is supervised by an exercise physiologist and the subjects train 3 times per week for 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Charlotte Bjork Ingul, PhD · National Taiwan Normal University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-08-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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