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Exercise-related Post-exertional Malaise

NCT03331419 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2017-11-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This pilot study is intended to identify sex differences in myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) during recovery from brief but high effort exercise tests. It is expected that women with ME/CFS as compared to males with ME/CFS will show slower recovery from exercise with respect to heart rate and blood pressure, physical functioning, and symptom severity. Also females with ME/CFS as compared to males with ME/CFS will show greater negative impacts on heart rate, blood pressure, physical functioning and symptom severity after the two exercise tests. The findings will have implications for sex differences in the pathophysiology of post-exertional malaise and activity/exercise self-management recommendations, given the expected detrimental effects of the brief intense exercise tests on patients with ME/CFS.

Conditions

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise test

30 sec of knee squats followed by a six minute walk test repeated on consecutive days.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Fred Friedberg, PhD · Stony Brook University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-30
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2018-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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