NCT00628277

Methods of Weight Loss in Overweight Coronary Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Vermont · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

We hypothesize that a combination of high-caloric expenditure exercise and behavioral weight loss counseling would lead to a greater loss of fat mass and a greater improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors that standard (lower caloric expenditure) cardiac rehabilitation exercise plus counseling.

Detailed description

We hypothesize that a combination of high-caloric expenditure exercise and behavioral weight loss counseling would lead to a greater loss of fat mass and a greater improvement in cardiometabolic risk factors that standard (lower caloric expenditure) cardiac rehabilitation exercise plus counseling. The study population consists of overweight (BMI \>27) patients with established coronary heart disease. The exercise and counseling program was of 4 months duration with extended follow up at 1 year.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	high caloric expenditure exercise	high caloric expenditure exercise plus dietary counseling
BEHAVIORAL	low caloric expenditure exercise plus dietary counseling	low caloric expenditure exercise plus dietary counseling

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-10-01
• Primary completion: 2007-07-01
• Completion: 2007-07-01
• First posted: 2008-03-05
• Last updated: 2008-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States