NCT00733161

Effect of Passive Exercise on Systemic Endothelial Function in Elderly Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kyoto University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of passive exercise on systemic endothelial function in elderly patients with chronic heart failure.

Detailed description

Endothelial function is known to be impaired in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and impaired endothelial function has been reported to be associated with an increased mortality risk in those subjects. Although systemic exercise training has been demonstrated to improve endothelial dysfunction in patients with CHF, elderly patients with severely impaired exercise capacity could not engaged in usual exercise training using ordinal ergometer. Those patients are able to join stretching or very light resistance training. On the other hand, passive pedaling using strength ergometer has been reported to be useful in patients with severely impaired exercise capacity, but the safety and the efficacy of passive pedaling on endothelial function in old patients with CHF has not been previously reported.

Conditions

• Congestive Heart Failure
• Endothelium-derived Factors
• Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Passive leg cycle exercise with stretching and resistance training	Passive leg cycle exercise for 15 minutes everyday as well as stretching and resistance training
OTHER	Stretching and resistance training	Stretching and resistance training everyday but no Passive leg cycle exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-08-01
• Primary completion: 2010-03-01
• Completion: 2010-03-01
• First posted: 2008-08-12
• Last updated: 2023-10-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Japan