NCT00791986

Loaded Breathing Training in Essential Hypertension

Effects of Loaded Breathing Training on Blood Pressure in Essential Hypertensive Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Khon Kaen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding load to slow controlled breathing training could enhance blood pressure lowering in patients with essential hypertension.

Detailed description

Hypertension (HT) is one of the major risk of cardiovascular diseases and cost of pharmacological treatment is a very high. Lifestyle modification is the first trial in stage 1 hypertension before commencing pharmacological treatment and a co-treatment with drug in hypertensive patient. Slow paced breathing training and physical training has been shown to reduce both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in HT. Moreover loaded breathing was reported to be able to decrease blood pressure in healthy. Loaded slow breathing training may enhance the antihypertensive effect of slow paced breathing.

Conditions

• Essential Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ULB , LB	ULB: The patients breath in slowly without resistance via the water pressure threshold breathing (WPTB) device, 30 min/day, 7 days/week for 8 weeks. LB : The patients breath in slowly against resistance of 20 cmH2O provided by the water pressure threshold breathing (WPTB) device, 30 min/day, 7 days/week for 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-05-01
• Primary completion: 2007-12-01
• Completion: 2008-12-01
• First posted: 2008-11-17
• Last updated: 2018-03-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Thailand