NCT01219231

Effects of Physical Activity on the Brain in Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT)

Exercise in Elderly Individuals With Impaired Glucose Tolerance: Beneficial for Vasculature and Neurons?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The researchers will investigate whether exercise could provide positive effects on general brain functions in elderly people with impaired glucose tolerance.

Detailed description

The age-related degradation of cognitive functions even to the point of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease are a growing public-health concern with devastating effects. Referring to animal data, empirical studies, and pilot human trials, exercise should improve cognitive functions such as learning and memory. To test this hypothesis, the researchers study general brain functions in elderly subjects (50-80 years old) with impaired glucose tolerance during a short term exercise program.

Conditions

• Impaired Glucose Tolerance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise	6 months of aerobic exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-08-01
• Primary completion: 2015-01-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2010-10-13
• Last updated: 2016-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany