NCT01274078

Effects of Exercise With or Without Blueberries on Cardiovascular Risk Markers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Linkoeping · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

About 32 healthy subjects are subjected to 4 weeks of exercise, 4 weeks of washout and 4 weeks of sedentary life style, randomization decides whether they start with exercise or with being "couch potatoes". All participants are also randomized to also consume 150 g of blueberries on exercise days or not. The exercise is constituted of 5 km running 5 days a week during the 4 week period. The exercise period and the "couch" period are started and ended with a 5 km run at maximal speed and the fasting blood samples for cardiovascular risk factors are measured before and after this run, ie 8 times in total.

Conditions

• Risk Factors Cardiovascular Disease
• Inflammation
• Exercise
• Sedentary Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BIOLOGICAL	Blueberries	150 grams of frozen blueberries on the same day as exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-07-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2011-03-01
• First posted: 2011-01-11
• Last updated: 2012-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden