NCT01580319

Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Childhood and Adolescence: the Role of Physical Activity

Outpatient Strategy of Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Childhood and Adolescence: the Role of Physical Activity

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research project is about a physical activity intervention in pediatric outpatients to try control and prevent heart diseases such as hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol.

Detailed description

Control Group: receive information about health lifestyle Interventional Group: receive a structured plan with exercises to do 3 times per week within 50 minutes. It is a randomized clinical trial and population are children and adolescents.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Hypercholesterolemia
• High Blood Pressure
• Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	physical exercise	150 minutes per week

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2012-04-19
• Last updated: 2012-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil