NCT01743183

Influence of Respiratory Muscle Training in Elderly Hypertensive Women With Respiratory Muscle Weakness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 60 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength in a group of elderly women with hypertension before and after a respiratory muscle training.

Detailed description

It is a respiratory muscle training using the Threshold for 5 weeks, with a load of 30% of maximal inspiratory pressure obtained in manometer for 30 minutes daily. Furthermore, the assessment includes: test 6-minute walk, the quality of life questionnaire, MINICHAL, the IPAQ short version, manometer and spirometry.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Threshold	The load adjustment was done weekly by a single examiner.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2012-12-06
• Last updated: 2012-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil