NCT02135575

Effects of Exercise Training on Cardiovascular Health in Middle-aged Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 45 Years – 57 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The hypothesis of the present study is that physical training can oppose detrimental changes in cardiovascular and metabolic health associated with estrogen loss after menopause.

Conditions

• Menopause
• Cardiac Function Impaired
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Blood Platelet Disorders
• Metabolic Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Spinning	After the baseline studies the pre and postmenopausal women will be randomized to spinning training groups and the intervention will last for 3 months. The spinning group will spin three times per week under guidance of a trained instructor. The training is heart rate monitored.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2014-05-12
• Last updated: 2018-08-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark