NCT02589327

Effects of Exercise on Cardiac Fat in Women With Obesity: a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Texas Tech University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Excessive cardiac fat accumulation have been recognized to be associate to increased cardiac and metabolic risk. The aim of this study the effects of exercise in cardiac fat content, cardiac function, physical fitness, and metabolic activity in obesity.

Detailed description

Excessive cardiac fat accumulation have been recognized to be associate to increased cardiac and metabolic risk. More effective treatments are needed to induce changes in cardiac fat content, body composition, and cardiac fat metabolic activity that result in a reduction in cardiovascular risk in overweight and obese population. Despite this need, little is known about which mode, frequency, and duration of exercise will allow for greater reductions in cardiac fat, improvements in body composition, restoration of a healthy cardiac fat metabolic activity, and improvement on cardiovascular risk markers. The aim of this study the effects of exercise in cardiac fat content, cardiac function, physical fitness, and metabolic activity in obesity.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise Intervention	The intervention will consist of 3 weeks of whole body circuit training (resistance training) where participants in the intervention group will perform 7 different exercises. The circuit will consist of 10 repetitions per exercise of 7 exercises: leg press, bent-over row, bench press, squats, dumbbell jump squats with raises, dead-lifts and weighted abdominal crunches, with approximately 30 sec of rest in between each exercise (based on the estimated time needed to move from one position to the next). Each participant will move through the circuit 3 times, with 2 to 3 minutes of rest between each round. Intensity will be 6-7 of RPE at the first set, and 9-10 at the third set.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2015-10-28
• Last updated: 2016-05-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States