NCT02855541

Health Effects of Increasing Muscle Activation While Sitting in Office Workers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Boulder · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Previous research suggests that prolonged sitting increases risk for cardiometabolic diseases and the risk factors associated with cardiometabolic diseases. However, no study to date has examined if a chronic intervention that breaks up prolonged sitting in a real-world environment results in a reduction in the metabolic risk factors associated with cardiometabolic diseases. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine the potential health benefits of breaking up sitting bouts throughout the workday using a small cycling device (DeskCycle) in office workers involved with jobs that require prolonged bouts of sitting. The investigators hypothesize that breaking up sitting will be associated with improvements in cardiometabolic disease risk factors. More specifically, the investigators hypothesize that breaking up sitting will decrease blood glucose during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), increase cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max), decrease blood pressure, decrease body fat, increase HDL cholesterol, and decrease LDL cholesterol, total cholesterol, and triglycerides.

Conditions

• Blood Pressure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	DeskCycle	A small cycling ergometer that can fit under a desk at the workplace.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2016-08-04
• Last updated: 2018-11-13
• Results posted: 2018-11-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States