NCT03090529

The Role of Exercise Training in the Treatment of Resistant Hypertension

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aveiro University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main purpose of this study is to assess whether exercise training reduces ambulatory blood pressure in patients with resistant hypertension. To accomplish these goals 60 patients with resistant hypertension will be recruited and randomized into exercise training or control groups and followed up for 6 months. The patients in the exercise group will participate in a 3-month outpatient program. The control group will receive usual medical care. At baseline, after the intervention and 3 months after the end of the intervention both groups will undergo several evaluations, including casual and ambulatory blood pressure, body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, quality of life, arterial stiffness, autonomic function, and endothelial and inflammatory biomarkers.

Conditions

• Resistant Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise Group	The 12-week exercise-training program will include three sessions of aerobic exercise per week

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-30
• Primary completion: 2019-12-30
• Completion: 2020-03-30
• First posted: 2017-03-24
• Last updated: 2020-12-17

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Portugal