NCT03266510

Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training to Improve Blood Pressure and Physiological Function

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Douglas Seals · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of inspiratory muscle strength training for lowering blood pressure and improving physiological function (vascular, motor, and cognitive) in middle-aged and older adults with elevated systolic blood pressure.

Detailed description

Over, the proposed research project has the long-term potential to influence clinical practice by establishing a novel lifestyle intervention for treating multiple domains of age- and hypertension-associated physiological dysfunction and thereby reducing the risk of clinical disease and disability.

Conditions

• Hypertension
• Prehypertension
• Aging

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Inspiratory muscle strength training	Subjects will perform inspiratory muscle strength training for 6 weeks.
OTHER	Sham training	Subjects will perform sham training for 6 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-25
• Primary completion: 2020-04-14
• Completion: 2020-10-30
• First posted: 2017-08-30
• Last updated: 2021-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States