NCT03626792

Effect of Mat Pilates Training on Women After Menopause

Effect of Mat Pilates Training on Climacteric Symptoms and Physiological Changes in Women After Menopause

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Uberlandia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 40 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project aims to verify the chronic effect of Mat Pilates exercise on climacteric symptoms, ambulatory blood pressure responses, lipid and glucose profile and pro and anti-inflammatory and antioxidant markers in postmenopausal normotensive and hypertensive women. All volunteers received the same intervention.

Detailed description

The Pilates program was performed three times a week for 12 weeks. Initially a familiarization was made regarding the principles of the method. All volunteers underwent 24-hour blood pressure assessment using ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) and venous blood samples were collected from fasting, saliva and questionnaires before and after the Pilates training period.

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Blood Pressure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Hypertensive group	Pilates 12-week training on the ground, often 3 times a week for 50 minutes of prescribed method exercises.
OTHER	Normotensive group	Pilates 12-week training on the ground, often 3 times a week for 50 minutes of prescribed method exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-05
• Primary completion: 2017-12-20
• Completion: 2018-03-28
• First posted: 2018-08-13
• Last updated: 2022-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil