NCT03730935

Respiratory Muscle Endurance Training in Healthy Elderly

Effects of Respiratory Muscle Endurance Training on Blood Pressure, Exercise Performance and Sleep Quality in Healthy Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Prevalence of hypertension in the elderly is high. Given that hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease worldwide, safe and efficacious treatment options for this condition are highly desired. Apart from medication, changes in lifestyle are recommended to lower blood pressure, such as an increase in physical exercise. However, whole-body exercise is not feasible for all. Mobility disabilities, for example, increase sharply with age and are already common in middle age. For this population, it is necessary to have alternative, non-invasive interventions with similar effects on blood pressure. One such intervention might be respiratory muscle endurance training (RMET), but the effects on blood pressure are currently unknown. The primary aim of this project is therefore to investigate the effects of RMET over the course of several weeks on resting blood pressure in healthy elderly. The secondary aim of the project is to evaluate the effects of RMET on uphill exercise performance in healthy active elderly given that elderly experience structural and functional changes of the lungs potentially affecting exercise performance. Finally, since prevalence of subjective sleep complaints is also high in the elderly, the present study will also investigate the effects of RMET on sleep quality.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Respiratory muscle endurance training	Respiratory muscle endurance training performed over the duration of 4 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-12-07
• Primary completion: 2019-05-24
• Completion: 2019-05-24
• First posted: 2018-11-05
• Last updated: 2019-05-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland