NCT04267471

Tai Chi for Patients With Essential Hypertension

Tai Chi for Patients With Essential Hypertension: Study Protocol of an Open-label Single-center Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 234 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Several studies investigating Tai Chi for hypertension have been carried out. However, investigators found the results were in high heterogeneity and poor methodological quality. Thus, investigators intend to provide high quality of the effectiveness and safety of Tai Chi for essential hypertension.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tai Chi	Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise, which combines deep-breath relaxation and gentle movements in sequence with meditation. Each session of Tai Chi will last 60 minutes, including a 10-minute warm-up, a 40-minute Tai Chi practice and a 10-minute cool-down.
BEHAVIORAL	Walking	Each session of walking will last 60 minutes, including a 10-minute warm-up, a 40-minute walking and a 10-minutes cool-down.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-09-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2020-02-12
• Last updated: 2020-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China