Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in Childhood and Adolescence: the Role of Physical Activity

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul27 enrolled

Overview

This research project is about a physical activity intervention in pediatric outpatients to try control and prevent heart diseases such as hypertension, obesity, high cholesterol.

Control Group: receive information about health lifestyle Interventional Group: receive a structured plan with exercises to do 3 times per week within 50 minutes. It is a randomized clinical trial and population are children and adolescents.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Obesity Hypercholesterolemia High Blood Pressure Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

physical exerciseOTHER

150 minutes per week

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 17 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 6 to 17 years * obesity * high cholesterol Exclusion Criteria: * congenital heart diseases * less than 6 or more than 17 years old

Locations (1)

Instituto de Cardiologia / Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Reduction on risk factors for a cardiovascular diseases (reduction on BMI, cholesterol, LDL, glucose, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, blood pressure and/or increase on HDL)

These measurement (taken at end of study) are assessed for a external research (blind for randomization) to judge the individual outcome.

Time frame: These measurement were taken at end of followup (27th week)

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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