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.
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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Pilates 12-week training on the ground, often 3 times a week for 50 minutes of prescribed method exercises.
Pilates 12-week training on the ground, often 3 times a week for 50 minutes of prescribed method exercises.
Jaqueline Pontes Batista
Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Blood pressure
Resting diastolic and systolic blood pressures will be monitored by Microlife® BP 3BT0A automatic monitor in mmHg.
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring will be monitored during 24 hours using a Dyna+ ABPM device in mmHg.
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Kupperman - Blatt Index
The climacteric symptoms will be evaluated by the following questionnaire Kupperman - Blatt Index. The questionnaire has scores that from 0 to 19 indicate mild symptoms, 20 to 35 moderate and greater than 35 symptoms of severe climacteric.
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Cervical Scale
The climacteric symptoms will be evaluated by the following questionnaire Cervical Scale. The questionnaire does not have scales. Indicates only a high or low score regarding the presence of climacteric symptoms.
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Menopause Rating Scale (MRS)
The climacteric symptoms will be evaluated by the following questionnaire Menopause Rating Scale (MRS). The scores from 0 to 4 of the questionnaire indicate absence of symptoms, as well as from 5 to 8 presence of mild symptoms, 9 to 15 moderate and greater than 16 symptoms of severe climacteric.
Time frame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Sleep quality
Sleep quality will be assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).A score of 0 to 4 indicates a good quality of sleep, 5 to 10 quality of bad sleep and greater than 10 the presence of sleep disorder.
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Time frame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks