Long Term Physical Training in Asthma

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

24 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

1996-04-30

Study Completion Date

1998-03-31

Brief Summary

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This controlled study is undertaken to investigate the effects of a long term outpatient training program on physical fitness and quality of life in elderly asthmatics.

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Detailed Description

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Physical training is well known to support a healthy lifestyle. Patients with asthma are often unnecessarily restricted of physical activities or avoid exercise due to the unpleasant experience of exercise-induced dyspnea. As a consequence both children and adults with asthma are less fit than their peers. Like in healthy individuals, regular training supports health in asthmatics. In short-term training programs improvements of physical capabilities have been achieved in children and young adults with asthma. Programs of longer durations than 3 months have not been published in controlled trials. Effects of exercise training on quality of life in adult asthmatics are lacking.

Conditions

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Asthma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Exercise training

Subjects participate in a once weekly supervised exercise training group, duration of 60 min.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Exercise training

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Exercise training in outpatient sport groups once weekly with a duration of 60 min each

Control

Control group receives no intervention

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Exercise training

Exercise training in outpatient sport groups once weekly with a duration of 60 min each

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* physician diagnosed asthma
* non-smoker
* stable condition
* informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* participation in pulmonary rehabilitation in the past 12 months prior to study inclusion
* unability to attend training sessions on a regular basis for one year
* symptomatic coronary heart disease
* uncontrolled heart failure
* hemodynamically relevant cardiac rhythm disorders
* hemodynamically relevant cardiac valvular disorders
* uncontrolled arterial hypertension
* hypercapnic respiratory failure
* severe hypoxemia (i.e. PaO2 \<50 mm Hg resp. SaO2 \<80% at rest)
* history of decompensated right heart failure
* pulmonary arterial hypertension (PA mean pressure at rest \>20 mm Hg)
* severe osteoporosis
* severe airway obstruction (FEV1 \<50% predicted, FEV1 \<60% predicted following bronchodilatation)
* maximum work rate of less than 50 watt during ergometer testing
* uncontrolled asthma
* COPD exacerbation
* severe adipositas (BMI \>35 kg/m2)

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No