Clinical trial NCT03626792: Effect of Mat Pilates Training on Women After Menopause
Official title: Effect of Mat Pilates Training on Climacteric Symptoms and Physiological Changes in Women After Menopause
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physical Activity
Blood Pressure
Keywords: Pilates
Blood Pressure
Postmenopausal women
Lead sponsor: Federal University of Uberlandia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-08-13
Enrollment: 50
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: * Group 1 - Hypertensive: Composed of hypertensive women who participated in a training program with Pilates exercises in the soil associated to the daily antihypertensive of each one.
* Group 2 - Normotensives: Composed of normotensive women who participated in a training program with solo Pilates exercises without antihypertensive presence.

Both groups underwent 12 weeks of Pilates training.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Women between the ages of 40 and 70;
* Be post menopausal (amenorrhea for at least 12 months);
* Medical release to perform physical activities.
* Do not present physical problems or cardiovascular complications that prevent the performance of physical exercises;

Exclusion Criteria:

* To present a history of stroke or acute myocardial infarction;
* Smoking;
* Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus.
* Present renal pathologies.
* Use medications that interfere with lipid metabolism;
* Use of antihypertensive drugs (except for the hypertensive group);
* Use hormone replacement therapies;
* Present gastrointestinal conditions.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Blood pressure
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
measure: Kupperman - Blatt Index
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
measure: Cervical Scale
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
measure: Menopause Rating Scale (MRS)
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
measure: Sleep quality
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Other outcomes:
measure: Biochemical analyzes
timeFrame: Change from Baseline at 12 weeks
Locations:
city: Uberlândia
country: Brazil
facility: Jaqueline Pontes Batista
state: Minas Gerais
Study officials:
affiliation: Federal University of Uberlandia
name: Guilherme M Puga, Phd
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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