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Clinical Trials/ACTRN12608000511336
ACTRN12608000511336
Completed
N/A

A study to compare respiratory muscle strength in healthy sedentary 20 to 89 year olds

niversidade Federal de Sao Carlos0 sites140 target enrollmentOctober 1, 2008

Overview

Phase
N/A
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Respiratory muscle strength in healthy sedentary 20 to 89 year olds
Sponsor
niversidade Federal de Sao Carlos
Enrollment
140
Status
Completed
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
October 1, 2008
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Observational
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Clinically healthy and sedentary individuals. To classify the volunteers as sedentary was applied the Baecke questionnaire for epidemiological studies. The questionnaire included four questions about sport activities, eight about occupational activities and four about habitual leisure habits. According to the sum of scores of the questionnaire, the volunteers were classified as sedentary.
  • The volunteers should have a body mass index (BMI) between 18\.5 to 24\.9Kg/m2 and 25\.0 to 29\.9Kg/m2 in accordance with the World Health Organization classifications for eutrophics and overweight, respectively.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Smokers or former smokers; cardiovascular, respiratory, skeletal muscle or neuromuscular pathologies; cognitive deficits or difficulty in understanding maneuvers; sleep dyspnea, cyanosis, thoracic structural alterations, and infections in general in the previous six months.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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