Yoga effects on cardiovascular health in patients with acute heart attack
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Acute Myocardial InfarctionHealth Condition 2: I219- Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/03/012801
- Lead Sponsor
- Centre for Chronic Disease Control New Delhi
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1. Patients with acute myocardial infarction within duration of one month. Myocardial infarction as confirmed by standard definition (symptoms, Troponin and electrocardiographic changes). Those who have undergone a revascularisation procedure during previous or current admission will also be eligible. Patients referred from other hospitals and admitted in the clinical site for diagnostic or therapeutic reasons within 7 days of the acute myocardial infarction are also eligible for participation.
2. Patients willing and able to attend the complete hospital-based Yoga Cardiac Rehabilitation programme.
Patients will be considered ineligible if they have any of the following during screening
1. Patients who will not be able to complete the study duration and/or cannot come for the follow-up.
2. Participants who regularly practice yoga i.e., participants who practice more than 3 hours of yoga a week.
3. Any other diseases which limits the life years less than one year such as severe valvular diseases, recurrent ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure (Killip class IV), cancers, severe aortic incompetence, severe atrial fibrillation, end stage renal diseases and end stage liver diseases.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in endothelial functionTimepoint: Three months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Changes in arterial stiffness, oxidative stress and inflammationTimepoint: Three months