relationship of epicardial adipose tissue thickness with post exercise cardiac output
Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2011/10/002051
- Lead Sponsor
- department of physiotherapy manipal college of allied health sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Inclusion Criteria
sedentary individuals with body mass index more than 24.9kg/m2
Exclusion Criteria
individuals with known cardiopulmonary impairments and those who are on regular medications
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method echocardiographic measurement of epicardial adipose tissue thickness and resting and post exercise cardiac output (submaximal exercise test using balke protocol)Timepoint: baseline and within one minute after stopping exercise
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. submaximal ejection fraction <br/ ><br>2.heart rate recoveryTimepoint: submaximal ejection fraction measured within 1 minute of stopping the exercise test. <br/ ><br>heart rate recovery at the time of stopping exercise test,and at 1st, 3rd, 5th minute thereafter.