Pilot Interventional Study Assessing the Effect ofInspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) on Casual Blood PressureAmong Older Adults in Urban Mysore, India - NI

Fogarty International Center - National Institutes of Health (NIH)0 个研究点目标入组 0 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2024年8月19日

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•Participants must be 60 years or older, having hypertension, residing in urban Mysore district/Mysore city for six or more months with no plans to shift residence during the next 14 weeks, having a systolic BP level ?140 mm Hg; and able to give informed consent and complete all study procedures including a medical examination, assessment of their respiratory muscle strength, and an interviewer-administered survey. Hypertension will be diagnosed if, when measured twice on different days, systolic blood pressure on both readings is =140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure on both readings is =90 mmHg.

•Having a cognitive disability that makes them unable to perform the IMST training; reported history of uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias; circulatory shock; acute ischemic heart disease; acute respiratory failure; neuromuscular disease or myopathies; or diaphragmatic paresis or paralysis, ear problems, hospitalization in the prior past three months, any hospitalization for respiratory illness in the last 6 months, having loose teeth/dentures or other oral health issues, any history of smoking in the last ten years and having any condition that might pose a risk for undergoing study procedures including inspiratory pressure testing.

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Fogarty International Center - National Institutes of Health (NIH)