What this means
Researchers plan to compare warm-water exercise, land exercise, and no exercise in 60 older adults with high blood pressure. The study has not reported results yet, so it cannot yet show which approach works better.
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- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 60 and over · 60 older adults with high blood pressure, planned, not yet reported
- Where
- 1 site
The science
- Registered title
- Effect of Heated Water-Based Versus Land-Based Exercise Training on Hemodynamic Variables, Functional Capacity and Quality of Life in Older Hypertensive
- Trial ID
- NCT07131748 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Hypertension, Aging, Exercise
- What is tested
- Physical Exercise Session in heated Swimming Pool - HEx, Physical Exercise Session in Land- LEx, Control Session Without Exercise- CON
- Sponsor
- Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
- Ages
- 60 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Aug 20, 2025 · updated Aug 20, 2025
Registry summary
BACKGROUND: Physical exercise promotion is one of the main global goals of innumerous health and medical societies for preventing and managing noncommunicable chronic diseases (NCDs), being one of the main therapeutic for the patient with hypertension. Exercise in heated swimming pool has emerged as a potential alternative to physical exercise on the ground for the reduction of blood pressure (BP) of hypertensive patients, however, its effects on BP, as well as hemodynamic, metabolic, inflammatory and functional variables of older individuals with hypertension have not been investigated.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the effects of heated water-based exercise (HEx) versus land-based exercise (LEx) on BP, arterial stiffness, endothelial function, metabolic, inflammatory and functional variables of older individuals with hypertension.
METHODS: 60 older individuals (male and female) with hypertension (age > 60 years) will be randomized in 2:2:1 ratio to HEx, LEx or control (CON) intervention. The feasibility and physiological adaptations (physical capacity, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular responses to stress, biological and biochemical markers associated with the pathophysiology of the disease and vascular adaptations) will be assessed before, after 12 weeks and after 24 weeks of follow-up. HEx and LEx training programs will be performed three times per week and will be performed for the firs 12 weeks of follow-up.
Sites (1)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil