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The Impact of a Resistance Training Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in Older Adults With Sarcopenia
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating progressive resistance training for Sarcopenia and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 77 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Current prevention and treatment of high blood pressure (BP) in sarcopenia, by non-pharmacological approaches remain limited and are far from optimal. This randomized control intervention pilot study will provide new evidence of the unexplored relationship between muscle strength and high BP in sarcopenia, and experimentally test the effects of an evidence-based progressive resistance training intervention on BP, while also examining reversibility to identify muscle strength as a non-pharmacological target for BP control in older sarcopenic adults.
Study Details
Timeline
Arms & Interventions
30 Assessment-only control group will be mailed (standard or electronic) NIH/National Institutes on Aging (NIA) Go4Life® educational materials once a month for 3 months. Exercise logs documenting weekly exercise activities, duration, time and effort will be requested to be sent back.
60 Intervention group will receive 12 weeks of supervised resistance training following the American Heart Association and American College of Sports Medicine guidelines for older adults. Exercises will include a mixture of upper-body and lower body strength exercises. Training load will be determined based on initial 1-repetition maximum tests (1-RM). Initial exercise load will start off at low resistance (40-50% 1RM) with more frequent repetitions per exercise, and will gradually increase weight load and intensity over the exercise training period.
Interventions
Individual, tailored, progressive muscle strength and function intervention