Status:
COMPLETED
ESCAP: Supervised Exercise for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease in the Primary Care Setting
Lead Sponsor:
Basque Health Service
Collaborating Sponsors:
Preventive Services and Health Promotion Research Network
Castilla-La Mancha Health Service
Conditions:
Coronary Heart Disease
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-79 years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
In Spain, family physician are currently recommended to prescribe an unsupervised walking program to their coronary heart disease (CHD) patients as a part of their cardiac rehabilitation program. Howe...
Detailed Description
In order to obtain the maximal health benefits, CHD patients have to attain an exercise intensity between 60 and 85% of the maximal or symptom-limited heart rate (HR). This is not currently attained b...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Coronary heart disease low risk patients
- Under 80 years old
Exclusion
- 80 years of age and over
- Patients included in cardiac rehabilitation programs
- Moderate and high risk patients
- Patients with handicaps for exercising
- Patients unable to attend the supervised exercise sessions
- Unstable angina
- Uncontrolled atrial ventricular arrhythmias
- Third degree AV block (without pacemaker)
- Uncompensated congestive heart failure
- Severe aortic stenosis
- Suspected or known dissecting aneurysm
- Active myocarditis or pericarditis
- Thrombophlebitis
- Recent embolism
- Acute systemic illness or fever
- Significant emotional distress (psychosis)
- Orthostatic blood pressure drop of \>20 mm Hg with symptoms
- Uncontrolled sinus tachycardia
- Resting ST segment displacement (\>2 mm)
- Uncontrolled diabetes (resting blood glucose \>400 mg/dl)
- Other metabolic problems such as acute thyroiditis, hypo or hyperkalemia, hypovolemia, etc.
- Resting SBP\>200 mm Hg or resting DBP\>110 mm Hg
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
97 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00146315
Start Date
January 1 2005
End Date
June 1 2010
Last Update
June 1 2011
Active Locations (2)
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1
Primary Care Research Unit of Bizkaia (Basque Health Service)
Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain, 48014
2
Santa Barbara primary care center (Castilla La Mancha Health Service)
Toledo, Toledo, Spain, 45007