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