Status:
COMPLETED
Hypoxia Pre-conditioning and Mountain Sport
Lead Sponsor:
Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine
Collaborating Sponsors:
Istituto Auxologico Italiano
University of Innsbruck
Conditions:
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Eligibility:
All Genders
50-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Mountain sport activities as for example hiking or skiing may involve the risk of adverse health events especially in older people not accustomed to the specific mountain sport at altitude or people w...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Participants will include normally physically active males and females (age 50-70 years; New York Heart Association (NYHA) class I and II) with or without prior myocardial infarction, living \<600 m.
Exclusion
- Persons with CAD will be excluded if they will not be able to perform light to moderate exercise, or had recent myocardial infarction and/or revascularisation (\< 8 weeks prior to inclusion in the study), episode of unstable angina, de-compensated heart failure, life-threatening arrhythmia, ejection fraction \< 50%, known symptomatic aortic outflow obstruction, severe hypertension (\>180/100 mm Hg), pulmonary hypertension or any other severe systemic non-cardiac disease. Exclusion criteria will additionally include regular smoking of more than five cigarettes per day, regular drug intake, habitual residence \> 600 m and one or more overnight stay at \> 1000 m during the previous 4 weeks.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2022
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 31 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
17 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04725539
Start Date
January 1 2022
End Date
October 31 2024
Last Update
August 12 2025
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Eurac Research
Bolzano, BZ, Italy, 39100