Aortic Stent Graft Clinical Trial
Official title:
Peak Systolic Blood Pressure in Heart Patients With Aortic Stent-graft During Moderate Intensity Strength Training: A Descriptive Intervention Study
Patients with an aortic stent graft are recommended to do muscle strengthening exercise as
part of their rehabilitation. But, as excess blood pressure pose a risk to the integrity of
the stent graft, high intensity muscle strengthening exercise may potentially be detrimental,
and hence moderate intensity muscle strengthening is recommended. However, the blood pressure
changes during moderate intensity strengthening exercises are unknown, and this study aims to
quantify these among patients and compare them to those of healthy volunteers.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to investigate the increase in blood pressure during quadriceps
muscle strength training in patients with aortic stent graft.
Methods:
Patients with aortic stent graft will be included. The participants are investigated once.
During the investigation, the blood pressure increase during a single strength training
exercise (leg press) is measured. The strength training exercise is done at 60% of maximal
strength (moderate intensity) corresponding to 15 Repitition Maximum (RM) (a load that can be
lifted exactly 15 times).
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