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Regular exercise, such as brisk walking, has been shown to lower levels of indicators of inflammation in the blood in people with long term conditions. This includes people with heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes. Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is an inflammatory condition with prescribed medication focusing on reducing inflammation. However, the effect of exercise on indicators of inflammation in axSpA is unknown. The research study intends to investigate whether a 12-week period of regular exercise can have favourable effects on inflammatory markers in the blood.


Clinical Trial Description

Over 200,000 people in the UK have axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). In 80% of cases the condition begins between 20-30 years of age. Exercise is encouraged as an essential treatment of axSpA, with the potential to promote well-being, flexibility, posture and pain management. Axial spondyloarthritis is an inflammatory arthritis and raised levels of indicators can be detected in the blood (e.g C-reactive protein). These markers are released as a consequence of the condition, but some, such as TNF-alpha, also promote further disease development. In other patient groups with inflammatory diseases it has been demonstrated that regular exercise (brisk walking) can lower the levels of pro-inflammatory blood markers and increase levels of anti-inflammatory markers, independent of weight loss. Despite axSpA being an inflammatory condition with prescribed medication focused on reducing inflammation, there are no studies which have assessed the potential of exercise as an anti-inflammatory treatment in axSpA. This research study will investigate the effect of 12 weeks of a home-based walking exercise intervention on measures of systemic inflammation and body composition. Measures of well-being and disease activity will also be investigated using established and validated methods. There will be an exercise and control group, both containing 10 participants. In the control group, patients will carry on with their normal activity. This proof-of-concept study will determine the potential of exercise as an additional anti-inflammatory treatment for patients with axSpA. ;


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NCT number NCT04368494
Study type Interventional
Source Loughborough University
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date October 1, 2021
Completion date December 10, 2022

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