Effect of Exercise in OI
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Cardiology, Neurology |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Cardiology / Vascular Diseases, Neurology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - 65 |
| Updated: | 5/27/2013 |
| Start Date: | November 2008 |
| End Date: | November 2014 |
Effects of Exercise in Orthostatic Intolerance
The main limitation patients with orthostatic intolerance (OI, or postural tachycardia
syndrome, POTS) have to exercise is related to their increase in heart rate when standing.
Main pharmacological treatment today is aimed at reducing heart rate with the use of
betablockers (propanolol), this theoretically could also improve their exercise capacity; if
their heart rate do not increase as much with the medication, they could exercise more. In
addition, it has been suggested that in healthy volunteers subjected to head down tilt for 2
weeks (situation that produces a "simulated" transient POTS-like state) a single bout of
intense exercise can improve orthostatic tolerance the day after exercising. The mechanisms
involved in such response are not that clear but could be an increase in plasma volume
already diminished in POTS patients. It seems likely that the same could be true for POTS
patients.
The purpose of the present study are to pharmacologically improve the amount of exercise
POTS patients can perform by reducing their baseline heart rate (specific aim 1) and to
evaluate next day heart responses to an acute bout of intense exercise.
Therefore, the specific aims of this study are:
1. To test the hypothesis that lowering heart rate response with propanolol will result in
an increase in exercise capacity.
2. To test the hypothesis that a single bout of exercise will result in an improvement in
orthostatic tolerance the day after exercising.
- Subjects will be studied twice, once after receiving placebo and in a second occasion
after receiving propanolol.
- An exercise capacity test with estimation of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 max) will
be done within 1 hour of receiving a pill containing placebo and that will be in
appearance identical to the one for propanolol. This test will be conducted on a
stationary bicycle and the effort will be gradually increased while expired air is
measured during exhaustive physical work. The test will last approximately 30 minutes
and be conducted in Vanderbilt's Clinical Trial Center.
- The day before and the day after the exercise test subjects will be asked to collect
urine for 12 hours each time and to keep a record of how much liquid they ingest.
- Posture study tests (measurements of heart rate and blood pressure taken while lying
down and at intervals for up to 30 minutes while standing) will be done the day before
and the day after the exercise test.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Meet diagnostic criteria of POTS (Raj, et al., 2005)
- Age between 18-65 years
- Male and female are eligible (although the majority of patients POTS are female).
- Able and willing to provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of medical conditions that can explain postural tachycardia (e.g.,
dehydration, medications)
- Pregnancy
- Other factors which in the investigator's opinion would prevent the subject from
completing the protocol.
- Patients who are bedridden or chair-ridden.
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Nashville, Tennessee 37232
Nashville, Tennessee 37232
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