About this trial

POWER Health is a randomized clinical trial with a two-arm parallel design whose objectives are 1) to study metabolic flexibility and autonomic function (both capacities that describe cardiovascular health) in a sample of postmenopausal oncological women vs postmenopausal untreated controls (CT); and 2) to analyze the impact of two different 8-week physical exercise supervised interventions: HIIT training vs strength training focused on muscle power, on both cardiovascular capacities in these populations.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Patients diagnosed of relapse free-cancer (RFC) or patients not diagnosed of any cancer at least the last 15 years (CG)

Aged between 35 and 75 years

Diagnostic of breast cancer (i.e., including ductal carcinoma, invasive carcinoma, triple negative; RFC) or physiological menopause (CG)

Not participating in a nutritional/dietary intervention

Disqualifiers

Medical contraindication for being engaged in an exercise.

Additional surgery planned within the intervention

Consuming usually betablocker or any drugs alterning nervous system functioning

History of another primary invasive cancer (RFC) or suffer a serious chronic illness (CG)

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • HIIT program (8 weeks)
  • MPI program (8 weeks)

Treatment groups

56 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Locations

1
Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences46010, ValenciaValencia, Spain

Sponsors and collaborators

University of Valencia

Lead sponsor

Generalitat Valenciana

Collaborator