Clinical trials: Athletes Heart
Heart Rate Control, Athlete
HRV-based Training Effects in Athletes
Monitoring individual responses to training is an important key factor to prescribe to most effective training programs. Heart-rate variability (HRV) could be used for monitoring the training status of endurance athletes in order…
- Conditions
- Heart Rate Control, Athlete, Emotions
- Trial name
- HRV-btA (NCT04150952)
- Testing
- HRV-based training, TRAD training
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 14 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidad de Almeria
Covid19, Athletes Heart
Effect of CoVid-19 (CoronaVirusDisease-19) and Exercise on Myocardial Fibrosis and Ventricular Arrhythmias
COVID-19 can cause myocarditis, which can cause myocardial fibrosis. This has been shown to increase mortality and morbidity among athletes.
- Conditions
- Covid19, Athletes Heart, Myocarditis Viral, Ventricular Arrythmia
- Trial name
- CoViDEx (NCT04726150)
- Testing
- ILR implantation
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 85 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Antwerp
Athlete's Heart
Echocardiographic Characteristics of High Endurance Israeli Athletes
The purpose of this study is to characterize the cardiac adaptive changes of professional Israeli bicyclists by using echocardiography.
- Trial name
- NCT00634335
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Soroka University Medical Center
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
The Impact of Exercise-Induced Cardiac Remodeling on Myocardial Efficiency
This research study is being conducted to find out how heart function and energy use differ among healthy endurance athletes, individuals who do not exercise regularly, and patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
- Trial name
- NCT04580693
- Testing
- PET Scan
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 87 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Athlete's Heart or Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Contribution of Exercise Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR)
Prospective, nonrandomized, single-center, comparative study to define if right ventricular (RV) contractile reserve assessed by exercise CMR helps to improve the differential diagnosis between pathological and physiological…
- Trial name
- CA2VD (NCT05024708)
- Testing
- Cardiac exercises and tests
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 4 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rennes University Hospital
Oxidative Stress, Athletes Heart
The Effects of Dark Chocolate Implementation in Elite Athletes
Dark chocolate (DC) is rich in epicatechin which augments nitric oxide (NO) production through endothelium-dependent influences.
- Conditions
- Oxidative Stress, Athletes Heart, Physical Activity
- Trial name
- NCT03288623
- Testing
- Dark Chocolate (85% cocoa), White/Milk chocolate (<35% cocoa)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- University of Roma La Sapienza
Heart Disease
Cardiac Screening of Middle Aged and Older Women and Men (Master Athletes)
In 2010 there was published new European recommendations for assessment of adult and elderly men and women, who want to start with physical activity and/or participate in endurance contests.
- Trial name
- MASTERSCREEN (NCT02923518)
- Testing
- Questionnaire
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 86 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- LHL Helse
Sports Accident, Athletes Heart
Lithuanian Atletes' Aortic Diameter
Recent developments in football have seen the sudden death of young football player due to aortic rupture hence reinforcing the controversy of football as a field with substantial risk for sudden cardiac arrest and death.
- Trial name
- NCT03656861
- Testing
- Physical load
- Volunteers
- 151 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Agne Slapsinskaite
Kinesiophobia (Fear of Movement), Musculoskeletal Injuries
Binaural Beats Stimulation on the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), Kinesiophobia and Fitness Levels in Professional Athletes With Musculoskeletal (MSK) Injuries
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effectiveness of binaural beat stimulation on the autonomic nervous system (ANS), taking into account kinesiophobia related to reinjury and fitness levels in professional…
- Trial name
- ANS MSK HRV (NCT07370636)
- Testing
- Auditory stimulation with binaural beats and guidance, Auditory stimulation without binaural beats, Auditory stimulation with background music
- Volunteers
- 66 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of West Attica
Muscle Soreness, Delayed-onset Muscle Soreness
Effects of ReWin(d) Supplementation on the Recovery of DOMS Induced by Acute Exercice
The study will assess the recovery and performance of young athletes suffering from muscle damage induced by physical exercise. Model by comparing the safety and efficacy of ReWin(d) supplemention during 4 weeks to placebo over…
- Trial name
- NCT03961022
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Natural Origins
Exercise
Ischemic Preconditioning in Endurance Athletes
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of remote ischemic preconditioning on biochemical and functional indices of cardiac function induced by a 30 km run in healthy trained long distance runners.
- Trial name
- NCT01774461
- Testing
- Remote ischemic preconditioning
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 29 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
Ventricular Premature Complexes, Atrial Premature Complexes
Oral Magnesium Supplementation in Athletes With Premature Ventricular Contractions or Premature Atrial Contractions.
Magnesium is a mineral which is essential to many of the processes which happen in the body. This includes normal function of muscles; including the heart.
- Trial name
- NCT04186728
- Testing
- Magnesium glycinate
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Cardiac Function in Young Athletes
Study to Assess the Effect of OXYJUN on Ejection Fraction and Markers of Cardiovascular Injury
Young athletes are usually regarded as a special subgroup of healthy individuals with a unique lifestyle who are apparently invulnerable and often capable of extraordinary physical achievement.
- Trial name
- Enduoxy (NCT02207101)
- Testing
- E-OJ-01 (OXYJUN)
- Where
- India
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Vedic Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.
Nervous System Diseases, Dehydration
Assessment of Heart Rate Variability, Performance and Dehydration in Muay Thai Athletes
Known as "Thai boxing," Muay Thai utilizes a combination of upper limb strikes (such as punches and elbow strikes) as well as lower limb strikes (such as kicks and knee strikes), and is thus referred to as the "art of eight…
- Trial name
- NCT06338501
- Testing
- Specifical Functional Training Exercises
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
Healthy
The North Sea Race Endurance Exercise Study
Competitions such as marathon running and endurance cycling events are increasingly popular and represent an important motivation for sustaining training among leisure-time athletes.
- Trial name
- NEEDED (NCT02166216)
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 1,200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Helse Stavanger HF
Stress, Physiological, Sport Injury
Immediate Effect of Non-invasive Auricular Acupoint Stimulation for the Performance and the Meridian Activities of Archery Athletes
In our hypothesis, auricular acupoint stimulation might improve the attention and heart rate variability in archery athletes. The meridian activities regarding the attention and action in Chinese medicine systems might be…
- Trial name
- NCT04637607
- Testing
- Auricular acupoints stimulation
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 33 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Covid19
Cardiac Assessment After Covid-19 Disease in Elite Altheltic Population
COVID-19 infection coud induce cardiac injuries. Before returning to sport, cardiac evaluation is recommended by sports federations, based on the precautionary principle and the opinion of expert consensus.
- Trial name
- CADE (NCT04653857)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 250 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Montpellier
Coronary Artery Disease
TREAT Study - Improving the Interpretation of Troponin Concentrations Following Exercise and Their Clinical Significance
The goal of this observational study is to learn about cardiac biomarker release following exercise in amateur athletes. The main questions it aims to answer are: Question 1: What are the reference values for exercise-induced…
- Trial name
- TREAT (NCT06295081)
- Testing
- Exercise exposure
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 1,015 people
- Sponsor
- Radboud University Medical Center
Athletes Heart
Changing the Pulse of Athletics: Applying a Standardized Cardiac Athletic Screening for NCAA Athletes
This is a study supported by Duke Sports Cardiology and Duke Sports Medicine with the intent to enhance the cardiovascular screening of collegiate athletes from a regional to nationally recognized program to understand and…
- Trial name
- NCT03150940
- Testing
- ECG, bedside cardiac ultrasound
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Atrial Fibrillation, Stroke
AFLETES-MRI: A Cardiac and Cerebral Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Athletes With Atrial Fibrillation
Participation in exercise improves cardiovascular health. However, long-term endurance exercise may increase the risk of an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF).
- Trial name
- AFLETES-MRI (NCT06424171)
- Testing
- Cardiac and brain magnetic resonance imaging.
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Leicester