Alzheimer's Disease and Physiological, Cognitive Function and BDNF Levels of Plasma Adaptation After Exercise Training (MARAE)
Alzheimer's Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Alzheimer's Disease focused on measuring endurance training, BDNF analysis, cognitive function, physiological abilities
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Alzheimer's disease patients diagnosed by a consultation memory (DSM- IV)
- Person with at least 60 years
- Person with a score higher than 15 in the Mini Mental State Examination
- No one can achieve the pedaling motion
- People who do not perform regular physical activity on bike
- Nobody has given free and informed consent in writing or obtained from a trusted person or the family environment
- People affiliated to a social security
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient who refused to provide written consent
- Inability to pedal
- Recent myocardial necrosis (less than 3 months)
- Aortic Stenosis
- Uncompensated heart failure
- Unstable angina
- Ventricular arrythmia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Coxarthrosis, knee, ankle osteoarthritis
- Not affiliated to a social security
- Patient already participating in another biomedical research
Sites / Locations
- CHU de Martinique
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Endurance Training
Control group
The first group of 40 people will do endurance training; 20 of them will perform a continuous exercise on cycle ergometer at a power equivalent to 70% of the maximal heart rate, twice a week. The other group will do Interval Training, with a four minute long base and one minute long peak, twice a week. The base workload will be equivalent to an intensity of 60% of the maximal heart rate and the peak will be equivalent to 80% of the maximal heart rate.
20 persons will be in the control group and they will not perform the endurance training. However, they will have 9 therapeutic education meetings.