Exercise Dose and Metformin for Vascular Health in Adults With Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic Syndrome
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Metabolic Syndrome
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female >40 and <70 years old.
- Has a body mass index >27 and <47 kg/m2.
- Not diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
- Not currently engaged in > 60 min/wk of exercise
- Meet at least 3 of 5 National Cholesterol Education Adult Treatment Panel III
Metabolic Syndrome criteria:
- Increased waist circumference (≥102 cm in men; ≥88 cm in women)
- Elevated triglycerides (≥150 mg/dl), or on medication for treating the condition
- Reduced HDL-cholesterol (<40mg/dl in men, <50 mg/dl in women), or on medication for treating the condition
- High blood pressure (≥130 mmHg systolic or ≥85mmHg diastolic), or on medication for treating the condition
- Elevated fasting glucose (≥100 mg/dl), or on medication for treating the condition
Exclusion Criteria:
- Morbidly obese patients (BMI >47 kg/m2) and overweight/lean patients (BMI <27 kg/m2)
- Evidence of type 1 diabetes and diabetics requiring insulin therapy.
- Subjects who have not been weight stable (>2 kg weight change in past 3 months)
- Subjects who have been recently active (>30 min of moderate/high intensity exercise, 2 times/week).
- Subjects who are smokers or who have quit smoking <5 years ago
- Subjects prescribed metformin or have taken metformin within 1 year.
- Subjects with abnormal estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).
- Hypertriglyceridemic (>400 mg/dl) and hypercholesterolemic (>260 mg/dl) subjects
- Hypertensive (>160/100 mmHg)
- Subjects currently taking medications that affect heart rate and rhythm (i.e. Ca++ channel blockers, nitrates, alpha- or beta-blockers).
- Subjects with a history of significant metabolic, cardiac, congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular, hematological, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, liver, renal, or endocrine disease or cancer that in the investigator's opinion would interfere with or alter the outcome measures, or impact subject safety.
- Pregnant (as evidenced by positive pregnancy test) or nursing women
- Subjects with contraindications to participation in an exercise training program
- Currently taking active weight suppression medication (e.g. phentermine,orlistat, lorcaserin, naltrexone-bupropion in combination, liraglutide, benzephetamine, diethylpropion, phendimetrazine)
- Known hypersensitivity to perflutren (contained in Definity)
Sites / Locations
- University of VirginiaRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Placebo Comparator
Placebo Comparator
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
LoEx+placebo
HiEx+placebo
LoEx+metformin
HiEx+metformin
Subjects will participate in 3 supervised training sessions and 2 unsupervised training sessions and receive placebo.
Subjects will participate in 3 supervised training sessions and 2 unsupervised training sessions and receive placebo.
If subjects are assigned to this group they will participate in the same LoEx exercise program as outlined above. But, here they will be provided metformin. Metformin is a common medication routinely used to treat high blood sugar and has secondary effects on vascular health. Subjects will not be able to find out if you are on metformin until the study is done. If their doctor needs to know, the people doing this study can find out.
If subjects are assigned to this group you will participate in the same HiEx exercise program and receive metformin as outlined above.