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Interactions of Medicine and Exercise With Meal Timing

Optimizing Exercise Training Effects on Metabolic Syndrome Factors by Altering the Timing of Medication and Meal Ingestion

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04477590
Acronym
MMET
Enrollment
160
Registered
2020-07-20
Start date
2022-06-07
Completion date
2024-12-30
Last updated
2023-08-25

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Angiotensin-Converting-Enzyme Inhibitor, Angiotensin Hypertension, Exercise Training, Fasting, Intermittent, Metabolic Syndrome, Protection Against, Metformin, Statins

Keywords

Cardiorespiratory fitness, Insulin sensitivity, Dyslipidemia, Hypertension

Brief summary

To analyze the effects of altering the time of ingestion of participants' habitual medication (i.e., metformin, statins, ARAII/IACE) and meals around the time of exercise training (exercise fasted or fed) on the improvement of metabolic syndrome factors (hypertension, insulin sensitivity, dyslipidemia, and obesity). There will be a preliminary study of the effects of training time-of-day on the primary study outcomes.

Detailed description

Objective: The purpose is to study in a group of adults with metabolic syndrome and obesity, the effects of altering timing between exercise training, meals, and their habitual medication on the improvement in the factors that compose the metabolic syndrome (i.e., hypertension, insulin resistance, central obesity, and dyslipidemia). The main objective is to find the most productive combination between exercise training and the timing of their habitual pharmacological treatment, and meal ingestion for lowering those factors. Methods and design: Cross-over randomized double-blinded, pretest-posttest control group experimental design. The project will be developed in a single center with the collaboration of the regional public health system (SECAM). There will be a preliminary study of the effects of training time-of-day on three parallel groups of individuals. Subjects: Will be referred by their primary care physicians to our study unit or recruited by advertisements in local media. Up to 180 subjects, all of them with metabolic syndrome will be recruited (\>25% women). Measurements: Specifically, we will study if the cardiovascular and metabolic adaptations to aerobic training that result in amelioration of metabolic syndrome factors are potentiated by correct timming of training, meals, and medicine around exercise training time.

Interventions

DRUGEXERCISE TRAINING WITH OR WITHOUT MEDICATION

A group will train 30 min after taking their habitual dose of medicine (MEDICATED train) while another group will train after taking a placebo (NON-MEDICATED train) and will receive their medication after training.

Sponsors

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha
CollaboratorUNKNOWN
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Investigator)

Masking description

Habitual medicine will be embedded in bigger capsules along with a placebo to be able to randomly allocate medicine/placebo. The first meal in the morning will be also masked by either providing a non-caloric or caloric vanilla-flavored beverage resulting in the fed/fasted condition in a blinded fashion.

Intervention model description

Cross-over randomized, pretest-posttest control group experimental design.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Metabolic syndrome patients diagnosed according to The International diabetes federation consensus of 2009 (Alberti, et al., Circulation).

Exclusion criteria

* Cardiovascular disease or musculo-skeletal that prevents them from being able to perform intense exercise. * Respiratory failure * Liver o renal disease * Pregnancy

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Insulin sensitivity assessed using intravenous glucose tolerance test12 monthsCurves of insulin-mediated glucose clearance, inhibition of lipolysis, and liver glucose output measured with the use of stable isotope infusion.
Post-prandial lipemia assessed by an oral fat tolerance test12 monthsRates of appearance and clearance of liver VLDL-TG, Apolipoprotein B, and fatty acids using stable isotopes.
Blood pressure assessed by ECG-gated automated sphygmomanometer12 monthsDetermined immediately after treatments and during the following 24-h using ambulatory blood pressure Holter-type monitors.
Glycemic control assessed by 24-h continuous interstitial glucose monitoring36 monthsDetermined by a patch glucose sensor paired with a glucose monitor.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Maximal rate of fat oxidation assessed by indirect calorimetry during a submaximal exercise test.12 monthsCalculated in grams per min during the incremental cycle ergometer test with the use of indirect calorimetry system
Body composition.12 monthsDetermined by bioelectrical impedance to calculate body fat mass and fat free mass.
The activity of intramuscular proteins (enzymes) involved in energetics assessed using western blots.36 monthsMeasured in skeletal muscle obtained by percutaneous muscle biopsy.
24-hour monitoring of blood concentrations of metformin, statins, and angiotensin blockers assessed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.36 monthsTo study the pharmacokinetics of the habitual medicines used by our subjects during the different experimental conditions
Body mass index12 monthsDetermined by body weight (kg) and height (m) to calculate body mass index (kg/m2)
Maximal oxygen consumption during a graded exercise test to exhaustion, assessed by indirect calorimetry12 monthsCalculation of cardiorespitarory fitness
Resting metabolic rate assessed by indirect calorimetry while lying after an overnight fast12 monthsUsing indirect calorimetry and a ventilated canopy system

Countries

Spain

Contacts

Primary ContactRicardo Mora-Rodriguez, PhD
ricardo.mora@uclm.es925268800
Backup ContactJuan F Ortega, MD, PhD
juanfernando.ortega@uclm.es925268800

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026