Lifestyle Changes in Older Adults With Metabolic Syndrome and Tinnitus
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Lifestyle Management.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Tinnitus, Metabolic Syndrome X, Obesity, Elderly. Basic parameters: 65 years — 75 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Effects of Lifestyle Changes on Tinnitus in Older Adults With Metabolic Syndrome
Overview
The problem of tinnitus (subjective type) is prevalent in obese older adults with different diseases such as metabolic syndrome. The changes of lifestyle are very important to lose weight, improve tinnitus and metabolic syndrome
Detailed description
Sixty older adults (with metabolic syndrome with chronic subjective tinnitus) with obesity were selected in a equal random manner to be classified into the first group that administered changes in their lifestyle (exercise applied on treadmill and low caloric diet) for twelve successive weeks and second group that was not administered lifestyle changes
Interventions
- Behavioral Lifestyle Management
patients administered supervised changes in their lifestyle (walking exercise for 40 minutes applied on treadmill for three time per week and low caloric diet) for twelve weeks
Primary outcome measures
- visual analogue scale of tinnitus severity [Time frame: twelve weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (9)
- visual analogue scale of tinnitus related discomfort [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- tinnitus handicap inventory [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- body mass index [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- waist circumference [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- triglycerides [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- high density lipoprotein [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- systolic blood pressure [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- diastolic blood pressure [Time frame: twelve weeks]
- fasting blood glucose [Time frame: twelve weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- obese person (class one obesity)
- patients with metabolic syndrome
- patients with chronic subjective tinnitus (bilateral complaint from more than six months).
- older adults aging 65 years and more
- both sexes will be included
Exclusion criteria
- respiratory insult
- cardiac insult
- liver insult
- kidney insult
- lower limb insult
- neurological insult
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Egypt · 2 centers
- Cairo University — Dokki
- faculty of physical therapy Cairo university — Dokki
Publications
- Ismail AMA, Tolba AMN. Effectiveness of lifestyle-modification approach (a randomized-controlled program of diet restriction and treadmill walking exercise) on elderly's metabolic syndrome-associated subjective tinnitus. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2025 Aug;282(8):4307-4315. doi: 10.1007/s00405-025-09494-7. Epub 2025 Jun 11. PMID 40500514
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06702085 · P.T.REC/012/004623