PTH And Calcium Responses to Exercise (PACE) in Older Adults

Exercise that causes a decline in serum Calcium (Ca) as a result of dermal Ca loss stimulates bone resorption via an increase in Parathyroid Hormone (PTH).

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Osteoporosis
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Treadmill Exercise; Procedure: Magnitude of Ca loss during Exercise at 26 degrees Celcius

Detailed Description

Determine whether the magnitude of dermal Ca loss (i.e., sweating) during exercise is a determinant of the decline in iCa and increases in PTH and carboxy-terminal collagen crosslinks (CTX; marker of bone resorption). The proposed experiment will address this by manipulating the rate of dermal Ca loss (moderate vs high sweating rate) to determine whether this is the trigger for the cascade described in Figure 1. This will be achieved by having participants perform two identical exercise bouts under different thermal conditions (warm vs cool).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 12
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Colorado
    • Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045
      • University of Colorado Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 60 years to 80 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy adults aged 60-80 y

Exclusion Criteria:

• Use of medications in the past 6 months known to affect bone metabolism (e.g., bisphosphonates, thiazide diuretics, oral glucocorticoids)
• BMD t score < -2.5 at the total hip or lumbar spine
• Known disease or condition associated with intestinal malabsorption
• Moderate or severe renal impairment defined as an estimated glomerular filtration rate of <60 mL/min/1.73m2 based on the MDRD equation
• Chronic hepatobiliary disease, defined as liver function tests (AST, ALT) >1.5 times the upper limit of normal; if such values are obtained on initial screening and thought to be transient in nature, repeated testing will be allowed
• Thyroid dysfunction, defined as an ultrasensitive TSH <0.5 or >5.0 mU/L; volunteers with abnormal TSH values will be re-considered for participation in the study after follow-up evaluation by the PCP with initiation or adjustment of thyroid hormone replacement
• Serum calcium <8.5 or >10.3 mg/dL
• Serum 25(OH)D <20 ng/mL; volunteers with abnormal serum 25(OH)D values may be re-considered for participation in the study if serum 25(OH)D is >20 ng/mL after vitamin D supplementation
• Uncontrolled hypertension defined as resting systolic BP >150 mmHg or diastolic BP>90 mmHg; participants who do not meet these criteria at first screening will be re-evaluated, including after follow-up evaluation by the PCP with initiation or adjustment of anti-hypertensive medications
• History of type 1 or type 2 diabetes
• Cardiovascular disease; subjective or objective indicators of ischemic heart disease (e.g., angina, ST segment depression) or serious arrhythmias at rest or during the graded exercise test (GXT) without follow-up evaluation will be cause for exclusion; follow-up evaluation must include diagnostic testing (e.g., stress echocardiogram or thallium stress test) with interpretation by a cardiologist
• Diagnosis or history of asthma

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Treadmill Exercise; 2 (two) 1-hour of vigorous exercise bouts under different thermal conditions, one at 16 degrees C and one at 26 degrees C.	Procedure: Treadmill Exercise; 2 (two) 1-hour of vigorous exercise bouts under different thermal conditions
Experimental: Magnitude of Ca loss during Exercise at 26 degrees Celcius; Blood samples at 15-min intervals starting 15 min before exercise and ending 60 min after exercise.	Procedure: Magnitude of Ca loss during Exercise at 26 degrees Celcius; Blood samples at 15-min intervals starting 15 min before exercise and ending 60 min after exercise

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Change in Parathyroid Hormone (PTH)	PTH will be measured during baseline, throughout exercise, and during recovery at regular intervals. We are looking to see how PTH changes over the course of the exercise and recovery period in both the warm and cool conditions. We anticipate that PTH will be higher in the warm condition versus the cool. We expect that men and women will respond similarly.	60 minutes of exercise and 2 hours of recovery
Change C-Telopeptide (CTX)	CTX will be measured during baseline, throughout exercise, and during recovery at regular intervals. We are looking to see how PTH changes over the course of the exercise and recovery period in both the warm and cool conditions. We anticipate that CTX will be higher during exercise and recovery in the warm condition versus the cool.	60 minutes of exercise and 2 hours of recovery
Change in Serum Ionized Calcium (iCa)	iCa will be measured during baseline, throughout exercise, and during recovery at regular intervals. We are looking to see how PTH changes over the course of the exercise and recovery period in both the warm and cool conditions. We expect that serum iCa will be higher in the cool condition versus the warm.	60 minutes of exercise
Change in Total Ca	Total Ca will be measured during baseline, throughout exercise, and during recovery at regular intervals. We are looking to see how PTH changes over the course of the exercise and recovery period in both the warm and cool conditions.	60 minutes of exercise

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Sarah J Wherry, PhD, University of Colorado, Denver

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: August 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): January 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 2, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 8, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): June 11, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 14, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 12, 2018
• Last Verified: March 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: parathyroid hormone (PTH); bone mineral density (BMD)
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Metabolic Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Bone Diseases; Bone Diseases, Metabolic; Osteoporosis
• Other Study ID Numbers: 15-0250