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Lead
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
The patients will be randomized in two groups: the intervention group will receive a standardized advice to physical activity practice plus pedometers and step goals to achieve over the next twelve weeks and the control group will receive the same standardized advice to physical activity practice and usual care.
Age
18–65
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
Asthma diagnosis for at least 6 months (according to Global Initiative for Asthma criteria)
Regular drug therapy (inhaled corticosteroids or inhaled corticosteroids plus long-acting beta-agonists)
Clinical stability during the run-in period (3 weeks)
You may not be if
Physical activity practice over once a week
Disabling musculoskeletal disease
Cardiopathy
Other lung disease
More than 10 pack-years of smoking
Pregnancy
Refusal to participate
Clareo Health | Effects of a Pedometer-based Unsupervised Exercise Program Upon Lifestyle Physical Activity of Asthmatic Adults
