Natriuretic Brain Pro-peptid Changes in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Within a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program

Grupo Rehabilitacion en Salud

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Heart Failure

Treatments

Other: exercise protocol no supervised

Other: controlled, supervised exercise protocol

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT02087670

GrupoRS0002

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate pro-BNP levels, oxygen consumption, functional class, and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure after participating in an exercise program and compare them baseline and 2 months, with another group who underwent an educational program.

Full description

Clinical controlled trial with a double blinded with a aleatory number sequence as the randomization method, patients will be assigned to one of two groups, intervention program (supervises exercise program) and control group (community based exercise)

Enrollment

42 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients older than 18 years, diagnosed with heart failure (NYHA) II-IV for more than six months

Exclusion criteria

patients with NYHA functional class I, who had attended a cardiac rehabilitation program previously, patients with decompensated diabetes mellitus, hypertension difficult to control, ischemic heart disease in the last month, prior pulmonary embolism, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, restrictive lung disease , aortic stenosis, new episode of atrial fibrillation and musculoskeletal diseases that limit the performance of physical activity