The Impact of Exercise Training on Functional Capacity in Heart Failure

Clalit Health Services

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01288365

MeirMc K015/2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether exercise training will improve functional capacity in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical heart failure
• Preserved ejection fraction (>50%)
• Stable clinically
• New York Heart Association Class II-III

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to exercise
• Other debilitating or unstable disease limiting length of life
• Implanted pacemaker

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise training

Experimental group

Description:

Protocol of 3 month exercise training program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise training

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group