Status:

COMPLETED

EXercise InTervention in Heart Failure

Lead Sponsor:

Centro Hospitalar do Porto

Collaborating Sponsors:

Universidade do Porto

Aveiro University

Conditions:

Heart Failure

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This is a pragmatic, non-inferiority clinical trial, enrolling heart failure patients who will be randomized to a 12-week exercise training program either centre-based or home-based with telemonitorin...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Diagnosis of HFrEF and HFpEF according to criteria of the European Society of Cardiology (2016)
  • Clinical stability for ≥ 6 weeks
  • Optimal medical treatment for ≥ 6 weeks
  • Patients that are able to understand and follow the exercise prescription
  • Written informed consent

Exclusion

  • Patients who have undertaken cardiac rehabilitation within the past 12 months
  • Patients who have received an intracardiac defibrillator (ICD), Cardiac 3. Resynchronisation therapy (CRT) or combined CRT/ICD device implanted in the last 6 weeks
  • Inability to exercise or conditions that may interfere with exercise intervention
  • Signs of ischemia during cardiopulmonary exercise test
  • Comorbidity that may influence one-year prognosis
  • Symptomatic and/or exercise induced cardiac arrhythmia or conduction disturbances
  • Currently pregnant or intend to become pregnant in the next year
  • Expectation of receiving a cardiac transplant in the next 6 months
  • Participation in another clinical trial
  • Patients who are unable to understand the study information or unable to complete the outcome questionnaires

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 30 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

120 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04334603

Start Date

November 1 2019

End Date

December 30 2022

Last Update

February 23 2023

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Centro Hospitalar do Porto

Porto, Portugal, 4099-001