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Exercise Intolerance in Elderly Patients With Diastolic Heart Failure

NCT00959660 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2019-02-15

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of weight loss via hypocaloric diet, aerobic exercise training, combined hypocaloric diet and exercise training, and attention control in patients with heart failure and a normal ejection fraction (HFNEF) and body mass index greater than or equal to 30.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

walking, treadmill and bicycle exercise

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Dietary Intervention

Subjects will be provided meals and instructions for individual food selections.

BEHAVIORAL

Diet and exercise

Subjects will be provided meals and instructions for individual food selections and will undergo walking, treadmill and bicycle exercise.

OTHER

Attention Control

control group- continue their previously randomized life style

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Wake Forest University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dalane W Kitzman, MD · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-08-15
Completion
2013-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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