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Interval Training and Hormones in Chronic Heart Failure

NCT02322034 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2017-08-01

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Summary

The investigators aim at investigating whether 24-week high intensity interval training might exert beneficial effects by modulating neurohormonal axis in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Furthermore, the effect of detraining on neurohormonal axis in CHF patients will be evaluated.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Interval Training

Exercise training protocol (high intensity, interval training) is followed by the enrolled patients on hospital outpatient-based regimen 3 times/week for 24 weeks. The high intensity group will perform interval cycling for 4 minutes with 1-minute rest between intervals. High intensity exercise will be 90-95% peak heart rate. The exercise intensity will be established, and maintained throughout the 24-week exercise training period, by calculating the heart rate range as a percentage of maximum (90-95%) as obtained from the most recent cardiopulmonary exercise test. Every 4 weeks during the training program, the exercise intensity will be titrated to the same relative percentage of maximum (90-95%) as it is assumed most patients will become fitter over the training period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federico II University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carlo Vigorito, MD · Federico II University of Naples

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-01-31
Completion
2019-01-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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