Effects of Exercise Training on Fluid Instability in Heart Failure Patients

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

Heart Failure (HF) is a significant healthcare concern in the US, with a 120% rise in mortality rates over 15 years costing the country an estimated $37.2 billion in 2009. Veterans are currently impacted at a rate of 5.2%, and cost an average of $14,959/individual/year for those utilizing the VA's Healthcare services. Research has shown that exercise training (ET) improves aerobic capacity, endothelial dysfunction, quality of life, and the ability to tolerate activity within the overall HF population. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of structured exercise training and specific types of exercise training, walking, bicycling, and resistance training, on the symptom of fluid volume over load or edema in advanced heart failure patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01375673

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

14

Starts

2011-11-01

Expected to finish

2014-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-06-04

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Advanced Heart Failure
• Ability to Walk
• Over 21

You may not qualify if…

• Renal Failure
• Inability to walk
• Physician exclusion

Where it is running

• Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia, SC — Columbia, South Carolina, United States

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