NMES in HF Patients to Improve Functional Recovery Following Hospitalization

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

In brief

The goal of this research study is to understand whether an at-home exercise program started after hospitalization for HFpEF, and continuing for 4 weeks following discharge from the hospital, can preserve or improve physical function.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05338437

Run by

University of Vermont Medical Center

People needed

8

Starts

2022-02-07

Expected to finish

2023-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-10

Who can join

Age: 50 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 50-90 years of age
• clinical diagnosis of HF being actively managed during hospitalization
• live within 30 miles of the medical center
• able to perform informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory/autoimmune disease
• cancer, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer or low-grade prostate cancer
• severe dementia/alzheimer's disease
• exercise limiting peripheral vascular disease
• neuromuscular disease or neuromuscular dysfunction associated with cerebrovascular event
• body mass index ≥40 kg/m2
• lower extremity blood clot or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or pacemaker

Where it is running

• University of Vermont Medical Center — Burlington, Vermont, United States

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