NCT Number: NCT02903225
Controlled exercise training is a valuable therapeutic addition to pharmacological treatment in most patients with chronic heart failure, reducing long-term mortality, preventing cardiac remodeling and improving functional capacity. Despite the mechanism underlying its benefits might be multifactorial, a sustained improvement in autonomic balance is usually attributed as a major effect. Nevertheless, not all eligible subjects show the same response to exercise, probably due to several differences in the subpopulations enrolled. The investigators hypothesize that some Heart Rate Variability indexes could be valid tools to optimize the selection and follow-up of chronic heart failure patients to training
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All sexes
Interventional
Phase 4
Forty subjects followed in a University Heart Failure Management Program were prospectively included. All patients were evaluated before the randomization and after 24 weeks from enrollment. The investigators performed a detailed anamnesis and complete physical examination, Doppler echocardiography, Stress Testing, 6-minute walk test, heart rate variability analysis, and quality of life test. Patients were randomized either to a training group: performing a supervised training program, or a control group receiving usual care. All patients received an optimal pharmacologic treatment including diuretics, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers and beta-adrenergic blocking agents. All patients included in the training group attended a supervised program 3-days/week during 24 weeks (68-74 sessions). Physical aerobic training appears to impart beneficial changes in autonomic control of patients with chronic heart failure through both parasympathetic and sympathetic control of hear rate. These effects produce changes in several Heart Rate Variability indices as HF and rMSSD related with parasympathetic tone.
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
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Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
All patients included in this group attended a supervised exercise training program. A cardiologist supervised the hole training sessions. Blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen saturation, and body weight were measured in each session. The modified Borg scale was used to measure the perceived exercise intensity
Other names: Exercise training, Educational approach
Time frame: 6 month
Change in New York Heart Association Functional Class; Number of hospitalizations 6 months before and after the date of enrollment; temporary or permanent withdrawal from the study protocol (due to persistent atrial or ventricular arrhythmias; worsening of congestive heart failure symptoms; myocardial infarction; unstable angina; need of cardiac interventions: pacemaker, implantable cardioverter defibrillator, coronary revascularization or cardiac transplantation; stroke or transient ischemic attack; severe peripheral intermittent claudication or death observed during training or follow-up sessions
Time frame: 6 month
the mean value of the12-min Electrocardiogram-recordings was considered the resting heart rate (beats per minute)
Time frame: 6 month
walking along a 20-meter long corridor at their own pace, with the aim of covering as much ground as possible in 6 minutes. The distance walked was expressed in meter
Time frame: one year
The area-length method was measured to obtain biplane left ventricle volumes. Left Ventricle ejection fraction was derived from the standard equation (%)
Time frame: 6 month
All the subjects completed the Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36), available in its Spanish version, for measuring physical and mental quality of life
Time frame: 6 month
symptom limited exercise testing, measured in metabolic unit (MET)
Time frame: 6 month
short-term continuous electrocardiographic recordings were performed for heart rate variability analysis. In the time domain, the square root of the mean squared successive differences of R-R intervals (rMSSD) were calculated. Units: ms
Time frame: 6 month
The high-frequency (HF), from 0.15 to 0.40 Hz of the power spectral analysis were calculated. Units: ms2/Hz
Universidad de la Republica
Other
Acronym: REINCA
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