Active clinical trials for "Heart Failure"

The purpose of this study is to characterize current management of patients with either heart failure or prior myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction and to assess the effect of education, specific clinical guidelines, reminder systems, comprehensive disease state management tools, benchmarked quality reports, and academic detailing on the use of evidence-based heart failure therapies in cardiology practices. This study is a quality improvement initiative that is being conducted through review of patient records.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether extra education of patients with chronic heart failure can reduce 6 months readmission rate to hospital.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a patient-centered disease management intervention for VA patients with heart failure.

To investigate coronary heart disease and stroke among American men of Japanese ancestry who were living on the island of Oahu in 1965. Morbidity and mortality surveillance of the original cohort is continuing.

To examine the genetics of human susceptibility to Chagas' disease, a leading cause of heart disease throughout Latin America.

To provide a comprehensive analysis of risk factors for the development of clinical cardiotoxicities in over 6,000 children with cancer who had been treated on standardized protocols involving the use of anthracyclines alone or in combination with other potentially cardiotoxic therapies or with no use of anthracycline therapy.

To investigate trends in the incidence and survival rates of congestive heart failure (CHF) in two successive cohorts of elderly people (1970-74, 1990-94) in a health maintenance organization (HMO).

The Researchers are doing this study to find out if the cardiac rehabilitation program can improve measurements of frailty and improve independence, functional abilities, and feelings about health. Frailty can be measured by weakness (as measured by hand grip strength), slowness (as measured by walking speed), low level of physical activity, low energy or self-reported exhaustion, and unintentional weight loss.

The association of novel inflammatory biomarkers with cardiovascular diseases is still obscure. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of various inflammatory biomarkers with the existence as well as the extent of heart failure (HF) and coronary artery disease (CAD), suggesting a link between inflammation and cardiovascular diseases and all-cause 30- and -90 day of hospital readmission. Methods: We enrolled a total of 120 patients with HF, asymptomatic CAD and 60 healthy controls (HC) without cardiovascular diseases.

Patients with heart failure (HF) have an amelioration in clinical outcomes during a restricted dietary salt intake. To date, they experienced an amelioration of functional New York Association Heart (NYHA) class, reduction of hospital admissions, and mortality, in a percentage about 60%. However, these data have been not investigated in CRTd patients with HF under a condition of restricted vs. normal dietary salt intake. In the present study authors will evaluate clinical outcomes in patients treated by Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy with a defibrillator (CRT-d) and restricted dietary salt intake (group 1) in addition to conventional heart failure (HF) therapy vs. CRTd patients under conventional dietary salt intake and conventional HF therapy (group 2). The study will be conducted during a 12-months of follow-up, to evaluate the prognosis of CRTd patients treated with restricted (n 271) vs. a matched cohort of CRTd patients treated with normal salt dietary intake in addition to conventional HF therapy (n 288). Authors' opinion is that, restricted salt intake in addition to conventional HF therapy might significantly reduce body weight and heart chambers volumes in CRTd patients, leading to a significant improvement of ejection fraction and of the 6 minutes walking test (6MWT), and to a reduction of the arrhythmic burden. Consequently, restricted salt intake in addition to conventional HF therapy might reduce hospital admissions for heart failure worsening.