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Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients with Acute Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (REHAB-HFpEF)
Recruiting
The purpose of this research study is to assess the effect of a physical rehabilitation program for people admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of heart failure. After completing baseline tests, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two study groups. Randomization means that you are put into a group by chance. (It is like flipping a coin.) You will have an equal chance of being placed into either group. Participants are assigned to a rehabilitation intervention (treatment) group, or to the attention control group, that will receive usual care.
Male or Female
18 years and over
Inclusion Criteria:
• at least 60 years old
• in the hospital for at least 24 hours to treat acute heart failure
• heart failure episode included symptoms getting worse and the need to add or increase drugs to treat it
• able to walk 4 meters (13 feet) with or without a cane or walker when the study starts
• discharge to an independent living situation
Exclusion Criteria:
• acute heart attack in the past 3 months, or planned intervention in the next 6 months
• severe valve disease
• advanced kidney disease with dialysis planned in the next 6 months
• dementia
• already actively exercising at least 30 minutes at a time, twice a week for the past 6 weeks
Behavioral: Rehabilitation Intervention
Heart & Vascular
Clinics and Surgery Center (CSC), congestive heart failure, exercise program, Heart failure, rehabilitation