The Effects of Inorganic Nitrite on cardiac and skeletal muscle: Physiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutic Potential in patients suffering from chronic heart failure.
- Conditions
- Chronic heart failureTherapeutic area: Diseases [C] - Cardiovascular Diseases [C14]
- Registration Number
- EUCTR2012-000788-26-GB
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 56
Patients who suffer from symptomatic but stable chronic heart failure despite maximal tolerated contemporary medication, of non-ischaemic aetiology, in sinus rhythm, will be recruited into the study.
Are the trial subjects under 18? no
Number of subjects for this age range: 0
F.1.2 Adults (18-64 years) yes
F.1.2.1 Number of subjects for this age range 56
F.1.3 Elderly (>=65 years) yes
F.1.3.1 Number of subjects for this age range 56
Patients will be excluded if: - they have been hospitalised for decompensated heart failure within the past three months - they have contra-indications for undergoing MRI
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional clinical trial of medicinal product
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Main Objective: The primary outcome is Peak VO2O2 consumption/workload relation during submaximal exercise.;Secondary Objective: The secondary outcomes are the energy status of the heart by MRI, six-minute hall walk distance, plasma BNP, tissue Doppler E/EM,a Minessota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire, the effects of fibre type, metabolic enzyme expression/activity and proteomic changes at baseline and after treatment respectively.;Primary end point(s): Peak VO2O2 consumption/workload relation during submaximal exercise.;Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point: At baseline and after three months of treatment.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary end point(s): Cardiac energetic status by MRI, six minute hall walk distance, a Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire, plasma N-terminal-BNP, Tissue Doppler E/Em (measure of LV diastolic pressure), the effects on fibre type, metabolic enzyme expression/activity and proteomic changes at baseline and after treatment respectively.;Timepoint(s) of evaluation of this end point: At baseline and after three months of treatment.