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Effect of Exercise and Respiratory Muscle Training in patients with Heart Failure and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Heart Failure
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstrutive
Lung Diseases
Registration Number
RBR-8fw6zx6
Lead Sponsor
niversidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Patients between 50 and 85 years of age; of both sexes; who consent to participate by signing the Free and Informed Consent Form (TCLE); have a clinical diagnosis of heart failure (HF) (ventricular ejection fraction left lower than 50%, secondary to ischemic disease or cardiomyopathies), functional class II and III, according to the New York Heart Association Functional Classification for Heart Failure (NYHA), without associated pulmonary disease; having a clinical diagnosis of chronic obstrutive pulmonary disease (COPD), Global Initiative for Chronic Obstrutive Lung Disease (GOLD) II (50-79% predicted FEV1) and III (30-49% predicted FEV1), based on spirometric evaluation; be clinically stable, in the 30 days prior to inclusion in the study; not having participated or being participating in a rehabilitation program in the three months prior to recruitment

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who have an insufficient level of understanding to perform the tests; manifest limitations to perform physical exercise (exacerbation of fatigue, dyspnea on minimal exertion, claudication, unstable angina, uncontrolled arrhythmia); present limiting musculoskeletal diseases; disabling neuropsychiatric diseases; clinical decompensation or recent hospitalization for symptomatic control; coronary event in the last 12 months; aneurysm; patients with a history of spontaneous pneumothorax; history of collapsed lung due to a traumatic injury and that has not completely healed; history of ruptured eardrum that is not completely healed or any other disease in the eardrum; patients with asthma who have frequent attacks; patients who do not adhere to the schedule of activities proposed in the study

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
It is expected that the association of physical training with inspiratory muscle training will be able to improve clinical and functional parameters in patients with heart failure (HF) and chronic obstrutive pulmonary disease (COPD), similarly to what happens in patients with only HF
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
o secondary outcomes expected
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