Evaluation of the effects of dark chocolate with 70% cocoa on cardiovascular health in patients with heart failure
- Conditions
- Heart FailureC14.280.434
- Registration Number
- RBR-59xfk3
- Lead Sponsor
- Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Cardiovasculares
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Sedentary men or women between the ages of 40 and 80;Body mass index (BMI) above 18.5 kg / m 2 for both sexes;Stage 1, 2 and 3 ICC according to the NYHA classification criteria, (1994)
In use of any dietary supplement you have in your formulation Antioxidant nutrient and chocolate;Creatinine clearance less than 60 mL / min; Smokers or former smokers (less than two years of Smoking);Liver and / or pancreatic disease;Unstable angina pectoris;
Allergy to chocolate or its derivatives;Patients with stage 4 heart failure according to the criterion of NYHA classification (1994); Physical examination with presence of edema;Presence of infectious, autoimmune or immunosuppressive disease; Presence of cardiac cachexia;Presence of hypoalbuminemia;Use of pacemaker;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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