UK Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
- Conditions
- Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
- Registration Number
- NCT05441839
- Lead Sponsor
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Brief Summary
Heart failure occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump blood around the body properly. It can cause breathlessness, swollen feet and ankles, and tiredness. In about half of patients with heart failure, one measure of the heart's pumping function, called the 'ejection fraction', is normal. This type of heart failure is called heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF.
HFpEF remains poorly understood. It is not clear why some people develop HFpEF, or what determines the severity of the condition. Treatment options may be limited.
UK HFpEF is a study that aims to gain a better understanding of why people develop HFpEF, develop better tests to diagnosis it, identify and test new treatments, and follow the health of the people taking part over many years.
- Detailed Description
Approximately half of patients with heart failure have a normal, or preserved, left ventricular ejection fraction (HFpEF) (Owen et al, 2006). Rather than being a single diagnosis, it has become clear that HFpEF represents a heterogeneous syndrome involving a range of pathophysiological mechanisms, clinical factors and outcomes (Lewis et al, 2017). However, to-date, HFpEF has generally been considered as a single disease entity. Several high profile phase III trials in HFpEF have shown potentially impressive efficacy in some subgroups of patients, but failed to prove significance over entire cohorts (Pitt et al, 2014) (Solomon et al, 2019). This is likely due to the 'one-size-fits-all' approach taken, with insufficient stratification of the various underlying disease mechanisms.
The large and rapidly growing burden that HFpEF places on our healthcare systems mean there is a pressing need to better understand HFpEF and improve the management of patients with it. The recurrent lack of benefit of the one-size-fits-all approach mandates a new, personalised approach.
The UK HFpEF registry will be a key platform for collaborative UK clinical and translational HFpEF research. The aim is that multiple centres will collaborate and contribute patients such that the registry will provide deep phenotyping, linked to outcomes, in, ultimately, many thousands of patients. This will enable, for example, machine learning techniques to be applied at scale in order to reclassify HFpEF more powerfully. It will provide a platform for the development of diagnostics specific to the different HFpEF subgroups, and for more effective trials that will target groups of patients in whom new, repurposed or previously discarded treatments are expected to be effective. Moreover, it will provide cohorts of patients readily available for recruitment, with linkage in place for outcomes. It could be used to leverage commercial funding and participation, facilitated by simplified, single-point access for industry. It will enable scaled investigation aimed at understanding causes of HFpEF, improving risk stratification and providing better care.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 10000
- Written informed consent
- Diagnosis of HFpEF by a cardiologist with HF expertise, or a primary care physician with HF expertise, or a heart failure nurse
- Natriuretic peptide levels measured
- LV EF < 40% (at screening or any previous measurement)
- Known infiltrative cardiomyopathy (e.g., amyloid, sarcoid, lymphoma, endomyocardial fibrosis)
- Known active myocarditis, constrictive pericarditis, or cardiac tamponade
- Known genetic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Known arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
- Known severe primary valvular heart disease
- Known idiopathic, heritable or drug-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Heart transplantation or ventricular assist device
- Complex congenital heart disease
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Identification of distinct subgroups of HFpEF 10 years Identify distinct subgroups of HFpEF based on disease mechanisms, clinical factors and outcomes
Improve understanding of the causes of HFpEF 10 years Improve the understanding of the cause of HFpEF to provide the basis for developing and evaluating new therapies and diagnostics
Improve risk stratification of HFpEF 10 years Identify and improve risk stratification models for HFpEF patients
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (26)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
🇬🇧Abercynon, United Kingdom
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
🇬🇧Aylesbury, United Kingdom
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Birmingham, United Kingdom
Broomfield Hospital
🇬🇧Chelmsford, United Kingdom
NHS Tayside
🇬🇧Dundee, United Kingdom
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
🇬🇧Glasgow, United Kingdom
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Ipswich, United Kingdom
Kettering General Hospital
🇬🇧Kettering, United Kingdom
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
🇬🇧Leeds, United Kingdom
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Leicester, United Kingdom
Barnet Hospital
🇬🇧London, United Kingdom
Guys and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧London, United Kingdom
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
🇬🇧London, United Kingdom
The James Cook University Hospital
🇬🇧Middlesborough, United Kingdom
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Norwich, United Kingdom
George Eliot Hospital
🇬🇧Nuneaton, United Kingdom
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Peterborough, United Kingdom
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Poole, United Kingdom
Betsi Cadwaldr University Health Board
🇬🇧Rhyl, United Kingdom
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Salisbury, United Kingdom
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Sheffield, United Kingdom
University Hospital of North Tees
🇬🇧Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom
South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
🇬🇧Sunderland, United Kingdom
Southend University Hospital
🇬🇧Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Manchester University NHS Foundation trust
🇬🇧Manchester, United Kingdom