Rural HEART Camp Connect: A Feasibility Study

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA · Dec 7, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

At a rural health center in central Nebraska, potential participants will be identified, screened, and approached for participation. Study personnel will obtain informed consent in person in a private room or over the phone facilitated by the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) electronic consent process. Once consented, participants will complete cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to guide individual exercise prescriptions and protect against risks associated with exercise. CPET results that preclude safe exercise training (arrhythmia) or those with CPET results indicating ca...

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction or heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (Stage C, chronic HF confirmed by echocardiography and clinical evaluation)
• • 19 years of age or older
• • Stable pharmacologic therapy per guidelines for preceding 30 days
• • Able to read and understand English.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Clinical evidence of decompensated heart failure
• • Unstable angina
• • Myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass surgery, or biventricular pacemaker less than 6 weeks prior
• • Orthopedic or neuromuscular disorders preventing participating in aerobic exercise
• • Pregnancy
• • Participation in 3 times per week aerobic exercise during the past 6 months
• • Plans to move more than 50 miles from the exercise facility in the next 12 weeks
• • Cardiopulmonary stress test results that preclude safe exercise training (arrhythmia) or cardiorespiratory fitness indicated by females with maximum oxygen consumption ≥ 21ml/kg/min and males with maximum oxygen consumption ≥ 24 ml/kg/min.

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