Heart FailurePARISNCT01113840
Prospective Aerobic Reconditioning Intervention Study
A study testing Exercise in people with Heart Failure, run by Wake Forest University at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this study is : To determine if aerobic exercise conditioning can improve symptoms, cardiovascular function and quality of life in elderly patients with congestive heart failure. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 60 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Heart Failure
- What is being tested?
- Exercise
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
- How many people
- 201 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Jul 1993to Dec 2009
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 60 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Age greater than or equal to 60 years of age
- Symptoms of congestive heart failure
- Able to understand and give informed consent
Who cannot join
- Age <60 years
- Does not have CHF
- Significant change in cardiac medication <3 weeks
- Myocardial infarction <3 weeks
- CABG surgery <3 months
- Angina pectoris not controlled during daily activity by pharmacological therapy or at <4 METS activity
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- Sustained hypertension with systolic> 190 and diastolic> 110 on medications
- Valvular heart disease as the primary etiology of CHF
- Significant aortic stenosis
- Stroke of <3 months or with any physical restriction impairment that would prevent participation in exercise programs
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on therapy that limits exercise duration
- Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
- Active treatment for cancer or other noncardiovascular conditions with life expectancy less than three years
- Anemia "10 gms Hb)
- Renal insufficiency (cr >2.5 mg/dl)
- Psychiatric disease - uncontrolled major psychoses, depressions, dementia, or personality disorder
- Dementia - MMSE ~24 "22 for ~8th grade education)
- Lack of an acoustic window sufficient to allow definition of endocardial borders on the screening echocardiogram.
- Plans to leave area or be admitted to a nursing home within 2 years.
- Inability to walk at least 420 feet in 6 minutes without a cane or other assistive device.
- Inability to exercise at or near home.
- At the discretion of the clinical staff, it is believed that the participant cannot or will not complete the protocol because of frailty, illness, or other reason.
- Participation in a regular exercise regimen more than one time per week for at least twenty minutes per session; including but not limited to walking, swimming, weight lifting, golfing, or taking an exercise class.
- Inability to ambulate without cane or other assistive device during biomechanics testing or treadmill.
- Inability to attend at least fourteen weeks of the facility-based intervention
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157
About this study
Official title: Exercise Conditioning in Elderly Patients With Heart Failure
The purpose of this study is :
- To determine if aerobic exercise conditioning can improve symptoms, cardiovascular function and quality of life in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
- To describe the baseline clinical characteristics, cardiovascular function and neurohumoral function in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
- To determine the specific cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mechanisms by which symptoms and quality of life may improve following exercise conditioning in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
Read the detailed description
In patients over age 65, cardiovascular disease accounts for the largest percentage of deaths, hospital days, doctor visits, and overall health care expenditures. In addition, heart failure is the most common discharge diagnosis in the elderly. Heart failure can be defined as a state in which cardiac output is insufficient to meet metabolic demands. This is most frequently manifested by symptoms of fatigue and dyspnea. Inherent in this definition is that symptoms may be increased or only occur during times when metabolic demand is increased, such as during exercise. As such, exercise intolerance is a hallmark of the heart failure syndrome. Exercise intolerance correlates not only with disease severity and also with subsequent mortality. Exercise tolerance can be objectively quantified during maximal symptom limited standardized exercise protocols by analysis of exercise time, workload, METS (metabolic equivalents), and oxygen consumption (V02)' These measures have appropriately become accepted as standards for functional assessment in this disorder as well as outcome measures following therapeutic interventions in HF. P.A.R.I.S. is a randomized, attention-controlled, single-blind trial of supervised aerobic exercise training in older patients with heart failure. The primary outcome is exercise capacity and the main secondary outcome is quality of life. Mechanistic outcomes were also examined. In PARIS, which focused on cardiac mechanisms, there were HFPEF and HFREF patients studied in parallel. In PARIS-II, there were only HFPEF patients which focused on vascular mechanisms.
Main outcomes have been reported (see citations below).
- Conditions
- Heart Failure
- Being tested
- Exercise, Control
- Keywords
- elderly, heart failure, exercise, diastolic dysfunction
- Medical subject headings
- Heart Failure, Motor Activity
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
ExerciseBehavioural
Exercise classes three times per week in a controlled, supervised environment.
ControlBehavioural
Control group continues daily life as prior to randomization.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Control | Placebo comparator | Control group continues with their daily activity as they were prior to randomization. Receive bi-weekly follow-up phone calls to assess health status and encourage adherence with protocol. Receives: Behavioral: Control |
| Exercise | Active comparator | Exercise classes three times per week in a controlled, supervised environment. Receives: Behavioral: Exercise |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Peak exercise capacity
Measured: 16 weeks
Secondary outcomes (1)
Quality of life
Measured: 16 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted30 Apr 2010 (estimated)
- Study startJul 1993
- Primary completionDec 2004
- Study completionDec 2009
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (15)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Heart FailureStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Outcomes assessor
- Enrolment
- 201 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Wake Forest University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Dalane W Kitzman, MD, Principal investigator, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT01113840
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- P.A.R.I.S. I and II
- Other IDs
- R01AG012257, R01AG018915
- Acronym
- PARIS
- Status last verified
- Feb 2019
- First submitted
- 29 Apr 2010
- Last updated
- 15 Feb 2019
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
Publications
Kitzman DW, Little WC, Brubaker PH, Anderson RT, Hundley WG, Marburger CT, Brosnihan B, Morgan TM, Stewart KP. Pathophysiological characterization of isolated diastolic heart failure in comparison to systolic heart failure. JAMA. 2002 Nov 6;288(17):2144-50. doi: 10.1001/jama.288.17.2144.
PubMed 12413374Kitzman DW, Brubaker PH, Morgan TM, Stewart KP, Little WC. Exercise training in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial. Circ Heart Fail. 2010 Nov;3(6):659-67. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.110.958785. Epub 2010 Sep 17.
PubMed 20852060Brubaker PH, Moore JB, Stewart KP, Wesley DJ, Kitzman DW. Endurance exercise training in older patients with heart failure: results from a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Nov;57(11):1982-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02499.x.
PubMed 20121952John JM, Haykowsky M, Brubaker P, Stewart K, Kitzman DW. Decreased left ventricular distensibility in response to postural change in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2010 Sep;299(3):H883-9. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00332.2010. Epub 2010 Jun 18.
PubMed 20562334Haykowsky MJ, Brubaker PH, John JM, Stewart KP, Morgan TM, Kitzman DW. Determinants of exercise intolerance in elderly heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jul 12;58(3):265-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.02.055.
PubMed 21737017Haykowsky MJ, Brubaker PH, Stewart KP, Morgan TM, Eggebeen J, Kitzman DW. Effect of endurance training on the determinants of peak exercise oxygen consumption in elderly patients with stable compensated heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jul 10;60(2):120-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.02.055.
PubMed 22766338Moore B, Brubaker PH, Stewart KP, Kitzman DW. VE/VCO2 slope in older heart failure patients with normal versus reduced ejection fraction compared with age-matched healthy controls. J Card Fail. 2007 May;13(4):259-62. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2006.12.005.
PubMed 17517344Maldonado-Martin S, Brubaker PH, Kaminsky LA, Moore JB, Stewart KP, Kitzman DW. The relationship of a 6-min walk to VO(2 peak) and VT in older heart failure patients. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Jun;38(6):1047-53. doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000222830.41735.14.
PubMed 16775543Brubaker PH, Joo KC, Stewart KP, Fray B, Moore B, Kitzman DW. Chronotropic incompetence and its contribution to exercise intolerance in older heart failure patients. J Cardiopulm Rehabil. 2006 Mar-Apr;26(2):86-9. doi: 10.1097/00008483-200603000-00007. No abstract available.
PubMed 16569976Brubaker PH, Marburger CT, Morgan TM, Fray B, Kitzman DW. Exercise responses of elderly patients with diastolic versus systolic heart failure. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2003 Sep;35(9):1477-85. doi: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000084416.71232.EA.
PubMed 12972865Marburger CT, Brubaker PH, Pollock WE, Morgan TM, Kitzman DW. Reproducibility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in elderly patients with congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 1998 Oct 1;82(7):905-9. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00502-5.
PubMed 9781977Kitzman DW, Brubaker PH, Herrington DM, Morgan TM, Stewart KP, Hundley WG, Abdelhamed A, Haykowsky MJ. Effect of endurance exercise training on endothelial function and arterial stiffness in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Aug 13;62(7):584-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.04.033. Epub 2013 May 9.
PubMed 23665370Haykowsky MJ, Herrington DM, Brubaker PH, Morgan TM, Hundley WG, Kitzman DW. Relationship of flow-mediated arterial dilation and exercise capacity in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2013 Feb;68(2):161-7. doi: 10.1093/gerona/gls099. Epub 2012 Apr 20.
PubMed 22522508Kitzman DW, Herrington DM, Brubaker PH, Moore JB, Eggebeen J, Haykowsky MJ. Carotid arterial stiffness and its relationship to exercise intolerance in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. Hypertension. 2013 Jan;61(1):112-9. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.00163. Epub 2012 Nov 12.
PubMed 23150511Haykowsky MJ, Kouba EJ, Brubaker PH, Nicklas BJ, Eggebeen J, Kitzman DW. Skeletal muscle composition and its relation to exercise intolerance in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. Am J Cardiol. 2014 Apr 1;113(7):1211-6. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.12.031. Epub 2014 Jan 15.
PubMed 24507172
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 15 Feb 2019. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Exercise Conditioning in Elderly Patients With Heart Failure
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT01113840
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- PARIS / P.A.R.I.S. I and II
- Conditions
- Heart Failure
- Keywords
- elderly, heart failure, exercise, diastolic dysfunction
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 201 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Wake Forest UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Study start
- Jul 1993
- Primary completion
- Dec 2004 (actual)
- Study completion
- Dec 2009 (actual)
- First posted
- 30 Apr 2010 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
The purpose of this study is :
- To determine if aerobic exercise conditioning can improve symptoms, cardiovascular function and quality of life in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
- To describe the baseline clinical characteristics, cardiovascular function and neurohumoral function in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
- To determine the specific cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mechanisms by which symptoms and quality of life may improve following exercise conditioning in elderly patients with congestive heart failure.
Detailed description
In patients over age 65, cardiovascular disease accounts for the largest percentage of deaths, hospital days, doctor visits, and overall health care expenditures. In addition, heart failure is the most common discharge diagnosis in the elderly. Heart failure can be defined as a state in which cardiac output is insufficient to meet metabolic demands. This is most frequently manifested by symptoms of fatigue and dyspnea. Inherent in this definition is that symptoms may be increased or only occur during times when metabolic demand is increased, such as during exercise. As such, exercise intolerance is a hallmark of the heart failure syndrome. Exercise intolerance correlates not only with disease severity and also with subsequent mortality. Exercise tolerance can be objectively quantified during maximal symptom limited standardized exercise protocols by analysis of exercise time, workload, METS (metabolic equivalents), and oxygen consumption (V02)' These measures have appropriately become accepted as standards for functional assessment in this disorder as well as outcome measures following therapeutic interventions in HF. P.A.R.I.S. is a randomized, attention-controlled, single-blind trial of supervised aerobic exercise training in older patients with heart failure. The primary outcome is exercise capacity and the main secondary outcome is quality of life. Mechanistic outcomes were also examined. In PARIS, which focused on cardiac mechanisms, there were HFPEF and HFREF patients studied in parallel. In PARIS-II, there were only HFPEF patients which focused on vascular mechanisms.
Main outcomes have been reported (see citations below).
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (outcomes assessor)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Control | Placebo comparator | Behavioral: ControlControl group continues with their daily activity as they were prior to randomization. Receive bi-weekly follow-up phone calls to assess health status and encourage adherence with protocol. |
| Exercise | Active comparator | Behavioral: ExerciseExercise classes three times per week in a controlled, supervised environment. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 60 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Age greater than or equal to 60 years of age
- Symptoms of congestive heart failure
- Able to understand and give informed consent
Key exclusion criteria (25 listed)
- Age <60 years
- Does not have CHF
- Significant change in cardiac medication <3 weeks
- Myocardial infarction <3 weeks
- CABG surgery <3 months
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| ExerciseExercise classes three times per week in a controlled, supervised environment. | Behavioural | Exercise |
| ControlControl group continues daily life as prior to randomization. | Behavioural | Control |
Primary outcome
Peak exercise capacity
Time frame: 16 weeks
1 secondary outcome
Quality of life
Time frame: 16 weeks
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 15 Feb 2019.
- Results publication: PubMed 12413374Kitzman DW, Little WC, Brubaker PH, Anderson RT, Hundley WG, Marburger CT, Brosnihan B, Morgan TM, Stewart KP. Pathophysiological characterization of isolated diastolic heart failure in comparison to systolic heart failure. JAMA. 2002 Nov 6;288(17):2144-50. doi: 10.1001/jama.288.17.2144.
- Results publication: PubMed 20852060Kitzman DW, Brubaker PH, Morgan TM, Stewart KP, Little WC. Exercise training in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial. Circ Heart Fail. 2010 Nov;3(6):659-67. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.110.958785. Epub 2010 Sep 17.
- Results publication: PubMed 20121952Brubaker PH, Moore JB, Stewart KP, Wesley DJ, Kitzman DW. Endurance exercise training in older patients with heart failure: results from a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2009 Nov;57(11):1982-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02499.x.
- Results publication: PubMed 20562334John JM, Haykowsky M, Brubaker P, Stewart K, Kitzman DW. Decreased left ventricular distensibility in response to postural change in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2010 Sep;299(3):H883-9. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00332.2010. Epub 2010 Jun 18.
- Results publication: PubMed 21737017Haykowsky MJ, Brubaker PH, John JM, Stewart KP, Morgan TM, Kitzman DW. Determinants of exercise intolerance in elderly heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jul 12;58(3):265-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.02.055.
- Results publication: PubMed 22766338Haykowsky MJ, Brubaker PH, Stewart KP, Morgan TM, Eggebeen J, Kitzman DW. Effect of endurance training on the determinants of peak exercise oxygen consumption in elderly patients with stable compensated heart failure and preserved ejection fraction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Jul 10;60(2):120-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.02.055.
- Results publication: PubMed 17517344Moore B, Brubaker PH, Stewart KP, Kitzman DW. VE/VCO2 slope in older heart failure patients with normal versus reduced ejection fraction compared with age-matched healthy controls. J Card Fail. 2007 May;13(4):259-62. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2006.12.005.
- Results publication: PubMed 16775543Maldonado-Martin S, Brubaker PH, Kaminsky LA, Moore JB, Stewart KP, Kitzman DW. The relationship of a 6-min walk to VO(2 peak) and VT in older heart failure patients. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Jun;38(6):1047-53. doi: 10.1249/01.mss.0000222830.41735.14.
- Results publication: PubMed 16569976Brubaker PH, Joo KC, Stewart KP, Fray B, Moore B, Kitzman DW. Chronotropic incompetence and its contribution to exercise intolerance in older heart failure patients. J Cardiopulm Rehabil. 2006 Mar-Apr;26(2):86-9. doi: 10.1097/00008483-200603000-00007. No abstract available.
- Results publication: PubMed 12972865Brubaker PH, Marburger CT, Morgan TM, Fray B, Kitzman DW. Exercise responses of elderly patients with diastolic versus systolic heart failure. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2003 Sep;35(9):1477-85. doi: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000084416.71232.EA.
- Results publication: PubMed 9781977Marburger CT, Brubaker PH, Pollock WE, Morgan TM, Kitzman DW. Reproducibility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in elderly patients with congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 1998 Oct 1;82(7):905-9. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(98)00502-5.
- Results publication: PubMed 23665370Kitzman DW, Brubaker PH, Herrington DM, Morgan TM, Stewart KP, Hundley WG, Abdelhamed A, Haykowsky MJ. Effect of endurance exercise training on endothelial function and arterial stiffness in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: a randomized, controlled, single-blind trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Aug 13;62(7):584-92. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.04.033. Epub 2013 May 9.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Dalane W Kitzman, MD principal investigator
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Exercise in people with Heart Failure, run by Wake Forest University at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 25 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 15 Feb 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Peak exercise capacity (time frame: 16 weeks). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01113840, which also lists 15 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 15 Feb 2019.