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First received: February 25, 2023

Clinical Trial: External Body Pressure in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

Study Status: Completed

Recruit Status: RECRUITING

Condition: Heart Failure, Diastolic

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL


Official Title: External Body Pressure and the Impact on Exercise in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection

Brief Summary: The primary objective of the study is to test the impact of positive and negative body pressure on exercise capacity, symptoms, blood volume distribution and central cardiac hemodynamics in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.Aim 1 will study healthy volunteers and heart failure patients non invasively while Aim 2 will study heart failure patients invasively (intracardiac pressures).

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