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Administrative data

NCT number NCT04114929
Other study ID # UCentalLancashire
Secondary ID
Status Withdrawn
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date March 1, 2020
Est. completion date August 1, 2022

Study information

Verified date November 2022
Source University of Central Lancashire
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study evaluates two methods of prescribing exercise intensity in a Phase IV cardiac rehabilitation programme. One method is using specific ventilatory markers and the other following standard care guidelines.


Description:

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the United Kingdom's (UK) biggest killers. In the UK alone 175,000 myocardial infarctions are recorded annually. While these numbers are significant advances in preventative therapy and medical treatment have contributed to an overall reduction in mortality in the UK. As such there is a growing need for effective secondary prevention. To lower the financial burden on the National Health Service (NHS), cardiac rehabilitation (CR) facilitates a systematic and multidisciplinary approach to secondary prevention aimed to improve functional capacity and health-related quality of life, lower rehospitalisation rates and reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality with exercise training being the cornerstones. A 2016 Cochrane review found benefits of exercise-based CR for patients with coronary artery disease. Both cardiovascular mortality and hospital readmissions were reduced, when compared with a no-exercise control. However, in contrast to previous systematic reviews and meta-analyses, there was no significant reduction in risk of reinfarction or all-cause mortality. Further a recent systematic review and meta-analysis (2018) found no differences in outcomes between exercise-based CR and a no-exercise control at their longest follow-up period for: all-cause mortality or cardiovascular mortality. The authors also found a small reduction in hospital admissions of borderline statistical significance. One possible answer to the above findings is the under dosage of exercise intensity and duration in UK CR. A recent multicentre study of routine UK-based CR (current clinical practice) indicated that the 'exercise dose' within outpatient UK CR may be insufficient to meaningfully improve cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) when compared with international programmes. Given the prognostic relevance of improving CRF and that exercise and physical activity has a 'dose-response' relationship with cardiovascular disease risk, these findings may explain why UK CR programmes do not appear to improve patient survival. UK-based guidelines advocate a percentage range-based method for prescribing exercise intensity. However, there are a number of limitations of this method. The investigators and others have recently shown that prescribing exercise intensity using percentage heart rate reserve (%HRR) can lead to patients receiving different exercise training doses from what would be historically viewed as the same exercise training intervention. Prescribing exercise based on %HRR ignores the important role that metabolic perturbations play in stimulating physiological adaptation in response to exercise training. The ventilatory anaerobic threshold (VAT) is an important objective metabolic threshold that indicates when incrementally greater contributions from anaerobic metabolism are required to sustain further increases in workload. The VAT has been proposed as a minimum exercise training intensity that must be exceeded in order to improve aerobic fitness. Compelling data has shown that the occurrence of the VAT is patient-specific, and can occur at different percentage of a patient's HRR. Basing an exercise training programme on estimated, or even directly measured %HRR could therefore result in heart rate training zones being set either above, or below the VAT. Patients who are prescribed the 'same' exercise training programme based on %HRR could be exposed to different metabolic stimuli and therefore a different exercise training dose. This may explain why some patients appear to 'respond' to a treatment, whilst others may be classified as "non-responders." Prescribing exercise that can improve CRF for patients attending CR is essential, and greater consideration for how exercise is prescribed in a community-based setting is required. Given the VAT is a significant threshold, with evidence reporting it to be a superior method, comparisons to the %HRR method are limited in clinical populations. As such the primary focus of the study is to compare the effectiveness of a threshold-based model (ventilatory threshold) versus a relative percent model (%HRR) for improving cardiorespiratory fitness in patient attending Phase IV community based cardiac rehabilitation.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Withdrawn
Enrollment 0
Est. completion date August 1, 2022
Est. primary completion date November 1, 2021
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 85 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Patient has read and understood the Patient Information Sheet - Diagnosis of coronary heart disease (CHD) including myocardial infarction(MI), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or exertional angina. . Diagnosis of heart failure - Aged between 18 and 85 years - Absence of contraindications to exercise testing and training - Clinically stable (symptoms and medication) - Patient is able to and has given written informed consent - Able to comply with guidelines for participation in exercise testing & prescription Exclusion Criteria: • Clinically Unstable

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Threshold-based Training
Specific ventilatory markers determined from a cardiopulmonary test and the correlating heart rate will be used to determine exercise intensity
Standard Care
Using the standard care cardiac rehabilitation guidelines exercise will be based on estimated heart rate maximum followed by the karvonan method to calculate 40-70% heart rate reserve

Locations

Country Name City State
United Kingdom School of Sport and and Health Sciences Preston

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
University of Central Lancashire Leeds Beckett University, Sheffield Hallam University, University of Hull

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Peak Oxygen Consumption Change Peak Oxygen Consumption as determined by a cardiopulmonary exercise test Baseline & 3 months
Secondary Health Related Quality of Life Change (EuroQoL EQ-5D) Quality of Life as determined by the Health Related Quality of Life Questionnaire. The questionnaire five sections, mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety and depression. The scoring system is not displayed on the questionnaire however when evaluating runs in order of severity (0-4). A 0-100 scale follows where a patient will score their health status. 100 means the best health they can imagine and 0 means the worst Baseline & 3 months
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