Project
Exercise testing in patients with asymptomatic systolic heart failure
- Project term
11/2022 - 11/2023
- Granted budget
no DZHK funding
- Research resource used
Resource liquid samples/image data
- Keywords
NYHA 1, spiroergometry, right heart function, quality of life
- Principal Investigator
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Gerd Hasenfuß, Anja Sandek, Hannah Bräunig (University Medical Center Göttingen, Clinic for Cardiology and Pneumology)
The project will further investigate two factors related to exercise capacity in NYHA I patients: the influence of the right heart and quality of life/mental health.
First, general exercise capacity will be assessed by spiroergometry (maximal oxygen uptake, respiratory efficiency, oxygen pulse, etc.). The scientists will investigate potential abnormalities between the reported NYHA class and the recorded physical exercise capacity. In a second step, the potential influencing factors are analyzed. Right ventricular pump function and inferior vena cava respiratory variability will be worked up using echocardiographic data and assessed as possible determinants of better or worse endurance capacity. Questionnaires on quality of life, mental health, and personality factors will be analyzed with respect to exercise capacity. In the project, an analysis will be performed affiliated to the multicenter cohort study Transition CHF-DZHK2 (congestive heart failure) of the DZHK. The aim is to collect data from NYHA I patients to build a biobank of this underrepresented cohort.
Publications
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