Breathing muscle training during heart rehab
Part of Heart & circulation clinical trials.
This study tests whether breathing muscle training, added to regular heart rehab, can improve how well people with heart failure do day-to-day. It also compares results with healthy volunteers who do not have certain health problems.
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Who can take part
- Be an adult age 18 or older
- Speak English enough to understand and follow study instructions
- Have heart failure and a reason to join an outpatient heart rehab program (for the heart-failure group)
- For healthy volunteers: have no major lung, heart, muscle, nerve, or bone problems
- Be able and willing to do a regular, structured exercise program at a clinic
- Be able to give informed consent
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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