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Sarcopenia in Patients With Heart Failure
Sponsor: Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba
Summary
Sarcopenia is a frequent complication in patients with cancer and chronic diseases, it is characterized by decreased muscle strength and fatigue due to reduced skeletal muscle mass, which is accompanied by atrophy and decreased quality of muscle tissue. In all cases, it negatively impacts treatment tolerance, clinical outcomes and survival, in consequence, quality of life of these patients decreases while morbidity, mortality and costs increase. In this context, appropriate nutritional screening and early nutrition support are extremely recommended, to this aim, in some cases, oral nutritional supplements (ONS) are necessary; ONS could have a standard formula or be enriched with specific nutrients. There is a lack of evidence for supporting its use or the use of protein modules in other clinical conditions including patients with heart failure
Official title: Nutritional Management of Sarcopenia in Patients With Heart Failure
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
60
Start Date
2024-11-15
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2025-05-06
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Mediterranean diet
Mediterranean diet recommendations and daily physical exercise
Hypercaloric, hyperproteic oral nutritional supplement
Hypercaloric, hyperproteic oral supplement combined with Mediterranean diet recommendations (2 per day) and daily physical exercise
Protein module
Protein module (10g/day) combined with Mediterranean diet recommendations and daily physical exercise
Vitamin D supplementation
Calcifediol supplement administered orally in order to reach sufficiency levels (30 ng/ml)
Physical exercise
Physical exercise adapted to patients with heart failure (Cardiac rehabilitation)
Locations (1)
IMIBIC
Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain