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Ted Rogers Understanding of Exacerbations in Heart Failure 2: Monitor

Heart Failure (HF) is a complex disease associated with the highest burden of cost to the healthcare system. The cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) is instrumental in determining the prognosis of patients with HF. This multicentre study will validate whether aggregate biometric data from the Apple Watch combined with demographic, cardiac, and biomarker testing can improve our ability to predict heart failure outcomes among a diverse outpatient HF population.

TELEMACO-S: a Telemonitoring Project in Cardiology and Technology Transfer

The primary objective of this research project is to prevent heart failure decompensation through a wearable-based telemonitoring system (smartwatches), with a focus on the development and validation of a multiparametric predictive score.

Telematic Educational Intervention in Patients With Heart Failure.

Background: Heart Failure (HF) is one of the most prevalent pathologies in Western countries, representing a significant percentage of their healthcare expenditure. Much of the success of specialised programmes for the control and treatment of this pathology is achieved within Heart Failure Units. These programmes are based on enhancing patients' capacity to perform effective self-care. Self-care in heart failure involves several aspects: maintaining healthy lifestyle habits, monitoring signs and symptoms of decompensation, controlling blood pressure, heart rate, and body weight, and the ability to manage potential decompensations either autonomously or by seeking available healthcare services. Heart failure units carry out structured therapeutic education for these patients through individualized, face-to-face educational interventions upon admission to the unit, placing special emphasis on training patients and their caregivers in effective self-care. However, studies show that the level of self-care among HF patients remains low. Furthermore, the new healthcare reality following the pandemic situation necessitates the search for strategies that facilitate better time management while improving the self-care capacity of HF patients. Within this clinical context, it is necessary to seek alternatives that allow for the provision of adequate quality of care while overcoming the obstacles imposed by the current situation. Objective: The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a telematics-based educational intervention, in addition to the standard standardised educational intervention, in self-care in patients in the Heart Failure Unit six months after admission. Methodology: A randomised clinical trial design with parallel groups (intervention and control) will be applied. The study sample, consisting of 50 patients in each group, will be recruited from patients treated in the Heart Failure Unit of the University Hospital. All patients and their caregivers (if applicable) in both groups will receive the same individualised educational intervention. The patients assigned to the intervention group will also receive a telematics-based educational intervention through video call through the WhatsApp messaging application three months after the initial face-to-face intervention. The study variables will include sociodemographic and physiological data, adherence to pharmacological treatment, immunisations, dietary assessment, physical exercise assessment, number and management of decompensations, self-care levels and quality of life. After six months in the heart failure unit, all patients in both groups will be reassessed using the same instruments and the statistical differences between the groups will be analysed. The primary outcome variable will be the level of self-care, measured by the European Heart Failure Self-care Behaviour Scale.

Description of Patient Adherence to Heart Failure Remote Monitoring and Its Determinants

This is a monocentric cohort study, with retrospective data collection and prospective semi-structured interviews. All patients who, since 2020, have received telemonitoring for heart failure after hospitalization at the CHR Metz-Thionville will be included. Patients will be informed of the study by e-mail, or by post if no e-mail is available. Data concerning their socio-demographic and clinical characteristics will be collected from the computerized patient record, and telerecording data will be extracted from the telerecording software. Patients whose follow-up is still in progress will be monitored (=simple data collection) for 12 months, or until follow-up is terminated if necessary. Patients whose follow-up has been interrupted for less than a month at the start of the study (to avoid memory bias) or during the course of the study will be contacted by telephone by the IPA carrying out the telemonitoring, and offered, after oral consent, a semi-structured interview to investigate the reasons for the interruption.

Soluble ST2 in Patients With Heart Failure"

1. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between peripheral circulating serum soluble suppression of tumorigenicity-2 (sST2) levels and inflammatory biomarkers in patients with heart failure 2. Additive role of sST2 to NPs in of heart failure patients