Acute Effects of Beet Juice Consumption on Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2014-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this project will be to determine whether consumption of beet juice concentrate prior to exercise may acutely improve exercise tolerance in patients with heart failure.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Jason Allen, Ph.D.

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II-III heart failure

• receiving optimal medical therapy

• sedentary

Exclusion Criteria:

• smoking

• changes in medication or major cardiovascular (CV) event or procedure within the previous 6 wk

• fixed rate pacemaker

• unstable angina

• other co-morbidities or limitations that preclude safe participation in the exercise testing

• plans for hospitalization or cardiac transplantation within the next 2 months

• type 1 diabetes

• refusal or inability to provide informed consent