Mobile Applet for Weight Management in Obese Heart Failure Patients

NCT ID: NCT06455878

Last Updated: 2025-06-27

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

830 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-06-06

Study Completion Date

2026-12-31

Brief Summary

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The objective of this clinical trial is to investigate the effect of weight reduction through a diet management application and an intelligent weight scale on a composite cardiovascular endpoint in obese patients with heart failure.

The main questions are:

Does the use of a diet management APP and intelligent weight scale reduce 1-year all-cause mortality, heart failure hospitalization, and first heart failure hospital stay? Does the use of a diet management APP and intelligent weight scale improve the outcomes of assessment of heart failure frailty and quality of life for heart failure?

Researchers will compare using the fully functional diet management app and intelligent weight scale to using the limitedly functional app and intelligent weight scale to see if the app works to improve heart failure conditions.

Participants will:

Use the diet management app at every meal and the intelligent weight scale every day for 12 months, and visit the clinic at 12 months for checkups.

Detailed Description

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Obesity is one of the major risk factors for heart failure. Current guidelines for heart failure emphasize that severe obesity is associated with a poor prognosis in patients with heart failure, but there are no recommended effective interventions.

Caloric restriction alone, increased exercise, the use of weight-loss drugs, and bariatric surgery are not appropriate for obese patients with heart failure.

Whether obese heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) can benefit from weight loss treatment has not been evaluated in randomized controlled trials so far.

This study combines caloric restriction with lifestyle management to help HFrEF patients lose weight.

Conditions

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Heart Failure Overweight and Obesity Weight Loss Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Full usage of diet management app group and with the full usage of an intelligent weight scale

Full usage of the diet management app means subjects can use all functions of the application (including personal information, food record, weight record, exercise record, step count, daily dietary intake, distribution and analysis of dietary structure, and recommended foods and their structural distribution).

Full usage of the intelligent weight scale means subjects can use all functions of the scale (including the report of heart rate, total body water, body fat rate, muscle mass, protein mass, bone mass, visceral fat index, basal metabolic rate, subcutaneous fat rate, and skeletal muscle rate).

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Full usage of diet management app group and with the full usage of an intelligent weight scale

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will use the fully functional diet management application and an intelligent weight scale with full function designed for obese heart failure patients to help them losed weight and invitigate some important composite cardiovascular endpoint.

Limited usage of diet management app group and with the limited usage of an intelligent weight scale

Limited usage of the diet management app means subjects can use some functions of the application (including personal information, food record, weight record, exercise record, and step count).

Limited usage of the intelligent weight scale means subjects can use a few functions of the scale (including the weight record, lower limb impedance value, and BMI).

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Limited usage of diet management app group and with the limited usage of an intelligent weight scale

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Subjects will use the limited function diet management application and an intelligent weight scale with limited function designed for obese heart failure patients as a comparator.

Interventions

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Full usage of diet management app group and with the full usage of an intelligent weight scale

Subjects will use the fully functional diet management application and an intelligent weight scale with full function designed for obese heart failure patients to help them losed weight and invitigate some important composite cardiovascular endpoint.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Limited usage of diet management app group and with the limited usage of an intelligent weight scale

Subjects will use the limited function diet management application and an intelligent weight scale with limited function designed for obese heart failure patients as a comparator.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Age ≥18 years;
2. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 50%, with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II-III;
3. Body mass index (BMI) ≥ 26 kg/m² or male waist-to-hip ratio (WHR=waist circumference/hip circumference) ≥ 0.9, female waist-to-hip ratio ≥ 0.85;
4. Ability to use a smartphone and demonstrate compliance via a diet management mobile application during a 2-week ±1-week run-in period;
5. History of heart failure hospitalization within the past 6 months;
6. Signed informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

1. End-stage heart failure (≥2 hospitalizations for heart failure in the past 3 months, intolerance to guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), or dependence on inotropic agents);
2. Heart failure with reversible causes (e.g., peripartum cardiomyopathy, fulminant myocarditis);
3. Moderate or severe anemia (hemoglobin \[Hb\] \<90 g/L);
4. Renal insufficiency (estimated glomerular filtration rate \[eGFR\] \<30 mL/min/1.73 m²) or ongoing dialysis;
5. Uncontrolled thyroid disease (hyperthyroidism/hypothyroidism) or end-stage liver failure;
6. Alcohol or substance abuse;
7. Current use of weight-loss medications or planned bariatric surgery;
8. Malignancy with an expected survival \<1 year;
9. Conditions potentially hindering protocol compliance, as judged by the investigator (e.g., habitual reliance on food delivery services or company cafeteria meals);
10. Planned hospitalization during the trial period;
11. Concurrent participation in another interventional clinical study.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Heart Health Research Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Rong Han

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Heart Health Research Center

Locations

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Beijing Anzhen Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Langfang People's Hospital

Langfang, Hebei, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Jixi City People's Hospital

Jixi, Heilongjiang, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Luoyang No.6 People's Hospital

Luoyang, Henan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Ruyang County People's Hospital

Luoyang, Henan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Ningling County People's Hospital

Shangqiu, Henan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Yongcheng People's Hospital

Shangqiu, Henan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Shangcheng County People's Hospital

Xinyang, Henan, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Henan Provincial Chest Hospital

Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Tongliao People's Hospital

Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Xiu Yan Manchu Autonomous County Central People's Hospital

Anshan, Liaoning, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Tiemei General Hospital of Liaoning Health Industry Group

Diaobingshancun, Liaoning, China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Shenyang Tenth Hospital

Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Pingdu People's Hospital

Pingdu, Shandong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Taian First Hospital

Taian, Shandong, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Weihai Central Hospital

Weihai, Shandong, China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Qin Yuan County People's Hospital

Changzhi, Shanxi, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Xian Red Cross Hospital

Xian, Shanxi, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yulin Branch Hospital

Yulin, Shanxi, China

Site Status RECRUITING

The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University

Ürümqi, The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Yuhuan Second People's Hospital

Taizhou, Zhejiang, China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Beijing Chuiyangliu Hospital

Beijing, , China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Beijing Fangshan District First Hospital

Beijing, , China

Site Status RECRUITING

Emergency General Hospital

Beijing, , China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Kaifeng Central Hospital

Kaifeng, , China

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Yangyang Zhao

Role: CONTACT

+8618513340674

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Other Identifiers

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Study2024-1

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Identifier Source: org_study_id

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