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| Name | Class |
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| United Therapeutics | INDUSTRY |
| Mayo Clinic | OTHER |
| University of Vermont Medical Center | OTHER |
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a home rehabilitation program for patients diagnosed with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) will decrease Cardiac Effort (number of heart beats used during 6-minute walk test/walk distance) and improve quality of life. Ultimately, this information could help improve the management of patients with PAH.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Exercise Intervention Group | Experimental |
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| Standard of Care | Placebo Comparator |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Exercise | Behavioral | The intervention group will receive daily activity messages sent through SMS text message or email.The messages will provide daily exercises with heart rate guidance. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Mean change in cardiac effort | Cardiac effort is the number of heartbeats used during the a six minute walk test divided by walk distance | baseline to 3 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Mean change in six minutes walk distance | The amount of distance walked in six minutes | baseline to 3 months |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Daniel Lachant, DO | Contact | 585-273-4608 | daniel_lachant@urmc.rochester.edu |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| University of Rochester Medical Center | Recruiting | Rochester | New York | 14642 | United States |
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| ID | Term |
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| D015444 | Exercise |
| D059039 | Standard of Care |
| ID | Term |
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| D009043 | Motor Activity |
| D009068 | Movement |
| D009142 | Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena |
| D055687 | Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena |
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| Standard of Care | Behavioral | The control group will receive daily non-descript messages to help with blinding and to eliminate the confounding variable of daily contact. The messages will not include activity tasks and will include phrases such as "I hope you have a good day". |
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| D019984 | Quality Indicators, Health Care |
| D011787 | Quality of Health Care |
| D006298 | Health Services Administration |
| D017530 | Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation |