U.S., May 9 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06961929) titled 'IEEM-Heat and Heart Failure' on April 29.
Brief Summary: We will test the hypothesis that increasing skin wetness, and thus evaporative cooling, will attenuate the increase in core body temperature and accompanying cardiac stress during heat wave conditions in individuals with congestive heart failure. Secondly, we propose that fan use alone may be possibly detrimental (very hot and dry) depending on the environmental conditions. To accomplish these objectives, individuals with congestive heart failure and otherwise healthy control individuals will be exposed to the simulated heat wave condition (very hot and dry) with the following c...