# Effects of Hormonal Anabolic Deficiency and Neurovascular Alterations on Mortality in Male Patients With Heart Failure

> **NCT03463226** · — · COMPLETED · sponsor: **University of Sao Paulo General Hospital** · enrollment: 169 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Heart Failure

## Interventions

- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Cardiopulmonary exercise test
- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity
- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Venous occlusion plethysmography
- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Blood sample collection
- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** Dynamometers for Handgrip Strength

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03463226
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2016-06-30
- **Primary completion:** 2020-03-23
- **Final completion:** 2020-12-30
- **Target enrollment:** 169 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2021-05-03

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03463226

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03463226, "Effects of Hormonal Anabolic Deficiency and Neurovascular Alterations on Mortality in Male Patients With Heart Failure". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03463226. Licensed CC0.

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