Vitamin D Supplementation Can Improve Heart Function in Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy

• Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center (Other)
• Overall Status: Unknown status
• CT.gov ID: NCT02517814
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 100
• Location: 1
• Arm: 1
• Duration (Months): 12
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 8.3

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Vitamin D deficiency could be a high risk for cardiovascular diseases. It has been recently reported that vitamin D deficiency is another cause of heart failure and cardiomyopathies. It was found that vitamin D supplementation improved the heart function. The purpose of this study is to evaluate patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathies and determine whether vitamin D supplementation in cases where there is a deficiency, improves heart functioning.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated	Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Anticipated Enrollment: 100 participants
• Allocation: N/A
• Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Study Start Date: Oct 1, 2015
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Oct 1, 2016
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Oct 1, 2016

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Patients with cardiomyopathy Patients with vitamin D deficiency and cardiomyopathy will receive supplementation with vitamin D 400 units per day for 6 months.	Dietary Supplement: Vitamin D

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Number of participants with Improvement of heart function [6 months]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Post heart surgery

• Congenital heart disease

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Hillel Yaffe Medical Center	Hadera		Israel	38100

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02517814
• Other Study ID Numbers: HY-2015-06
• First Posted: Aug 7, 2015
• Last Update Posted: Aug 7, 2015
• Last Verified: Aug 1, 2015

• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Cardiomyopathies; Cardiomyopathy, Dilated; Vitamin D

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 7, 2015