NCT03722069

Dietary Sodium Intake in Acute Heart Failure

A Normal Sodium Diet Preserves Serum Sodium Levels During Treatment of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is design to assess two levels of dietary sodium intake in the treatment of patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.

Detailed description

This study aim at assessing the effect of two levels of dietary sodium intake during seven days in hospitalized patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. It is a prospective cohort, randomized, with blinded intervention groups: low sodium diet (the patients will receive 3 g/day of dietary sodium intake), and normal sodium diet (patients will receive 7 g/day of dietary sodium intake). Besides that, both groups will be submitted to a fluid intake limited to 1000 ml/day.

Conditions

• Heart Failure; With Decompensation
• Heart Failure，Congestive

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Low sodium diet	Patients received low sodium diet (3g of sodium chloride/day) and a limit of fluid intake of 1000 ml/day.
OTHER	Normal sodium diet	Patients received normal sodium diet (7g of sodium chloride/day) and a limit of fluid intake of 1000 ml/day.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-20
• Primary completion: 2017-08-20
• Completion: 2017-09-20
• First posted: 2018-10-26
• Last updated: 2018-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil