Effects of Empagliflozin on Exercise Capacity and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03753087 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified January 2019 by Anton Borisov, National Medical Research Center for Cardiology, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : November 26, 2018
Last Update Posted : January 18, 2019
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Heart Failure, Diastolic Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 | Drug: Empagliflozin Other: Standard care | Phase 4 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 100 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase 4, Single-center, Randomized, Parallel Group Study to Assess Effects of Empagliflozin on Exercise Capacity and Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus |
Actual Study Start Date : | January 16, 2019 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | May 2020 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | May 2020 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Empagliflozin
Patients will receive standard care for Heart Failure and Diabetes Mellitus + Empagliflozin 10mg once daily
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Drug: Empagliflozin
10 mg tablet |
Active Comparator: Control
Patients will receive standard care for Heart Failure and Diabetes Mellitus with no SGLT-2 inhibitors
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Other: Standard care
Standard care with no SGLT-2 inhibitors |
- Change in 6-minute walking distance (6MWD) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in distance walked during 6-minute walking test (6MWT) between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in left ventricular mass index (LVMI) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in LVMI assessed by echocardiography between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in left atrial volume index (LAVI) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in LAVI assessed by echocardiography between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in left atrial stiffness [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in left atrial stiffness assessed as a ratio of mitral E/e' ratio to left atrial strain s between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in PASP assessed by echocardiography both at rest and during diastolic stress test (DST) between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in average e' velocity [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in average e' velocity assessed by echocardiography both at rest and during diastolic stress test (DST) between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in average E/e' ratio [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in average E/e' ratio assessed by echocardiography both at rest and during diastolic stress between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in NT-proBNP plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in cGMP plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Endothelin 1 (ET-1) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in ET-1 plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Growth/differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in GDF-15 plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in ST2 [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in ST2 plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Galectin-3 [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in Galectin-3 plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in carboxyterminal propeptide of type I collagen (PICP) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in PICP plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Human Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in PTX3 plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in hsCRP plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Interleukin-6 (IL-6) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in IL-6 plasma levels between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change of New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]Difference in NYHA class between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline
- Change in Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) score [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
Difference in MLHFQ score between 24 weeks after baseline and at baseline.
The questionnaire is comprised of 21 important physical, emotional and socioeconomic ways heart failure can adversely affect a patient's life. After receiving brief standardized instructions, the patient marks a 0 (zero) to 5 scale to indicate how much each itemized adverse of heart failure has prevented the patient from living as he or she wanted to live during the past 4 weeks. The questionnaire is simply scored by summation of all 21 responses.
Score ranges from 0 (best quality of life) to 105 (worst quality of life).

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 45 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males and females aged 45 to 80 years at screening
- Diagnosis of type-2 diabetes mellitus with stable glucose-lowering background therapy for at least 12 weeks
- HbA1c ≥ 6,5% and ≤ 10% at screening
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Diagnosis of HFpEF which includes:
- Symptoms ± signs (as defined in 2016 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure)
- Ejection fraction ≥ 50% (by Simpson)
- Increased LV filling pressures at rest or during exercise determined by echocardiography (LV diastolic dysfunction grade II/III and/or positive diastolic stress test) [according to American Society of Echocardiography and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASE/EACVI) Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography, 2016]
- Signed and dated informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pretreatment with empagliflozin or other SGLT-2 inhibitor within the last 2 months
- Type-1 diabetes mellitus
- NYHA classification IV or acute decompensated heart failure at screening
- Impaired renal function, defined as eGFR <30 ml/min/1.73 m² of body-surface-area (CKD-EPI)
- Systolic blood pressure > 180 mmHg or < 90 mmHg
- Permanent atrial flutter or atrial fibrillation
- Other conditions that may be responsible for impaired diastolic function such as hypertrophic/restrictive cardiomyopathy, constrictive pericarditis and etc.
- Anemia (Hb < 100 g/l)
- Myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft surgery within the last 3 months
- Stroke or TIA within the last 3 months
- Indications of liver disease
- Acute genital infection or urinary tract infection
- Pregnancy
- Additional exclusion criteria may apply

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT03753087
Contact: Fail Ageev, MD, PhD | +74954146612 | ftageev@gmail.com | |
Contact: Artem Ovchinnikov, MD, PhD | artcardio@mail.ru |
Russian Federation | |
National Medical Research Center for Cardiology | Recruiting |
Moscow, Russian Federation, 121552 | |
Contact: Anton Borisov, MD AntonBorisovMD@gmail.com |
Principal Investigator: | Anton Borisov, MD | National Medical Research Center for Cardiology |
Responsible Party: | Anton Borisov, Principal Investigator, MD, National Medical Research Center for Cardiology, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT03753087 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2018-9-25 |
First Posted: | November 26, 2018 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | January 18, 2019 |
Last Verified: | January 2019 |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: | No |
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: | No |
Product Manufactured in and Exported from the U.S.: | No |
HF HFpEF DM Empagliflozin Jardiance |
Heart Failure Heart Failure, Diastolic Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Glucose Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases Endocrine System Diseases |
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