Project 4: ACHIEVE PATHFINDER

Last updated: February 28, 2025
Sponsor: Henry Ford Health System
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

N/A

Condition

Congestive Heart Failure

Chest Pain

Heart Failure

Treatment

PAC provision at hospital discharge

Control non-intervention; PAC without filter

Clinical Study ID

NCT06070428
16658
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders

Study Summary

ACHIEVE-P4: PATHFINDER is a randomized, blinded clinical trial of portable air cleaners (PAC) provided at the time of hospital discharge to Heart Failure (HF) patients. It will be carried out at Henry Ford Hospitals. This project is part of the ACHIEVE GREATER (Addressing Cardiometabolic Health Inequities by Early PreVEntion in the GREAT LakEs Region) Center (IRB 100221MP2A), the purpose of which is to reduce cardiometabolic health disparities and downstream Black-White lifespan inequality. The ACHIEVE GREATER Center involves several separate but related projects that aim to mitigate health disparities in risk factor control for three chronic conditions, hypertension (HTN, Project 1), heart failure (HF, Project 2) and coronary heart disease (CHD, Project 3), which drive downstream lifespan inequality. The present study is Project 4 (Aim 1) a randomized clinical trial titled: Portable Air cleaners to Treat Heart Failure and Negate Disparities of Environment and Race (PATHFINDER), of the ACHIEVE GREATER Center.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Currently in the emergency room or hospitalized with plan to be discharged to home,or

  2. Diagnosis of heart failure

  3. BNP>200 ng/L or NTproBNP>1000 ng/L during hospitalization or within 1 month prior toscreening

  4. Expected ability to fully participate in study (can tolerate study processes, nolong travel)

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Hemodialysis dependent

  2. If dialysis is being considered by participant's care team and their eGFR value is <30 mL/min/1.73 sq m

  3. Life expectancy of less than one year

  4. Inability to provide written informed consent

  5. Age less than 18 years old

  6. Patients with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD)

  7. Heart transplant recipients

  8. Individuals who regularly use a HEPA air cleaner in their home at screening

  9. Current smokers of nicotine or marijuana

  10. Severe aortic or mitral valve disease

  11. Has a scheduled, non-diagnostic cardiac procedure within 30 days prior, or in thenext 90 days from screening (e.g. PCI, resynchronization, any cardiac surgery)

  12. If the PI decides for any reason that participation in the trial is not in the bestinterest of the patient

Study Design

Total Participants: 400
Treatment Group(s): 2
Primary Treatment: PAC provision at hospital discharge
Phase:
Study Start date:
December 18, 2023
Estimated Completion Date:
June 30, 2027

Study Description

Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common, costly, and deadly diseases affecting humans. Health disparities persist whereby HF-related morbidity and mortality are greater in Black populations for a number of reasons yet to be fully understood. While the distribution of multiple negative social determinants of health (SDoH) certainly plays a key role, growing evidence further implicates an outsized adverse impact from environmental factors among urban dwelling populations. In this regard, a number of studies show that air pollutants adversely impact HF and its prognosis. As such, the investigators believe that air pollution is a form of environmental racism and a significant contributor to poor outcomes among HF patients in Detroit, including an unacceptably high rate of death or rehospitalization (22% based on Henry Ford Health [HFH] data for 2022) at 90-days post-discharge. To combat this problem, the investigators propose to test the effectiveness of portable air cleaners (PACs), an emerging therapeutic intervention, that the investigators hypothesize will reduce personal-level exposure to PM2.5 resulting in improved clinical outcomes for HF patients.

Patients will be enrolled at hospital discharge and randomly assigned to active PAC vs. sham PAC (a PAC without a HEPA filter inside it). Two PACs will be given to each patient to place in the home after discharge (one in bedroom and one in living space). The study will also provide one PM2.5 sensor for each participant home.

Follow-up in-person visits will be scheduled at 30 and 90- days after randomization and will be completed to draw blood for biomarkers, measure blood pressure, health status (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, KCCQ), functional status (6 minute walk distance), and assess for occurrence of clinical events (i.e. re-hospitalization or death). The biomarkers include measures of heart failure disease activity (NTproBNP), inflammation (CRP) and cardiac injury (high sensitivity troponin).

Connect with a study center

  • Henry Ford Health

    Detroit, Michigan 48202
    United States

    Active - Recruiting

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