Yudai Fujimoto, Taishi Dotare, Emi Maekawa, Kentaro Kamiya, Takeshi Kitai, Koichiro Kuwahara, Teruyasu Sugano, Masaaki Konishi, Tomohito Ohtani, Yoko Sakamoto, Kentaro Jujo, Chiharu Noda, Junya Ako, Naotake Yanagisawa, Yuya Matsue
AIMS: The ALIMENT-HF trial aims to determine whether high-calorie and high-protein oral nutritional supplements (ONS) are safe and beneficial for older adult outpatients with heart failure (HF). METHODS AND RESULTS: This multicentre, single-arm, interventional pilot trial is designed to evaluate the tolerance, efficacy, and safety of ONS in older adult outpatients with chronic HF, malnutrition, and anorexia. In total, 80 outpatients with HF regardless of their left ventricular ejection fraction will be treated with ONS, including high-energy (900 kcal/day) and high protein (36 g/day) supplementation, at eight sites in Japan...
April 16, 2024: ESC Heart Failure