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Biomechanical Precision Medicine Registry for Patients With and Without Heart Failure

Preserved vs. Reduced Ejection Fraction Biomarker Registry and Precision Medicine Database for Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients (PREFER-HF) Study

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03480633
Acronym
PREFER-HF
Enrollment
3000
Registered
2018-03-29
Start date
2016-04-07
Completion date
2028-12-31
Last updated
2026-08-31

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Cardiovascular Risk Factor, Heart Failure, Right Sided, Heart Failure With Mid Range Ejection Fraction, Heart Failure With Normal Ejection Fraction, Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

Keywords

Heart failure, Precision medicine, High risk patients, Pathophysiology, Bioregistry, Biomarkers, Heart failure etiology

Brief summary

In this single-center, longitudinal observational study, we will comprehensively examine clinical characteristics, proteomic, metabolomic, genomic and imaging data to better understand how different heart failure types may develop and progress over time. We will evaluate distinct sub-groups of heart failure (also known as heart failure phenotypes) and cardiomyopathies including amyloidosis with an ultimate goal of bringing the right medications and therapy to the right patients to optimize benefit and minimized side effects, an effort to improve precision medicine in heart failure.

Detailed description

Patients 18-years and older with and without heart failure (across all left ventricular ejection fraction) and cardiomyopathies including amyloidosis will be enrolled in this single center, longitudinal observational Registry. Baseline and one-year follow up blood samples including DNA as well as clinical characteristics, events leading up to heart failure diagnosis, etiology of heart failure, the presence and duration of other medical problems, laboratory, echocardiographic data and images, and therapy information will be obtained. Clinical outcomes of interest include major adverse cardiovascular events (a combination of all-cause death and heart failure hospitalizations), individual endpoints of all-cause death, cardiovascular death, all-cause hospitalization, cardiovascular hospitalization, heart failure hospitalization, right-sided heart failure, and kidney injury. Results from the Preserved vs. Reduced Ejection Fraction Biomarker Registry and Precision Medicine Database for Ambulatory Heart Failure Patients (PREFER-HF) trial will comprehensively examine longitudinal clinical characteristics, proteomic, metabolomic, genomic and imaging data to better understand pathophysiology of heart failure and phenotypes in heart failure with an ultimate goal of improving precision medicine in heart failure.

Interventions

None listed

Sponsors

Massachusetts General Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER
Roche Diagnostics GmbH
CollaboratorINDUSTRY

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

for patients with HF: * 18 years and older * History of clinical symptoms consistent with HF and at least one of the following supporting evidence of HF: * NT-proBNP \> 125 pg/mL * BNP \> 35 pg/mL * Capillary wedge pressure ≥ 15 mmHg on right heart catheterization or CI \<2.8 L/min/m2 * LVEDP ≥ 15 mmHg * Radiographic evidence of pulmonary edema * Improvement in symptoms with diuretic initiation of increase * CPET evidence of cardiac etiology of symptoms HFpEF: LVEF ≥ 50% HFrEF: LVEF \<50%

Exclusion criteria

(for all patients, including both those with HFpEF and HFrEF): \- End stage renal disease on dialysis

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE)Time from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.MACE as defined by a combined end point of all-cause mortality and HF hospitalizations.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Time to event: all-cause hospitalizationTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.
Time to event: cardiovascular hospitalizationTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.
Time to event: HF hospitalizationTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.
Time to event: Right-sided HFTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.
Time to event: acute kidney injuryTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.
Time to event: cardiovascular mortalityTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.
Time to event: all-cause mortalityTime from sample collection until the date of documented event up to 60 months after the study closure.Medical records and phone follow-up with patients and/or their physicians will allow the investigators to ascertain vital status and any significant clinical events.

Countries

United States

Contacts

CONTACTAbbie Macher, BS
ajmacher@mgh.harvard.edu617-643-6328
CONTACTLaura Stockhausen, BS
lstockhausen@mgh.harvard.edu617-724-1339
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORHanna Gaggin, MD, MPH

Massachusetts General Hospital

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Sep 1, 2026