Can diet coaching boost heart attack recovery?
NCT ID NCT07624240
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether giving heart attack patients personalized diet advice during early cardiac rehab helps them eat better. Fifty adults who recently had a heart attack took part. Some got standard rehab, while others also received one-on-one counseling from a dietitian. The goal was to see if the extra support improves diet quality and knowledge.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- dietary education
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could show that adding personalized diet advice to standard rehab helps heart attack patients eat healthier.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed study with only 50 people, so results may not apply to everyone. It's about improving diet, not treating the heart attack itself.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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50 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2024
- Finished
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Mar 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * age ≥18 years, * recent myocardial infarction treated according to standard clinical practice, * qualification for early cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction, * clinically stable status at enrollment, * ability to participate in standard rehabilitation and additional nutritional education, * ability to complete dietary and nutritional knowledge questionnaires, * ability to undergo anthropometric measurements and bioelectrical impedance analysis, * provision of written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: * refusal or inability to provide informed consent, * contraindications to cardiac rehabilitation, * severe clinical instability, including unstable hemodynamic status, recurrent ischemia, uncontrolled arrhythmia, or decompensated heart failure, preventing participation in rehabilitation; * severe cognitive, psychiatric, or communication limitations preventing participation in educational sessions or reliable questionnaire completion, * conditions preventing valid body composition assessment (according to device producer e.g. large metal implants).
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Medical University of Lublin
Lublin, 20-093, Poland
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