Can a smartphone app help frail heart patients get stronger?
NCT ID NCT07330882
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a new health management program for people with coronary heart disease who also have frailty (weakness, low energy). The program uses a mobile app to guide exercise and healthy habits, with support from a cardiac rehab center. Researchers will enroll 200 participants to see if the program improves walking distance, quality of life, and frailty scores over time.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- behavioral intervention (exercise rehabilitation and health management via mobile app)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide an effective, scalable way to help people with heart disease and frailty stay active and improve their quality of life.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small, early-stage study (200 participants) focused on feasibility and short-term outcomes. Results may not apply to all patients or settings, and long-term benefits are not yet proven.
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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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About 200 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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 to 80 years
- 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: * Diagnosis of Coronary heart disease; * Proficiency in smartphone use; * Absence of visual, auditory, cognitive, or motor impairments. Exclusion Criteria: * Inability or unwillingness to provide informed consent; * Physical or cognitive limitations preventing app operation; * Inability to attend in-person follow-up visits; * Concurrent severe comorbidities or malignancies, such as severe valvular heart disease, New York Heart Association class IV heart failure, severe aortic regurgitation, cancer, end-stage renal or liver disease; * Any other condition that could potentially impede exercise participation.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University
Bengbu, China
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