Lifestyle overhaul may ease chest pain in hidden heart disease
NCT ID NCT06025994
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether a multi-domain lifestyle program—including diet, exercise, stress management, and tailored medication—can reduce chest pain and improve quality of life in people with coronary microvascular dysfunction (small vessel heart disease). About 120 patients will be randomly assigned to the lifestyle program or standard care and followed for up to 5 years. The main goal is to see if angina symptoms improve after one year.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- multi-domain lifestyle intervention (diet, exercise, risk management, tailored medication, psychological support)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that a comprehensive lifestyle program improves chest pain and quality of life for people with microvascular heart disease.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small, open-label trial (no placebo), so results may be influenced by patient expectations. The intervention is complex and may be hard to replicate in routine care.
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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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123 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2023
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2029
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 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: * Patient admitted to hospital for chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) with indication for coronary artery angiography * absence of obstructive coronary artery disease at invasive coronary artery angiography * Coronary microvascular dysfunction as identified by invasive coronary physiology Exclusion Criteria: * Planned coronary revascularization * Co-morbidity reducing life expectancy to less than 1 year * Any factor precluding 1-year follow-up * Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery * Presence of a chronic total occlusion (CTO)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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AOU Ferrara
Ferrara, Ferrara, 44124, Italy
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AOU di Parma
Parma, Parma, Italy
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