Smartphone app listens for heart failure danger signs
NCT ID NCT07443969
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a smartphone app that listens to your voice to catch early signs of heart failure getting worse. 123 people who were in the hospital for heart failure will record their voice daily for 6 months. The app looks for voice changes that might signal a problem, but doctors won't see those results during the study—they'll be analyzed later to see if the app works.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 123 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Adults aged 18 years or older hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure or de-novo heart failure, irrespective of left ventricular ejection fraction, recruited from the wards of three participating hospitals in the Netherlands and Spain.
- 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: * Informed consent provided * Currently hospitalized for acutely decompensated HF or de-novo HF * Age: 18 years and above Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to provide consent * Pregnancy * Life-expectancy lower than 1 year due to a condition other than HF * Planned cardiac intervention within the next 6 months (e.g. valve replacement, bypass surgery) * Disabling mental diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease) * Symptoms mainly caused by chronic disease other than HF such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease * Inability to use a smartphone or a tablet computer despite support by informal caregiver if required * Insufficient knowledge of the local language * Previous operations on organs involved in generation of voice (vocal tract, vocal folds, etc.) * Participation in another interventional study within 30 days of inclusion
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Barcelona, 08036, Spain
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Maastricht University Medical Centre
Maastricht, 6202AZ, Netherlands
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Zuyderland Medical Centre
Heerlen, 6419, Netherlands
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