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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

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

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

About the study

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.

Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Participants: 3,000 · Started: Apr 7, 2016

Contact the study team

• Abbie Macher, BS · Phone: 617-643-6328
• Laura Stockhausen, BS · Phone: 617-724-1339

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT03480633

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 29, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.