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Trial reportThe American journal of cardiology2025

Home-Based Exercise and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Peripheral Artery Disease: The LITE Randomized Clinical Trial.

Mary O Whipple, Shujun Xu, Dongxue Zhang, Jack M Guralnik, Bonnie Spring, Lu Tian, Diane Treat-Jacobson, Lihui Zhao, Michael H Criqui, Mary M McDermott

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in The American journal of cardiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02538900 (Low InTensity Exercise Intervention in PAD), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02538900 nacompletednot on this map

Low InTensity Exercise Intervention in PAD

TypeinterventionalSponsorNorthwestern UniversityRan2015 to 2020Enrolled305ConditionsPeripheral Artery DiseaseArmsExercise, Attention control
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Mary O WhippleSchool of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Shujun XuFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Dongxue ZhangFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Jack M GuralnikDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
Bonnie SpringFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Lu TianDepartment of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Diane Treat-JacobsonSchool of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lihui ZhaoFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Michael H CriquiUniversity of California, San Diego, California.
Mary M McDermottFeinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: mdm608@northwestern.edu.

Funding

Sequential Multiple Assessment Randomized Trial of Exercise for PAD: SMART Exercise for PADR01AG076577 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Mary McGrae McDermott · 2022 to 2026
$3.3M
Low InTensity Exercise Intervention for Peripheral Artery Disease: The LITE TrialR01HL122846 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI MCDERMOTT, MARY MCGRAE · 2015 to 2018
$3.0M
University of MN Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's HealthK12AR084223 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI SHARON S ALLEN, Kristen Patricia Mark · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL122846NIAMS NIH HHS K12 AR084223NIA NIH HHS R01 AG076577
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), we evaluated the effects of 12 months of walking exercise at a pace inducing ischemic leg symptoms (high intensity) on the attainment of meaningful improvement in patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and 6-minute walk, compared to walking exercise at a comfortable pace (low intensity) and a nonexercise control. Participants completed the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) to evaluate objective walking ability. PROMs included the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ) distance and speed scores (range 0 to 100, 100-best, minimal clinically important difference (MCID) = 15 and 11, respectively). 240 participants (61.7% Black, 48.3% female) participated. High intensity exercise increased 6MWT compared to control (+44.8 meters (95% CI:21.7,68.0) and compared to low-intensity exercise (+37.6 meters [95% CI:18.6,56.5]). Low intensity exercise had no significant benefit compared to control (+7.3 meters [95% CI:-16.3,30.9]). High intensity significantly increased attainment of the MCID for the 6MWT compared to low intensity (OR:2.43 [95% CI:1.35,4.38]) and compared to control (OR:5.22 [95% CI:2.32,11.76]). Compared to control, high intensity exercise significantly increased the odds of attaining an MCID for the WIQ distance score (OR:2.30 [95% CI:1.05,5.04]) and WIQ speed score (OR:2.94 [95% CI:1.27,6.83]). Compared to low intensity, high intensity did not significantly increase the odds of attaining an MCID for the WIQ distance (OR:0.93 [95% CI:0.53,1.66]) or the WIQ speed score (OR:1.31 [95% CI:0.71,2.43]). In conclusion, in people with PAD, high intensity walking exercise increased the odds of meaningful improvement in PROMs compared to control, but not compared to low-intensity exercise. Despite this, high intensity exercise improved 6MWT more than the low intensity exercise and nonexercise control groups (NCT02538900).

Indexed as

Exercise TherapyPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresPeripheral Arterial DiseaseWalkingAgedExercise ToleranceFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedWalk Test6-minute walkexerciseexercise therapyhome-based exerciseintermittent claudicationmobilityperipheral artery diseaseself-reportwalking

Identifiers

PMID40020770
PMCPMC12087892

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