and Human Services (HHS)
EXPIRED
Participating Organization(s) |
National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) |
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Funding Opportunity Title |
Nutrition and Diet in the Causation, Prevention, and Management of Heart Failure (R01) |
Activity Code |
R01 Research Project Grant |
Announcement Type |
Reissue of PA-07-139 |
Related Notices |
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Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number |
PA-11-165 |
Companion FOA |
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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) |
93.837, 93.866 |
FOA Purpose |
This initiative issued by
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National
Institute on Aging (NIA), and |
Posted Date |
March 17, 2011 |
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date) |
May 5, 2011 |
Letter of Intent Due Date |
Not Applicable |
Application Due Date(s) |
Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. |
AIDS Application Due Date(s) |
Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization. |
Scientific Merit Review |
Standard dates apply |
Advisory Council Review |
Standard dates apply |
Earliest Start Date(s) |
Standard dates apply |
Expiration Date |
May 8, 2014 |
Due Dates for E.O. 12372 |
Not Applicable |
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 1. Overview Information
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission
Information
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
1. Research Objectives
Public Health Need
Heart failure (HF) is typically a chronic disease, with progressive deterioration occurring over a period of years or even decades. Patients may become incapable of performing even the simplest activities of daily living and are at very high risk of medical complications and death. Heart failure poses an especially large public health burden. 5.8 million American adults live with heart failure. 670,000 new cases are diagnosed yearly in adults older than 45 years of age, and the average duration of disease is 8.5 years. Lifetime risk of an HF diagnosis is 20% in adults over 40. In 2006, heart failure accounted for 283,000 deaths. There were 1.1 million hospitalizations for congestive heart failure in 2004, representing $29 billion in hospital costs. It is estimated that total costs due to heart failure in 2010 will reach $39.1. Improved survival after myocardial infarction, an ever-aging population, and the rising prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension predict an increasing societal experience of heart failure that demands more effective low-cost management approaches. The influence of nutrition on HF phenotypes is poorly understood, although epidemiologic and mechanistic evidence suggests that dietary factors and alterations in myocardial nutrient metabolism may play a critical role in the development and progression of the disease. This implies that dietary modifications might reduce risk of developing HF or might delay progression to more severe forms. In addition, patients with advanced cardiomyopathies, heart muscle disorders, or congestive heart failure typically suffer from severe nutritional debilitation. Little guidance is available at present regarding optimal nutritional approaches for advanced cases, but dietary management represents a means of improving clinical outcomes for these patients.
Nutrition in the Causation and Prevention of Heart Failure
Nutritional factors have long been implicated in the development of cardiomyopathies, particularly in animals; the veterinary and agricultural literature thoroughly documents multiple types of nutritional cardiomyopathies in species as diverse as swine, cats, dogs, foxes, rodents, and herbivores. These primarily reflect dietary deficiencies or excesses of micronutrients such as vitamins or trace elements. Nutritional deficiencies are known to cause heart failure in humans as well; the best known examples are beri-beri heart failure and Keshan cardiomyopathy, due to an interaction between Coxsackie virus and selenium/vitamin E deficiency. Other causes include viruses, genetic factors, and agents that directly promote myocardial toxicity (e.g. alcohol, cocaine, or cancer chemotherapeutic agents). Most cases of HF, however, are linked to well-known risk factors for coronary artery disease. The most striking of these is pre-existing hypertension, which appears to be both indirectly and directly linked to HF, as it is a risk factor for coronary artery disease and also is considered to result directly in the development of diastolic HF.
For relatively weak causal contributors such as diet or nutrition, a good way to obtain unbiased estimates of long-term risk is through the use of prospective cohort studies that enroll groups of healthy individuals and then track the development of disease over time. In fact, recent evidence from large, long-term follow-up studies has suggested that dietary and nutritional factors can act as effect modifiers for risk factors such as hypertension, but also may have independent and possible causal effects on HF risk. The strongest evidence to date implicates elevated body mass index, high sodium intake, and possibly elevated homocysteine levels as causal or facilitative in raising risk of HF. However, it is difficult to extrapolate cohort study findings to patient treatment approaches. For example, heart failure patients are known to have poor vitamin D status, but it is not clear whether supplementation would produce benefit. Also, relatively modest intakes of alcohol may be protective, but the mechanisms for such an effect are not defined. Improved understanding of the etiologic role of nutrition in HF, derived from hypothesis-testing research that can illuminate causal mechanisms, can be expected to lead to preventive approaches as well.
Nutrition in the Management of Heart Failure
Nutrition guidance for heart failure patients is minimal, in contrast with other serious clinical cardiovascular conditions and their predisposing risk factors. Patients, families, and care providers alike seek well-integrated, robust information that accounts for specific therapeutic needs at various stages of disease, but also places them in a complete dietary context. Overall, there is a dearth of both observational and mechanistic studies related to nutrition in adult and pediatric HF patients at all stages of the disease. Thus more information is needed in various HF patient populations regarding dietary macronutrient composition, overall dietary patterns (such as the DASH diet), and the appropriate use of dietary supplements. Information particularly is needed regarding appropriate weight loss modalities for HF patients who are obese or overweight. Conversely, research is needed to better understand energy balance and nutrient metabolism and requirements in children with heart failure, who often have suboptimal growth and development patterns. Better data also are needed regarding the effects of heart failure medications on nutrient requirements and nutrient metabolism, as well as the impact of dietary modification on medication regimens. Given recent recommendations that most HF patients should engage in therapeutic exercise regimens, a better understanding is needed of the role of nutrition in exercise tolerance. For example, glycogen-sparing diets may be able to enhance exercise capacity in HF, but have not been tested widely in different patient subgroups, such as those with concurrent diabetes. Most striking, there is no evidence base at all for sodium intake recommendations for various subgroups of heart failure patients.
Advanced-stage HF patients, regardless of the original cause of disease, have unique nutritional problems that to date have been only minimally addressed. These patients typically are suffering from severe nutritional debilitation, including loss of lean body mass and energy and micronutrient reserves. Nutritional concerns among patients receiving left ventricular assist devices include a high frequency of impaired gastrointestinal function and poor nutrient absorption. Similarly, the optimal nutritional management of cardiac transplant patients is not well developed; problems include pre-transplant debilitation and post-transplant drug-nutrient interactions, which can lead to obesity, hyperhomocysteinemia, and hyperlipidemia. Better approaches are needed for characterizing nutritional status and managing nutritional support in such patients. There also is a need for a more precise definition of cardiac cachexia (based on objective endpoints), as well as research to evaluate the causes of this condition, its effects on whole body metabolism and cardiac function, and potentially useful treatments.
Investigations into delivery of nutrition-related health services are needed. Such studies could generate data that can help in decisions related to design of health care systems, effectiveness of behavioral interventions, and cost effectiveness of various treatment paradigms. Although dietary guidance often is a component of multi-disciplinary team management of HF patients, it usually is difficult to identify the specific benefits and cost effectiveness of medical nutrition therapy services compared with other treatment modalities. This is particularly important for HF patients, given that many hospitalizations are ascribed to deviations from diet and medication. Outpatients and hospitalized patients with HF need to be studied in terms of how to achieve good adherence to their prescribed treatments, and how to separate adherence vs. efficacy effects for dietary modifications. Research also is needed on cognitive, educational, behavioral, economic, psychosocial, family support, and other factors that affect the ability of HF patients to adhere to dietary recommendations.
A diverse array of investigator-initiated projects could effectively broaden the knowledge base on nutrition and HF. Studies are needed to develop and characterize novel and existing veterinary, agricultural, and laboratory small and large animal models of HF, to use in for research ranging from fundamental mechanisms to whole organism functions. Approaches that include transcriptional profiling, metabolomics, proteomics and transgenic animal models could be used to evaluate the role of alterations in nutrient metabolism on cardiac function and might shed light on the role of gene-nutrient interactions in understanding individual risk of developing heart failure, as well as predicting individual response to treatment.
Epidemiologic and population science approaches could be useful in clarifying interactions between diet, nutritional status, and risk of cardiac dysfunction/HF, and in assessing diet-disease risk relationships in patient subsets (e.g., obesity, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, anorexia nervosa, sarcopenic elderly). Use of established cohorts or existing data sets could provide an efficient research approach; taking advantage of longitudinal designs or hypothesis-generating analyses could provide descriptive data that might be the basis for power calculations for more focused studies.
The greatest impact is expected to derive from focused, mechanistically-oriented studies in humans. Such studies should be designed by multidisciplinary teams of investigators including cardiologists, nurses, and nutritionists. Most intervention trials in nutrition and HF to date have been short-term, small, and underpowered; the results have been hard to interpret, especially in the context of concurrent pharmacologic therapy, and the cardiac and nutritional endpoints often have been inadequate, preventing robust conclusions.
Appropriate designs for studies in humans would address: statistical power; effect size of
the intervention; appropriate homogeneity or heterogeneity of patient populations for testing the hypotheses of interest; potential confounding factors; time course of treatment; drop-out rates; dietary intake and nutritional status assessment; treatment compliance methodology; and intermediate measurements and surrogate endpoints relevant to HF research, including biological, clinical, and behavioral responses to specific interventions.
Selected Research Examples
Suitable topics for research include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards |
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Application budgets are not limited, but need to reflect actual needs of the proposed project. |
Award Project Period |
Scope of the proposed project should determine the project period. The maximum period is 5 years. |
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Abby
G. Ershow, Sc.D., FAHA
Program
Director (Nutrition)
Division of Cardiovascular Sciences
National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
6701
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Bethesda
MD 20892-7956 (Express 20817)
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A. Eldadah, MD, PhD
Program
Officer, Geriatrics Branch
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of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology
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B. Costello, Ph.D., F.A.C.N.
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