Follows heart patients in cardiac rehabilitation to study how they recover
Observes adults with heart disease referred for rehabilitation at Hochgebirgsklinik Davos over time.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Hochgebirgsklinik Davos
- Where
- Davos, SwitzerlandSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Cardiac REhabilitation COhort at the Medicine Campus DaVos to invEstigate Recovery
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 10,000 people, planned
- Started
- 5 Aug 2025
- Expected to end
- 5 Aug 2040
- Type of study
- Observational
- Record updated
- 29 September 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults who are having cardiac rehabilitation at the Hochgebirgsklinik Davos and agree to take part. It follows how they recover.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- All sexes can join
- Disease stage
- Patients with heart disease who are in cardiac rehabilitation at the Hochgebirgsklinik Davos
Main reasons for not taking part
- Not enough German to understand the study documents, interview or questionnaires without translation
- Physically or mentally unable to take part in the study
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patients undergoing CR at the HGK
- Written informed consent
- Age ≥ 18 years
Who cannot take part
- Insufficient knowledge of the German language to understand study documents, the interview, or questionnaires interview without translation
- Physical or psychological incapability to participate in the study
Where in Switzerland
- Hochgebirgsklinik DavosDavos, SwitzerlandContact: Researchteam Hochgebirgsklinik DavosTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The RECOVER study, titled Cardiac Rehabilitation Cohort at the Medicine Campus Davos for Exploration of Recovery, is a prospective, non-interventional, monocentric cohort study conducted at the Hochgebirgsklinik Davos. The study is sponsored by Medicine Campus Davos AG and the Kühne Foundation, with an estimated start date in July 2025 and planned completion by December 2034, with the possibility of extension.
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The principal investigator of the study is PD Dr. David Niederseer from Hochgebirgsklinik Davos, who also represents the study. The research team includes co-investigators such as Prof. Dr. Stefan Blankenberg and Prof. Dr. Andreas Ziegler from Cardio-CARE, Medicine Campus Davos, as well as Dr. Jan Vontobel from Hochgebirgsklinik Davos.
The study will enroll patients referred to Hochgebirgsklinik Davos for cardiac rehabilitation who provide informed consent. Cardiac rehabilitation is an evidence-based therapy for patients with heart disease, including those who have undergone cardiac procedures or surgeries.
The primary objectives are to evaluate baseline patient characteristics, rehabilitation strategies, predictors of recovery, and clinical outcomes during and after rehabilitation. To support this, a detailed database and biobank will be established to allow for comprehensive phenotyping, extensive clinical assessments, and long-term follow-up.
RECOVER seeks to gain translational insights into how patient-specific factors - such as genetics, plasma, digital and clinical biomarkers, and comorbidities - influence long-term clinical outcomes. The goal is to identify modifiable risk factors to optimize individualized therapeutic approaches in cardiac rehabilitation.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Cardiac REhabilitation COhort at the Medicine Campus DaVos to invEstigate Recovery
- Plain-language title
- Follows heart patients in cardiac rehabilitation to study how they recoverGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 29 September 2026