View clinical trials related to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
Filter by:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of supine daoyin in the treatment of AECOPD.
The purpose of this randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind trial is to evaluate efficacy of acetazolamide in preventing overt altitude-related adverse health effects (ARAHE) in lowlanders with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) developing early signs of altitude-illness during altitude travel.
The study project will aim at the evaluation of the occurrence of exercise desaturation phenomenon during two different modalities of exercise (walking and stepping condition). This study will allow determining the sensibility of the 3-minute step test to detect exercise desaturation, in comparison with the gold standard (6-minute walking test). The 3-minute step test could therefore appear as a complementary tool for the evaluation of oxygen desaturation in chronic respiratory disease.
A Multi-centre, retrospective study describing the impact of PCCM standardized implementation on healthcare management among Asthma or COPD or Asthma-COPD overlap patients in Tianjin city of China, using real world electronic medical record database collected in local health care settings.
This study will determine the functional status of the nasal immune environment with LAIV exposure in COPD persons with frequent exacerbations (defined as individuals with two or more episodes of worsening in COPD symptoms requiring treatment with antibiotics and/or steroids in the prior 12 months) and COPD persons without frequent exacerbations to determine acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD)-associated dysfunction in a) cytokines and immune effector cells of the nasal mucosa and b) viral replication. The investigators hypothesize that: 1) COPD frequent exacerbators, compared to COPD infrequent exacerbators, will demonstrate altered mucosal immune responses to LAIV exposure, and 2) COPD frequent exacerbators, compared to COPD infrequent exacerbators, will demonstrate increased markers of influenza viral replication after LAIV exposure.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction intervention (MBSRI) on the reduction of stress, anxiety, and depression in people with COPD and their family caregivers. The experimental group will receive the MBSRI and the control group an informational intervention on stress management.
Between 2012 and 2014, a cohort of 90 COPD subjects of disease severity grades GOLD I-IV as well as 60 healthy control subjects (30 smokers and 30 non-smokers) have been examined regarding different clinical and blood/ sputum derived biomarkers at the investigators' research center. Of this cohort, 116 subjects were re-invited for the first follow-up study Ribolution II (NTC02522026) after 3 years (+/- 6 months) and data on the clinical course and treatment changes was obtained. This second follow-up study will re-examine all available subjects regarding disease course and treatment changes after 3 years (+/-6 months) for the investigation of ncRNA/ transcriptome biomarkers for their potential to indicate disease progression. In addition, biobanking of respective biosamples for potential future COPD biomarker research will be conducted.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition affecting 1 in 6 Canadians and does not have a cure. Flare-ups of COPD are the most common reason someone goes to hospital in Canada. This is made worse because within 30-days of having a flare-up, 1 in 5 patients will come back to hospital for the same problem. Flare-ups of COPD often have many causes and these are different person to person. Sometimes it is related to behaviours such as smoking or not using medicines properly. Other times, it is from lung inflammation. Education programs that help people learn about their disease and maintain healthy behaviours, and using phlegm to decide on which medicines will be useful, have been studied separately and appear to work, but many people still have flare-ups. To help fix this problem, we need to look carefully at each patient, to make sure they are on the right medicine but also have the right behaviours and support to benefit from medical care. The goal of this project is to see if patients who are taught the right behaviours and have their lung inflammation controlled with the right medicines will have fewer COPD flare-ups than those who get normal care.
110 COPD patients who were participated in the PR program were included in the study. Resting Heart Rate , pulmonary functions, functional capacity, perception of dyspnea, quality of life and psychological symptoms compared before and after PR.
COPD outpatients with severe and very severe (grade III-IV) disease at risk of malnutrition commencing rehabilitation (7-10-week physical activity program) were randomized to receive a high protein diet (≥ 25 energy percentage) or standard care.