Nurse Managed Upper Body Strength Training in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Completed · Phase 2 · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
In brief
This is a four month exercise training program for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)with a 12 month follow-up.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01057797
- Run by
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- People needed
- 208
- Starts
- 2003-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2010-01-27
Who can join
Age: 45 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- FEV1/FVC < 70 and FEV1 < 80%
- > or = 45 years of age
- Currently in stable clinical condition [free of respiratory tract infections for at least two months prior to enrollment, no recent change in the color, consistency, or quantity of sputum, afebrile and no recent change in medical therapy]
- Taking appropriate medications according to the GOLD standards
- Experience dyspnea with the use of their arms.
You may not qualify if…
- Evidence of restrictive lung disease or asthma
- Acute respiratory infection
- Taking oral corticosteroids on a regular basis
- >3 exacerbations in the previous year
- Evidence of significant depression (Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale >10)
- Presence of a potentially debilitating disease such as cancer, congestive heart failure, kidney disease, liver failure or cirrhosis, evidence of alcohol or drug abuse, diabetes requiring insulin therapy, musculoskeletal or degenerative nerve disease, etc.
- Presence of a condition that would make it potentially unsafe to exercise, including a history of a recent myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias causing symptoms or hemodynamic compromise, severe symptomatic aortic stenosis, uncontrolled symptomatic heart failure, uncontrolled metabolic disease, abnormal response to exercise test
- Currently participating in pulmonary rehabilitation.
Where it is running
- University of Illinois at Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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