Active clinical trials for "Chronic Disease"

An interdisciplinary team with extensive garden study experience conducted a pilot randomized controlled clinical trial to see whether gardening reduced risk factors for diseases like cancer and heart disease. The pilot trial will provide preliminary data on associations between human microbiome, diet, physical activity, and social interactions and the outcomes of weight status and key inflammatory biomarkers.

Intranasal irrigation with normal saline is routinely used in sinus surgery to clean the tip of the nasal endoscope and clear the surgical field from blood. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the difference in the surgical visualization, surgeon satisfaction and total blood loss when intraoperative irrigation was performed with a solution of normal saline with adrenaline as compared to irrigation with normal saline alone in FESS.

Randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of a five-day course of pre-operative oral steroids on decreasing intra-operative blood loss during endoscopic sinus surgery.

The Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ (HESL) is a six-week community nutrition and lifestyle education program designed specifically for the elderly (>60 years), to promote dietary and behavioral changes towards a healthy lifestyle. The intervention was evaluated using a randomized-controlled trial.

This is a phase III, randomized, controlled, open label study with two vaccine regimens. The study will assess the relative safety and immunogenicity of vaccine regimens comparing adjuvanted versus non-adjuvanted formulations of A(H1N1) inactivated influenza virus vaccine in subjects with Chronic Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Heart Disease, or Diabetes Mellitus, and to compare safety and immunogenicity data with a contemporaneously enrolled control group of age-comparable, healthy subjects. Because certain individuals may be hypo-responsive to influenza vaccination, additional studies with high-risk groups are warranted in order to determine the optimal vaccine formulation and dosing schedule for prevention of novel H1N1 virus infection.

Hypothesis: The first part of the study is a survey on the prevalence of anemia of chronic disease (ACD) among COPD patients. The 2nd and 3rd part will test 2 null hypotheses (Ho): 1.serum inflammatory markers and plasma erythropoietin do not differ between COPD patients with and without ACD and 2. exercise capacity does not differ between COPD patients with and without ACD. Rationale-Aim: ACD is an immune driven disorder, developing in subjects suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases. COPD is a disorder very likely to be associated to ACD due to its systemic inflammatory dimension. Currently, data on the prevalence of ACD and on the level of inflammatory markers which are implicated in the pathogenesis of ACD in COPD subjects are limited and controversial. Furthermore, there is no data on the effect of ACD on exercise capacity of COPD subjects. Based to the aforementioned, this study has three goals: to determine the prevalence and the epidemiologic characteristics of ACD in a population of clinical stable COPD patients to investigate whether the levels of serum inflammatory markers and of plasma erythropoietin differ between COPD patients with ACD and without ACD to determine potential differences regarding the aerobic exercise capacity between these two groups, using the cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET).

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of a Guided Care nurse on the quality of the health and well-being of the frail elderly. A specially trained registered nurse will work closely with 1-3 primary care physicians to provide the most complex older patients (and their unpaid caregivers) with health care that is comprehensive, coordinated, patient-centered, and proactive. The study will evaluate the effects of Guided Care on: older persons' physical and mental health, health services utilization, quality of care, self-efficacy, and satisfaction with care; older persons' unpaid caregivers' burden; and primary care physicians' satisfaction with their care of chronically ill patients.

Many elderly primary care patients are at high risk for health complications and functional impairment due to low levels of physical activity. Previous trials of counseling of elderly patients in primary care clinics have not demonstrated lasting physical activity change and have not evaluated fitness changes associated with any increased activity.

This was a pilot evaluation conducted to test procedures for a possible future trial and provide preliminary insights regarding whether text messages sent to Veterans could help support nutrition and/or physical activity health goals. For the purposes of the pilot, the goal was to enroll one participant.

This is a prospective, descriptive, observational research study designed to observe and document the clinical practice by domain experts, and how the knowledge of new findings that are published in the medical literature affect clinical decision making. The study will evaluate risk factors and co-variants, including genetic variants that are associated with disease progression such as pain, inflammation, organ dysfunction, disability and quality of life.