Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases"

To elucidate the mechanisms underlying inter-patient variation in response to montelukast, a drug for asthma.

To determine lung airway responses following chlorine gas exposure.

To examine air pollution, inflammation and new onset asthma in a large cohort of children in southern California.

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of approaches to correct for the effects of population stratification on case-control genetic association studies.

This project is part of a program project directed toward assessing cardiac effects of particulate and other ambient air pollutants. In this project active elderly adults living in the communities of Boston and Steubenville have attended 12 weekly sessions including approximately 40 minutes of Holter monitoring, blood pressure, and oximetry evaluation before, during, and after outdoor exercise. To investigate the relation of air pollution to cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, a second portion of this study involves abstraction of blood pressure and symptom data and downloading of available repeated measures telemetry data in two populations. These populations include: 1) 200 outpatients attending 8 to 36 repeated weekly exercise training sessions in a major hospital cardiac rehabilitation unit.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether genetic factors contribute to an individuals risk of developing obstructive lung disease from smoking cigarettes.

To map the gene (or genes) for familial pulmonary fibrosis.

To determine the effects of chronic ozone exposure on lung function in young men and women.

To implement and evaluate a comprehensive asthma education and prevention program in all 54 public elementary schools in the predominantly minority Birmingham, Alabama school system.

To test a public health model of screening, preventive isoniazid treatment, and adherence counseling plus medical education of primary care clinicians to enhance their skills and attention to TB control. Also, to test a behavioral adherence intervention for Latino adolescents with latent disease and a medical education program designed to enhance primary care (community clinic) practitioners' treatment of active and latent TB infection.