Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases"

The national COPD screening program is in a cross-sectional manner at the baseline, planning to recruit a total of 800,000 participants from 160 districts or counties (5,000 for each site on average) from 31 provinces, autonomous regions or municipalities directly under the central government of China. The filtered COPD high-risk population and confirmed COPD patients will be managed and followed up according to the standardized clinical guidelines. The major aims of the program are to estimate the prevalences of COPD high-risk population and under- or miss- diagnosed COPD patients, and to manage the development and outcomes of the disease.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often caused by cigarette smoking, but genetic predisposition also influences COPD susceptibility. The purpose of this study is to identify genetic factors that predispose some individuals to develop COPD.

Recognition of disease specific clusters of volatile organic compounds in patients with different lung diseases, using breath analysis with ion mobility spectrometry. Lung diseases of interest are: COPD tumors airway infection interstitial lung disease sleep apnea Hypothesis: Breath analysis with ion mobility spectrometry can differentiate pulmonary disorders.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate new therapies for advanced lung disease.

The COPD Patient-Powered Research Network (COPD PPRN) is a patient research registry with the goal of enrolling 75,000 or more COPD patients and those at risk who are willing to share their heath information over several years and participate in research. The COPD PPRN has built an online platform to allow volunteers to enroll electronically, complete surveys, be contacted about studies they qualify for and become connected to COPD resources. The goal of the registry is to speed research to find better treatments for COPD and ultimately a cure.

This is a cross sectional case controlled study to assess lung microbiome and inflammation in smokers with and without Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Investigators will look at active bacterial metabolic pathways in the lower airways using metagenomic and metabolomic approaches an assess relationships among microbiome, metagenome, metabolome and host immune responses in COPD and controls. Investigators believe COPD cases will have higher prevalence of pneumotype supraglottic predominant taxa (SPT) than matched controls.

VA is a leader in virtual care (VC), including the patient portal, mobile apps, and telehealth programs. VC has great utility for managing chronic conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, adoption of many VC services has been slow. Lack of awareness about these services is one of the most prominent patient- and healthcare team-facing barriers to adopting VC. This study will develop, refine, and pilot a stakeholder-informed multicomponent implementation strategy to support adoption of VC, referred to as VC-OPTIONS (Virtual Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Adoption Support). This feasibility trial will pilot the VC-OPTIONS implementation strategy to assess feasibility and acceptability and gather preliminary effectiveness data to inform a larger hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial. The core component of VC-OPTIONS will be the provision of information via VA's Annie texting program to empower patients with knowledge about the array of VC services and how they can be used to support COPD management. It is hypothesized that this strategy will be acceptable and feasible. This work will improve patient and team awareness of and communication about VC services, and support patient access to VC services for COPD management.

The primary aim of this randomised controlled trial is to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of low-intensity exercise with blood flow restriction (BFR) in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD). The investigators will also collect functional and physiological outcome data to explore potential mechanisms and provide data for a power calculation to be used in a future randomised controlled trial (RCT) to ensure that subsequent full scale clinical RCT has maximum reach and benefit. The primary experimental hypothesis that underpins these aims is: • Low-intensity exercise with BFR is a tolerable, acceptable, and safe exercise modality in COPD patients. 40 patients attending clinics at University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) National Health Service (NHS) Trust with diagnosed COPD will be randomly allocated to a home-based body weight exercise intervention either with or without the blood flow restriction (n=20 in each group). The body weight exercise will consist of five body weight exercises including: sitting knee extensions, standing knee raise, heel-toe raises, bilateral mini-squat behind a chair, and chair rise/sit to stand. In addition to the pre and post intervention visits, the initial two training sessions for both groups will be directly supervised in the research centre. These sessions are to ensure all exercises are performed correctly and safely and the patient become familiar with the exercises and BFR equipment and mobile application, which provides exercise guidance and session recording.

The objectives of this study are to evaluate Efficacy and safety of beta-glucan supplement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.