Active clinical trials for "Lung Diseases, Obstructive"

The risk factors and causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease（COPD）are not clear, so the prevalence of COPD is high and the prevention effect is not good. Because the pathogenesis of COPD is not completely elucidated, the diagnosis and classification of COPD are inaccurate which resulting in poor efficacy of treatment. Therefore, it is of great scientific and clinical significance to find out the risk factors and causes of COPD, to clarify its pathogenesis, to put forward the prevention and early intervention measures of COPD, to warn the occurrence of COPD, to predict the deterioration of the disease, to reduce the occurrence of COPD and to slow down the progress of COPD. The project establishes a cohort of COPD people，high-risk group and the healthy group. The project studys the risk factors, etiology and pathogenesis of COPD. The project studys the interaction between genetic factors and environmental factors on COPD and its effect on pathogenesis, progression and outcome of COPD.

This panel study aims to evaluate the effects of air pollutants on cardiopulmonary health of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and explore the potential biological mechanisms.

This project aims to implement a health prevention program for smokers or former smokers including early detection of lung cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The clinical activity is completed by a pre-clinical evaluation of molecular bio-markers of early diagnosis of these diseases, with the aim of strengthening the sensitivity and specificity of the screening program. The project also includes a cost-effectiveness assessment to validate the feasibility of the program. Since lung cancer, CVD and COPD are among the deadliest smoking-related pathologies, the program includes actions aimed at raising awareness among primary care physicians, increasing the smoking cessation rate of participating subjects to improve quality of life.

The present feasibility study aims at assessing whether the EMG of respiratory muscles can serve as an objective marker of dyspnea in COPD patients. The study aims also at evaluating the changes in physiological parameters (i.e., EMG, respiration rate, heart rate, temperature, and SpO2) occurring when simulating daily activities before, during and after acute exacerbations. All this information can be useful to detect the exacerbations earlier or to provide better treatment during the exacerbations.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disease that endangers people's health, causing severe economic and treatment burdens. Sleep breathing disease, as a complication of COPD, increases the hospitalization rate and mortality of COPD. At present, community doctors have insufficient knowledge of COPD and its complications, and they also lack standardized screening and related disease management capabilities. This trail intends to use IoT medical technology to screen for COPD combined with sleep breathing diseases. It can establish a two-way referral channel between primary community hospitals and higher-level hospitals, which provides early warning services for COPD combined with sleep breathing diseases. This trial explores the impact of sleep breathing disease on COPD's acute exacerbation, which improves the understanding of COPD patients combined with sleep breathing diseases. It also improves COPD management and its complications control at the community-level and reduces COPD patients' potential risks and treatment burdens. It also explores tiered diagnosis and treatment models for COPD, promotes the construction of intelligent IoT infrastructure, and enhances standardized diagnosis and treatment of COPD at the grassroots level in China.

COPD is ranked number 3 by the WHO list of important diseases worldwide and is the only disease with increasing mortality. The pathogenesis of cigarette smoke-induced COPD is obscure, therefore more insight is needed to design effective anti-inflammatory agents. We hypothesize that healthy individuals who are susceptible to smoking demonstrate a higher and aberrant inflammatory response to cigarette smoke. This susceptibility is caused by heterogeneous factors and is associated with various polymorphic genes that interact with each other and with the environment. Objective: To define mediators involved in the early induction of COPD in susceptible smokers (and so to define new drug targets) To develop new biological and clinical markers for the early diagnosis and monitoring of COPD To compare between susceptible and non-susceptible individuals the corticosteroid responsiveness of bronchial epithelial cells in vitro, and to study the mechanisms of smoking-induced corticosteroid unresponsiveness. To study the role of candidate genes that may play a role in the development of fixed airway obstruction, and to identify clues for patient's responsiveness to specific drugs.

Abstract Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada. COPD is not just a disease of men, nor is it solely a disease in old age. Women have been underrepresented and early disease has not been studied. Underdiagnosis of COPD remains a significant problem, and it may indicate an unmet healthcare need. This can potentially results not only in a patient been misinformed, but can lead to incorrect management. Epidemiological research is needed to develop a framework to combat this major health problem, by better characterization of the population of men and women at risk and patients with early disease, by better understanding which factors modifiable through health interventions are related to health perception (health-related quality of life) and disease evolution. This will be possible through a nationwide study, the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung disease (CanCOLD), a prospective longitudinal study. The CanCOLD study is built on the current ongoing prevalence nationwide study, the Canadian Obstructive Lung disease "COLD" study. The CanCOLD will be the first study to assess prevalence of disease across Canada and its consequence in men and women, and to evaluate a conceptual model of disease severity based on patient's health perception (health-related quality of life). Ultimately, this project will extend to a longitudinal follow up (3 years or beyond) and will allow to have a better understanding of the lifestyle risk factors, not only smoking but also diet, physical activity, and co morbid conditions. This will be a great asset to shift from management of a single risk factor (tobacco control) to total COPD risk management. The results of the study will greatly help to assist decision makers in developing policies to improve the diagnosis, the management of COPD and to optimize health care services use.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation is a major cause of physician visits and hospital admissions associated with acute respiratory failure, causing increased morbidity and premature mortality and thus it can significantly affect Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Previous studies suggested that patients who have experienced frequent exacerbation present worse HRQoL compared to patients with infrequent exacerbations. However, there are still questions regarding the relationship between HRQoL and exacerbations. In the present study the investigators will study a cohort of COPD patients over 6 years, they will document exacerbations, they will assess lung emphysema by computed tomography of the chest and they will evaluate health related quality of life in COPD patients. The investigators hypothesize that the extend of emphysema in COPD patients is positively correlated with worsen Health related quality of life (HRQoL).

APEX COPD is registry to provide a mechanism to standardize, store and utilize data to enable greater power to answer key research questions, and to improve patient outcomes in COPD primary care.

In the UK, field-based walking is prescribed in the pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) setting as a convenient, less resource-intensive, and highly responsive exercise modality in COPD patients. However, endurance time during the implementation of field-based walking protocols, such as the endurance shuttle walking (ESW) protocol, is limited to only a few minutes secondary to intense exertional symptoms. It therefore seems sensible to develop an intermittent field-based walking protocol that would prolong endurance time and walking distance compared to the commonly implemented in the PR setting continuous ESW protocol. The aim of this study is three-fold: 1) to identify whether an intermittent shuttle walking protocol significantly prolongs walking distance compared to the widely implemented continuous ESW protocol in the PR setting in patients with advanced COPD; 2) to investigate the test re-test reliability of the distance walked during the intermittent shuttle walking protocol; and 3) to explore patients' and health care professionals' experiences of implementing the intermittent walking protocol and the perceived factors affecting the implementation of these protocols in the PR setting. The study hypothesis is that the intermittent shuttle walking protocol would be associated with lower dynamic hyperinflation and breathlessness, thereby facilitating an increase in walking distance compared to the continuous ESW protocol. The same group of patients with advanced COPD will initially perform an incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) (visit 1) to establish peak walking speed and subsequently patients will perform the continuous ESW protocol (visit 2) at a walking speed corresponding to 85% of peak walking speed to the limit of tolerance. On two additional visits (visits 3 and 4) patients will perform two intermittent shuttle walking protocols to the limit of tolerance by alternating 1-min walking bouts at a walking speed corresponding to 85% peak walking speed (equivalent to the ESW protocol) with 1-min rest periods in between walking bouts to establish the reproducibility of this protocol. Focus group interviews with patients and healthcare professionals will be conducted to explore perceptions of undertaking and implementing, respectively the intermittent walking protocol.