TerminatedNot Applicable

Heat Waves and the Elderly With COPD

Stopped: Study terminated due to recruitment challenges coupled with our focus changing to a different direction.

United States1 participantsStarted 2024-01-01

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate thermoregulatory responses in older individuals with COPD.

Who can participate

Age range65 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * 65 years old or older * Diagnosis of COPD Exclusion Criteria: * Known heart disease * Other chronic medical conditions requiring regular medical therapy including cancer, diabetes, uncontrolled hypertension, and uncontrolled hypercholesterolemia etc * Abnormality detected on routine screening suggestive of provokable ischemia or previously undetected cardiac disease or resting left bundle branch block on screening electrocardiogram * Current smokers * Participant with a body mass index ≥31 kg/m2

What they're measuring

Core body temperature

Timeframe: Prior to and throughout each simulated heat wave exposure, an average of 480 minutes

Forced expiratory volume (FEV1)

Timeframe: Prior to, during, and after each simulated heat wave exposure, approximately 10 min each

Forced vital capacity (FVC)

Timeframe: Prior to, during, and after each simulated heat wave exposure, approximately 10 min each

FEV1/FVC ratio

Timeframe: Prior to, during, and after each simulated heat wave exposure, approximately 10 min each

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06295523

SponsorUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2025-10-01

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