Effects of Tiotropium on Walking Capacity in Patients With COPD
试验速览
- 阶段
- 4 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 33
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Endurance time during an endurance shuttle walk
研究概览
简要总结
This study was designed to test the following hypothesis:
A) The acute and long-term (3 weeks) bronchodilator-induced changes in exercise tolerance and in the physiological response during the endurance shuttle walk will be greater with tiotropium compared to placebo in COPD patients.
B) Three weeks of bronchodilation will be associated with increase activity of daily living as evaluated using the London Chest Activity Daily Living scale.
详细描述
Objectives:
The purpose of this study is to compare the acute bronchodilator-induced changes in exercise tolerance during the endurance shuttle walk between tiotropium and placebo in COPD patients. Also, it will evaluate the physiological response (VE, VO2, VCO2, and heart rate) during the endurance shuttle walk in patients with COPD patients. Finally, it will compare the long-term (3 weeks) bronchodilator-induced changes in exercise tolerance during the endurance shuttle walk between tiotropium and placebo in COPD patients and evaluate the impact of long-term (3 weeks) bronchodilation on activity of daily living evaluated using the London Chest Activity Daily Living scale.
Methods:
This will be a double-blind, randomized and parallel-group study. Due to the long action duration of tiotropium (up to 4 weeks), a cross-over design, as we used in our ipratropium versus placebo study, is not appropriate in the present study. The study will require five visits at the Centre de recherche de l'Hopital Laval. The first visit will include review of the consent form, pulmonary function testing, and a maximal incremental shuttle walk. The following two visits (Visit 2 and 3) will be used to familiarize the participants to the shuttle endurance walking test. Salbutamol and ipratropium bromide will be stopped 6 hours prior to these visits while the remaining medication allowed during the study period (see below) will be continued as prescribed. The goal of the familiarization will be to reduce the learning effect that typically occurs when an individual completes the same endurance test several times 3. On visit 4, patients will be randomized to receive one of the two treatments: placebo or tiotropium 18 ug (Spiriva) using the handihaler device. Pulmonary function testing will then be performed and the London Chest Activity Daily Living scale will be administered. Two hours following the inhalation of the first study dose, pulmonary function testing will be repeated and the patients will perform an endurance shuttle walk. They will be provided enough medication for the study duration and discharged. The same procedure as Visit 4 will be completed three weeks later, on visit 5.
Data analysis:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 50 Years 至 85 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •age > 50 years, smoking history > 10 packs/year, FEV1 < 70% of predicted and FEV1/FVC < 70%.
排除标准
- •respiratory exacerbation within the 2 months preceding the study, history of asthma, significant O2 desaturation (SaO2 < 85%) at rest or during exercise, presence of another pathology that could influence exercise tolerance.
研究组 & 干预措施
Tiotropium
干预措施: Tiotropium (Drug)
Placebo
干预措施: Placebo (Drug)
结局指标
主要结局
Endurance time during an endurance shuttle walk
时间窗: acute response (2.5 hours) following the administration of the active and comparison drug
次要结局
- Compare the long-term bronchodilator-induced changes in exercise tolerance during the endurance shuttle walk(three weeks)
- Evaluate the impact of long-term bronchodilation on activity of daily living evaluated using the London Chest Activity Daily Living scale(three weeks)
- Cardio-respiratory responses during an endurance shutlle walk(acute response following the administration of the study medication)