The Acute and Chronic Benefits of Passive Heat Therapy for People With COPD
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) often develop high blood pressure and heart disease due to their sedentary lifestyle and difficulty exercising. The investigators will test if heating can mimic the health benefits of exercise by monitoring the increase in leg blood-flow using ultrasound during a 45-minute hot-water footbath. The patients will then undergo 6-weeks of hot-water footbaths to examine whether the changes to blood-flow lead to improvements in blood pressure and other indicators of heart disease risk.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 40
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Non-smoking individuals
• \>40 years of age
• Stable (exacerbation free for \>6 weeks), moderate-to-severe COPD (post bronchodilator FEV1/FVC \<lower limit of normal and FEV1 z-score \<2.51)
Locations
Other Locations
Canada
University of British Columbia
RECRUITING
Kelowna
Contact Information
Primary
Neil Eves, PhD
neil.eves@ubc.ca
(250) 807-9676
Backup
Kyla Coates, MSc
kyla.coates@ubc.ca
(250) 661-7207
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-08-17
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-05-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 32
Treatments
Experimental: Passive Heat Therapy
Patients with COPD assigned to passive heat therapy will have their lower legs immersed in a circulating hot water (\~42°C) footbath for 45 min per session.
Sham_comparator: Sham Immersion
Patients with COPD assigned to the sham condition will have their lower legs immersed in a circulating thermoneutral (\~36°C) footbath for 45 min per session.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: Canadian Lung Association
Leads: University of British Columbia