NCT06168266Recruiting
Effects of Eccentric Exercise Training in Patients With COPD
Effects of Smart Eccentric Exercise Training on Lymphocyte Immunity and Erythrocyte Rheology in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 12 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this study is to design eccentric exercise strategies for COPD patients to comprehensively improve their cardiopulmonary/muscular fitness, immune and hemorheological functions, and quality of life, thereby improving the prognosis of their disease.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 170 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 5 Dec 2023
- Start date
- 13 Dec 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Oct 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Fu Jen Catholic University
- Diseases
- COPD
- NCT number
- NCT06168266
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 170
- From 13 Dec 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Oct 2027
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Those who use oxygen therapy or ventilator at home
- Taking anticoagulant medications
- Recent or planned significant cardiovascular surgery or intervention
Other illness
- Severe heart failure (NYHA III-IV)
- Neuromuscular disease
- Other conditions restricting exercise for over a year
- Planned heart transplant within the next six months
- Heart failure due to uncorrectable valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease or obstructive cardiomyopathy
- Inadequate ICD settings for exercise heart rate
- Other exercise contraindications: unstable angina, uncontrolled blood pressure, orthostatic hypotension with symptoms, severe aortic stenosis, acute discomfort or fever, uncontrolled arrhythmias, uncompensated heart failure, acute pericarditis or myocarditis, recent thrombosis or thrombophlebitis, resting ST-segment deviation, uncontrolled diabetes, etc.
Other
- Existing of tracheostomy
- Acute exacerbation within the past three months
- Those who are unable to cooperate with the cardiopulmonary exercise test
- Current or planned pregnancy within the next year
Who the study is looking for
- Having undergone pulmonary rehabilitation for more than 3 months
- Sign the written informed consent form
- FEV1/FVC \< 0.70
- Approval for exercise training granted by a specialist physician's assessment
- Specialist physician's approval for exercise training
Age in the registry: 20 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital, Fu Jen Catholic University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Taipei City | Taiwan | Recruiting |
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