Saves the questions and what to expect into your notes, next to the visit they belong to.
Keep this study
Lead
Hospital de Mataró
Age
55–85
Sex
MALE
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
severe COPD defined as a post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume at one second (FEV1)/ forced vital capacity (FVC) \< 0.7 and FEV1 \< 50% predicted,
stable disease defined as no exacerbation,
hospital admission or change in treatment in the previous 3 months.
You may not be if
other significant respiratory disease (bronchiectasis,
lung fibrosis, asthma, etc),
active smoking,
severe cardiovascular,
neurological, and/or metabolic pathology that could interfere with the results,
total hip, knee or ankle arthroplasty,
previous vitreous haemorrhage,
severe alcoholism (\> 80 g/day) and
severe malnutrition (BMI \< 19 Kg/m2) to reduce the risk of falling and dropouts.
