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Passive Heat Therapy for People With COPD

NCT05962164 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2025-04-04

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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.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Passive Heat Therapy

The intervention will consist of 6 weeks of repeated (3x/week) 45-min lower-leg immersions.

BEHAVIORAL

Sham Immersion

The sham intervention will consist of 6 weeks of repeated (3x/week) 45-min lower-leg immersions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Lung Association

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Neil Eves, PhD · Associate Professor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-08-17
Primary Completion
2026-05-31
Completion
2026-05-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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