ClinicalTrials.gg
Status unknownNCT03431103Updated Feb 13, 2018

The Effect of Exercise on Systemic Inflammation in Veterans With COPD and OSA

An interventional study of Exercise in COPD, OSA and Home Exercise, sponsored by Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Status unknown at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-02-13.

Sponsored by Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Feb 2018), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year after the study started (first participant enrolled Dec 2016, registered Dec 2017).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Not applicable
Sex
All
01

Study summary

The overlap syndrome (OS), i.e. the association of both Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in a single Veteran, is prevalent and associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity. Home-based exercise interventions that translate to a lifestyle with increased physical activity (PA) are an ideal strategy as 150 minutes of leisure time PA a week is associated with a significant reduction in risk of CVD related events and death. This novel research study will help develop a home exercise intervention that is largely accepted by OS Veterans, as a first step toward implementing PA into the routine medical care of the large Veteran population with COPD and OSA. This data will be used for larger studies on CVD risk and its modification with exercise in OS, a research area that is urgently needed given its high impact on Veterans' morbidity, mortality and health-care associated costs.

Read the detailed description

The term "overlap syndrome" (OS) is used to describe the association of both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obstructive sleep apnea disease (OSA) in a single Veteran. Given the high prevalence of both COPD and OSA, it is expected that a third of Veterans with OSA could be affected by OS. Importantly, Veterans with OS have a higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality than either OSA or COPD-only Veterans, likely due to worse nocturnal hypoxia and subsequent inflammation and endothelial dysfunction. Therefore, therapy for Veterans with OS that decreases cardiovascular disease (CVD) by targeting inflammation is a high priority. Home-based exercise interventions that translate to a lifestyle with increased physical activity (PA) are an ideal strategy as 150 minutes of leisure time PA a week is associated with reduction in risk of CVD-related events and death. Further, PA decreases biomarkers of systemic inflammation. However, no data is available on the effect of exercise on biomarkers of systemic inflammation in Veterans with OS. It is difficult to increase the leisure time PA in adults with COPD and OSA as this population is more sedentary due to a combination of increased obesity, daytime sleepiness and dyspnea. Therefore, home-based exercise would be ideal for these Veterans. The objective of this proposal is to conduct a single arm 12-week home-based exercise pilot intervention to determine the effect on biomarkers of systemic inflammation in 50 Veterans with OS on CPAP. The investigator hypothesizes that 1) Baseline PA intensity and duration will correlate inversely with the biomarkers of systemic inflammation independently of nocturnal hypoxia; and 2) Exercise training using a home-based computer exercise program will decrease biomarkers of systemic inflammation and increase exercise capacity in Veterans.

02

Conditions studied

  • COPD
  • OSA
  • Home Exercise
  • Inflammation

Keywords

  • overlap
  • exercise
  • inflammation
03

In context

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

5,520 studies on the registry are indexed under Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; 856 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 50 is below the median of 62 across 3,839 interventional studies indexed under Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive.

Browse Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive studies →

Lead sponsor

Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 5 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

04

Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Veterans from the Salem VAMC pulmonary clinics will be screened for a diagnosis of OSA and treatment with CPAP therapy. In addition, an inclusion criterion also will be a recent PFT diagnostic of (/FVC \<0.7 and FEV1\< 80%). Only Veterans with OS who are compliant with CPAP therapy will be enrolled in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • orthopedic problems, fall-risk, balance problems;
  • any regular participation in structured exercise sessions;
  • other concomitant sleep disorder;
  • unstable cardiovascular or pulmonary disease;
  • acute infectious illness in the prior month;
  • hospitalization in prior month;
  • prescription of systemic or immune-suppressive agents in the prior month and
  • weight above 330 pounds, the limit allowed by the Wii pressure sensor floor mat.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(3)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

05

Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Other
    After home exercise program

    Patients will be instructed to use the Wii Fit for 20 minutes at least twice a week for 12 weeks using specific Wii Fit exercises while on the Wii pressure sensor floor mat. The Wii Fit exercises will be as follows: 1." Basic Run" (warm-up exercise by walking in place); 2."Bird's Eye, Bull's-Eye" (mostly arms, requires arm flipping); 3."Free Step" (lower extremity exercise); 4."Hula Hoop" (gyration exercise)

    Behavioral: Exercise

Interventions

  • BehavioralExercise

    12 week home exercise program

06

What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. To assess the relationship between baseline physical activity (meters obtained from 6 minute walk test) and serum hs-CRP (mg/L)

    We will measure baseline physical activity (meters obtained from 6 minute walk test) and serum hs-CRP (mg/L) prior to the home-based computer exercise program (Wii Fit)

    Time frame: 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. To determine the impact of a 12-week home-based Wii Fit exercise program on physical activity (meters obtained from 6 minute walk test) and serum hs-CRP (mg/L)

    Physical activity (meters obtained from 6 minute walk test) and serum hs-CRP (mg/L) will be measured before and after a 12-week home-based Wii Fit exercise program

    Time frame: 3 months

07

Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Salem VAMC
    Salem, Virginia 24153, United States
    Recruiting
08

References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

09

Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 13, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
10

Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03431103
Lead sponsor
Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 13, 2018
Start date
Dec 5, 2016
Primary completion
May 1, 2019 (estimated)
Completion
May 1, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Feb 13, 2018

Study contacts

Kristine Allred
Contact
kristine.allred@va.gov
540-982-2463 ext. 4044

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
View the source record on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

Not currently enrolling

This study is status unknown, as verified in Feb 2018. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.

Follow this study

Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.

Sign in to follow

Discussion

Questions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.

Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.

Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.

Start the discussion