BACKGROUND Patients with COPD have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Whilst pulmonary rehabilitation has proven benefit for exercise tolerance and quality of life, any effect on cardiovascular risk has not been fully investigated. We hypothesised that pulmonary rehabilitation, through the exercise and nutritional intervention, would address these factors. METHODS Thirty-two stable ...

INTRODUCTION Skeletal muscle impairment is an important feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Renin-angiotensin system activity influences muscle phenotype, so we wished to investigate whether it affects the response to pulmonary rehabilitation. METHODS Two studies are described; in the first, the response of 168 COPD patients (mean forced expiratory volume in one second 51...

BACKGROUND Standardised evidenced-based materials and mechanisms to facilitate the delivery of the education component of pulmonary rehabilitation are not widely available. The aims of this study were: 1) to adapt the self-management programme Living Well with COPD (LWWCOPD) programme, for embedding in pulmonary rehabilitation; and, 2) to conduct a process evaluation of the adapted programme. ...

UNLABELLED [Purpose] This study evaluated the effects of caregiver education on pulmonary rehabilitation of patients who have undergone lung resection for cancer. [Subjects] Patients were divided into experimental (n = 22) and control (n = 19) groups. [Methods] The caregivers of the experimental group patients received education on pulmonary rehabilitation, while the control group patients rece...

In recent years growing attention has been paid to rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive lung disease and other respiratory cripples. Issue number 6 of the European Respiratory Review is devoted to this topic [1], and in the present issue of the Respiratory Journal, recommendations for the use of Pulmonary Rehabilitation are published [2). The latter publication is from the Europe...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation improves outcomes in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD), however it is unclear whether these effects are long lasting and which patients benefit most. METHODS Patients with ILD were recruited into this prospective cohort study from three pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Patients completed functional assessments (6-minute walk distance (6MWD), a...