Background: Asthma and obesity are public health problems with increasing prevalence worldwide. Clinical and epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that obese asthmatics have worse clinical control and health related quality of life (HRQL) despite an optimized medical treatment. Bariatric surgery is successful to weight-loss and improves asthma control; however, the benefits ...
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The impact of bronchiectasis on sedentary behaviour and physical activity is unknown. It is important to explore this to identify the need for physical activity interventions and how to tailor interventions to this patient population. We aimed to explore the patterns and correlates of sedentary behaviour and physical activity ...
Background: Little is known of the early changes in physical activity after lung transplantation.
Objectives: The purposes of this study were: (1) to describe physical activity levels in patients up to 6 months following lung transplantation and (2) to explore predictors of the change in physical activity in that population. Design. This was ...
Rationale: Physical inactivity in COPD predicts health care utilization and mortality.
Objectives: To prospectively evaluate the relationship of this variable to the frequency of 30-day readmissions.
Methods: Following a hospitalization for an exacerbation, consented patients discharged following an exacerbation of COPD were asked to wear an ActiGraph GT3X+ accelerometer ...
Purpose: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may cause not only inflammation in the lungs but also systemic effects. One potential strategy to reduce systemic inflammation and attenuate disease progression is physical activity (PA). However, no nationally representative studies, to our knowledge, have examined the association between objectively measured physical activity ...
Background: Symptoms during physical activity and physical inactivity are hallmarks of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our aim was to evaluate the validity and usability of six activity monitors in patients with COPD against the doubly labelled water (DLW) indirect calorimetry method.
Methods: 80 COPD patients (mean±SD age 68±6 years and ...
Objective: To determine the reliability and validity of the Multimedia Activity Recall for Children and Adults (MARCA) in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Design: People with COPD and their carers completed the Multimedia Activity Recall for Children and Adults (MARCA) for four, 24-hour periods (including test-retest of 2 days) ...
Background To assess the relationship between physical activity in second year of life and respiratory symptoms during the pre-school period.
Methods This study was embedded in the Generation R Study, a large prospective birth-cohort study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Physical activity was measured in the second year of life by ...
Rationale The number of exacerbations in the previous year has shown to be the best predictor of new exacerbations. The ability to recall exacerbations may lead to misclassification of patients and may have consequences on patients’ phenotype.
Methods 47 patients with COPD (FEV1 65±21%pred) reported on a monthly basis all health ...
Rationale It is unclear whether different activity monitors provide similar classification of physical activity (PA) in patients with COPD.
Aim To test whether similar PA classification of patients would be obtained when using 2 valid activity monitors.
Methods We assessed PA for 4 weeks with Actigraph [(ACT: Steps and vector magnitude units (...