Pulmonary rehabilitation in Iranian outpatients with mustard gas lung disease: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

People with mustard gas lung disease experience cough, sputum, breathlessness and exercise limitation. We hypothesised that pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) would be beneficial in this condition.

Design

An assessor-blind, two-armed, parallel-design randomised controlled clinical trial.

Setting

Secondary care clinics in Iran.

Participants

60 men with breathlessness due to respiratory disease caused by documented mustard gas exposure, mean (SD) age 52.7 (4.36) years, MRC dyspnoea score 3.5 (0.7), St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) 72.3 (15.2).

Interventions

Participants were allocated either to a 6-week course of thrice-weekly PR (n=31) or to usual care (n=29), with 6-week data for 28 and 26, respectively.

Outcome measures

Primary

SUBMITTER: Ghanei M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11138312 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature