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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
[An analysis of the treadmill exercise test in a population of mild and moderate extrinsic asthmatics]
J Arias Irigoyen1, J Moliner Lahoz, F Duce Gracia
1Servicio de Medicina Preventiva, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Zaragoza.
Abstract:
The bronchial response to physical exercise on a treadmill was analyzed in 48 patients with mild to moderate extrinsic asthma diagnosed by clinical criteria and a positive methacholine test, and in 36 non-asthmatic subjects. Bronchoconstriction secondary to physical exercise was documented by measuring the percent fall in PEF in different post-exercise control times. Significant differences (p < 0.00001) were observed between bronchial response in asthmatic and non-asthmatic patients. By using ROC curves an optimal cut-off was obtained in a fall equal to or greater than 6% 10 minutes post-exercise, with a sensitivity of 0.75 and an specificity of 0.923. The bronchial challenge test with physical exercise on a treadmill, within the limits of the studied sample, can be used as a method for detecting BHR in asthmatic patients.
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