Oral β-Alanine Supplementation in Patients With COPD

Launched by HASSELT UNIVERSITY · May 11, 2016

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • COPD: diagnosis of moderate to very severe COPD according to Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines
• • Healthy controls: forced expiratory volume at one second/forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC) \> 0.7, matched for age and gender
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • The presence of known instable cardiac disease
• • neurological disease and/or musculoskeletal disease that preclude safe participation in an exercise test
• • a history of drugs/alcohol abuse
• • vegetarianism
• • inability to understand the Flemish language.
• COPD-specific exclusion criteria:
• • COPD exacerbation and/or hospitalization in the last 6 weeks
• • participation in pulmonary rehabilitation in the previous 12 months.