Clinical trial NCT01380470: Prevalence of Undiagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Sufferers in the Region of Murcia
Official title: Prevalence of Undiagnosed Sufferers in Murcia :Cross-sectional Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Keywords: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Diagnosis differential
Dyspnea/classification
Dyspnea/etiology
Lead sponsor: Fundacion para la Formacion e Investigacion Sanitarias de la Region de Murcia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: MurciaSalud
name: Public Health Service, Murcia
name: AstraZeneca
First posted: 2011-06-27
Enrollment: 1052
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Group of patients seen in consultation not previously diagnosed with COPD, both sexes, aged between 40 and 70 years.

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is determine the prevalence of undiagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in population served and with exposure to cigarettes in the Region of Murcia

Detailed description: COPD is a serious, chronic and very disabling, associated with smoking and aging. Therefore it is a preventable and treatable process. It is know to be a pathology under diagnosed and when diagnosis, this is done in advanced stage, resulting to rise to more complication and more severe, in a addition to a high social and economic cost.

Therefore, take out an epidemiological study, observational, multicentre, whose main objective is estimate the prevalence of undiagnosed COPD in population served between 40 and 70 years and exposure to cigarettes in the Region of Murcia.

Other objectives are estimate the proportion of patients already diagnosed, identifying risk factors associated with not previous diagnosis of COPD and describe the history of symptoms in them. Description of therapeutic manage and motivation to give up smoking.

The study was carried out with 120 researcher doctors and 120 researcher nurses from 40 health centers in the Region of Murcia.

Each researcher will select 10 patients for the main objective and 10 for objectives related to manage of COPD.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Aged between 40 and 70 years of both sexes
2. With a history of smoking (current or past)
3. Do not diagnosed with COPD at the time of completion of study

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Prior diagnosis of COPD or Asthma
2. A condition prevents performing spirometry
3. Patients displaced

For those diagnosed with COPD:

Inclusion Criteria:

* Subject treated in CS there is explicit evidence for the disease

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subjects who at the time of the consultation arouse suspicion of previously undiagnosed COPD

Primary outcomes:
measure: FEV1/FVC,Forced Expiratory Volume 1/ Forced Vital Capacity
timeFrame: 15 days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Murcia
country: Spain
facility: Fundación para la Formación e Investigación Sanitarias de la Región de Murcia
state: Region De Murcia
Study officials:
affiliation: Consejeria de sanidad y consumo, Direccion general de planificacion, ordenacion sanitaria y farmaceutica e investigacion.
name: Asensio Lopez Santiago, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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