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Last refreshed on: 9 May 2016
Main ID:  NCT02021708
Date of registration: 22/11/2013
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Public title: Effect of Shisha Smoking on the Biology of the Airway Epithelium in Qatar
Scientific title: Effect of Shisha Smoking on the Biology of the Airway Epithelium in Qatar
Date of first enrolment: January 2013
Target sample size: 64
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02021708
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Qatar
Contacts
Name:     Matthew Walters, PhD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Non-smoker

Inclusion Criteria:

- Population living in Qatar

- Must provide informed consent

- Individuals must also have smoked less than 100 cigarettes and/or less than 10 shisha
pipes in their lifetime

- Has normal pulmonary function test

- Has normal chest xray

- No signs of acute lung infection

Exclusion Criteria:

- Medical history of significant illness or other significant medical issues

- Regular shisha smoker

- Regular cigarette smoker

- Simultaneous cigarette plus shisha smoking

Shisha smoker

Inclusion Criteria:

- Population living in Qatar

- Must provide informed consent

- Must have smoked 5 pipe-yr

- Must currently smoke 5 pipes/wk

- Has normal function tests

- Has normal chest xray

- No signs of acute lung infection

Exclusion Criteria:

- Medical history of significant illness or other significant medical issues

- Regular cigarette smoker

- Simultaneous cigarette plus shisha smoking

Cigarette smoker

Inclusion Criteria:

- Population living in Qatar

- Must provide informed consent

- Confirmation of smoking status by urine testing

- Confirmation of smoking status by assessment of carboxyhemoglobin

- Has normal function tests

- Has normal chest xray

- No signs of acute lung infection

Exclusion Criteria:

- Medical history of significant illness or other significant medical issues

- Regular shisha smoker

- Simultaneous cigarette plus shisha smoking



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 60 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Smoking
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Gene expression changes in the small airway epithelium (SAE) [Time Frame: 3 days]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
13-00055 [JIRB]
NPRP 09-742-3-194
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Hamad Medical Corporation
Ethics review
Results
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