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Last refreshed on: 11 April 2016
Main ID:  NCT01525381
Date of registration: 31/01/2012
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Public title: Strategies to Improve Asthma and Treatment of Asthma in Canadians
Scientific title: Strategies to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma in Canadians
Date of first enrolment: November 2011
Target sample size: 701
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01525381
Study type:  Observational
Study design:  Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Canada
Contacts
Name:     Shawn Aaron, MD
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Affiliation:  Ottawa Hosptial Research Institute
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patient must have a recent diagnosis of asthma by a physician. Diagnosis of asthma
must have occurred within 5 years prior to entry into the study.

2. Patient must be at least 18 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients in whom methacholine challenge is contraindicated

- Patients using chronic oral prednisone.

- Patients with heart attack or stroke within three previous months, and those
with known aortic or cerebral aneurysms.

- Pregnant patients (unknown effect of methacholine on the fetus) and
breastfeeding patients (unknown whether methacholine is excreted in breast
milk).

2. Patients unable to provide informed consent.

3. Patients not able to perform spirometry and/or methacholine challenge testing.

4. Patients who have a greater than 10 pack-year smoking history (this will exclude
patients with possible COPD).

5. Patients who currently have active pulmonary Tuberculosis

6. Patients who have had eye surgery in the past 3 months or who have a detached retina

7. Patients involved in another interventional asthma study



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 100 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Asthma
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2011-221
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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