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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00468234
Date of registration: 30/04/2007
Primary sponsor: University of Nebraska
Public title: Validation of Biomarkers of Exposure and Host Response
Scientific title: Validation of Biomarkers of Exposure and Host Response
Date of first enrolment: December 2005
Target sample size: 60
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00468234
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Diagnostic  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Stephen I Rennard, MD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  University of Nebraska
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Subjects must be 19 years of age or older

- Have a stable smoking habit greater than three months

- Have smoked for at least 5 pack years

- Be willing to make a serious quit attempt and be willing to use nicotine replacement
therapy

- Be able to give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

- regular use of anti-inflammatory medication; presence of any inflammatory *disease of
the respiratory tract including moderate or worse COPD (FEV1 < 80% predicted and
FEV1/FVC ratio < 0.7) or PFT criteria for asthma (improvement in FEV1>12% of
predicted and >200ml).

- Subjects with normal lung function who meet criteria for diagnosis of chronic
bronchitis will be excluded.

- Subjects with stable medical conditions, excluding inflammatory lung disease, will be
permitted to participate, providing anti-inflammatory therapies are not used
regularly and providing there has been no change in their clinical status in the two
months prior to beginning the study.



Age minimum: 19 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Cigarette Smoker
Intervention(s)
Drug: nicotine inhaler
Drug: nicotine polacrilex
Drug: nicotine transdermal system
Primary Outcome(s)
exhaled breath hydrogen peroxide
Secondary Outcome(s)
health status (SGRQ, CCQ, BCSS, LCQ)
lung function
Secondary ID(s)
009-05
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Institute for Science and Health
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