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- Eczema / atopic dermatitis
Molecular Signatures of Cutaneous Dupilumab Response
Studying how dupilumab affects immune cells in eczema skin
📍 University of California, San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · Get directions →
This study examines the effect of IL4RA blockade with dupilumab on the immune cells of atopic dermatitis skin lesions.
- COPD (chronic lung disease)Asthma
The Effects of Positive Airway Pressure on the Mucolytic Effects of NAC (TEAM)
Testing whether positive airway pressure helps a lung medicine (NAC) reach mucus plugs in asthma or
📍 UCSF Airway Clinical Research Center · San Francisco, CA · Get directions →
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if positive pressure during inspiration will improve penetration of aerosolized N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) into airway mucus plugs in the lungs of patients with asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does delivery of aerosolized NAC with positive inspiratory pressure have a greater effect on mucus plug burden in the lungs than delivery of NAC without positive pressure.
- Type 2 diabetesHeart / cardiovascular disease
Acute and Chronic Effects of Oral Ketones in Subjects With HFrEF and Diabetes
Testing how drinking ketone drinks affects heart function in people with type 2 diabetes and heart
📍 University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · Get directions →
This study will provide insight into whether cardiac function changes with oral Ketone Esters (KE) administered to patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Plasma ketones are avidly extracted by cardiac muscle and their uptake is not dependent upon insulin or influenced by insulin resistance.
- Eczema / atopic dermatitis
Dupilumab De-escalation in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis
Testing whether stopping or lowering eczema treatment works for kids
📍 Johns Hopkins Univerisity · Baltimore, MD · Get directions →
This is a pilot investigator-blinded, randomized clinical trial to assess the feasibility of dupilumab treatment discontinuation or dose-reduction in children aged 1-17 years who have achieved sustained atopic dermatitis (AD) control on dupilumab.
- Asthma
Mechanism(s) of Airflow Limitation During Exacerbation of Asthma
Studying what causes breathing out to get harder during asthma flare-ups
📍 Arthur F Gelb Medical Corporation · Lakewood, CA · Get directions →
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the site and mechanisms responsible for expiratory airflow limitation in chronic, treated, non-smoking, stable asthmatics with moderate to severe persistent expiratory airflow obstruction. Treatment will include inhaled corticosteroids and long acting beta2agonists.
- Asthma
Timely Administration of IV Magnesium Sulfate in Patients With a Moderate Asthma Exacerbation
Testing early IV magnesium sulfate for people with a moderate asthma flare
📍 Oklahoma Children's Hospital · Oklahoma City, OK · Get directions →
This study aims to identify whether early administration of magnesium sulfate in moderate asthma exacerbations can potentially avoid admission, decrease length of stay in the emergency department (ED), decrease length of stay (LOS) in the general hospital floor vs pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and decrease the need for respiratory support.
- Asthma
45th Multicenter Airway Research Collaboration
Testing an emergency department treatment to prevent asthma attacks from coming back
📍 MetroHealth · Cleveland, OH · Get directions →
The study is a randomized controlled trial on the effect of emergency department initiation of Airsupra on acute asthma "recurrence" at 3 months and other related outcomes (acute asthma relapse, asthma control).
- Asthma
Leveraging Pharmacogenomics in Asthma for Predication, Mechanism and Endotyping
Testing a new way to match asthma patients to biologic treatments using genetic and lab measures
📍 Mayo Clinic · Scottsdale, AZ · +2 more US sites · Get directions →
In this study, a new method will be used to evaluate response to 2 approved biologic therapies, and assess how well each patient responds to each asthma treatment. This study will measure the response to these treatments using genomic and biologic measurements obtained from participants biosamples.
- Eczema / atopic dermatitis
Lebrikizumab in Moderate-to-severe Atopic Dermatitis
Testing a medicine called lebrikizumab for long-term improvement in eczema
📍 Physioseq USA - CA · Folsom, CA · +1 more US site · Get directions →
This research is studying a drug already approved for the treatment of atopic dermatitis (AD). This research collects health-related information and blood and skin samples to understand if the study drug, lebrikizumab, leads to long-term improvement in AD skin.
- Asthma
CHEST: A Collaboration With Community HEalth Centers to Implement SmarT for Asthma
Helping community health clinic clinicians prescribe recommended asthma care
📍 Affinia healthcare, 2220 Lemp Ave · St Louis, MO · +6 more US sites · Get directions →
Purpose: This study aims to improve asthma care by helping clinicians at community health centers prescribe a guideline-recommended treatment called SMART (Single Maintenance and Reliever Therapy). The investigators will provide training and resources to clinicians, give feedback on prescribing patterns, and offer educational tools for patients and providers.
- Eczema / atopic dermatitis
Ethnic Differences in Mechanisms of Action of Dupilumab
Studying how a common eczema treatment works differently by race
📍 University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · Get directions →
Previous research has shown that Asian and African Americans are more likely to develop atopic dermatitis (AD) than their Caucasian counterparts. However, limited information is known about AD in Asian and African American populations because most molecular studies have focused on Caucasians with AD.
- Asthma
Ventilation and Perfusion in Asthmatics
Testing how inhaled asthma medicines change breathing and blood flow in adults
📍 University of Miami - Converge Miami · Miami, FL · Get directions →
Assess regional changes to perfusion and ventilation from inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and Fast-acting beta-antagonist (FABA) among adult asthmatics using radiographically derived estimates of regional ventilation (V-distribution), ventilation defect percentage (VDP), and ventilation heterogeneity (VH).
- Obesity / overweightHeart / cardiovascular diseaseHigh cholesterol
Akkermansia Muciniphilia and Metabolic Side Effects of ADT
Testing how Akkermansia gut bacteria relate to body and blood lipid changes in people with obesity
📍 London Health Sciences Centre - Victoria Hospital · London, Ontario · Get directions →
The overriding objectives of this study are: 1. Primary outcomes: 1.
- Obesity / overweightType 2 diabetesHeart / cardiovascular disease
Pioglitazone on Heart Failure in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Participants
Testing the diabetes medicine pioglitazone in people with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart
📍 Texas Diabetes Institute/UH · San Antonio, TX · Get directions →
Our goal of the study is to learn the effects of the diabetes medication named Pioglitazone, in type-2 diabetic obese participants with Heart failure. The main question it aims to answer are: 1.
- Asthma
Sensory-Mechanical Responses to Eucapneic Voluntary Hyperventilation and Mannitol
Testing how breathing tests and mannitol affect cough-related airway reactions in people with asthma
📍 Kingston Health Sciences Centre · Kingston, Ontario · Get directions →
The objectives of this study are to determine the sensory-mechanical responses to Eucapneic Voluntary Hyperventilation (EVH) and Mannitol in individuals with cough variant asthma (CVA) and methacholine-induced cough with normal airway sensitivity (COUGH) and compare these responses to a control group of healthy individuals without asthma or chronic cough. We hypothesize: 1.
- Heart / cardiovascular diseaseDementia / Alzheimer's
Pragmatic Evaluation of Events And Benefits of Lipid-lowering in Older Adults
Testing whether lowering cholesterol in older adults affects heart and memory outcomes
📍 University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · +37 more US sites · Get directions →
PREVENTABLE is a multi-center, randomized, parallel group, placebo-controlled superiority study. Participants will be randomized 1:1 to atorvastatin 40 mg or placebo.
- Asthma
Viral Infection in Asthma (VIA) Study
Testing whether dupilumab can prevent asthma symptom worsening after a cold virus exposure
📍 University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · Get directions →
Often when people with asthma get a virus caused by the common cold (rhinovirus), they also experience an increase or worsening of their asthma symptoms. The purpose of this study is to see if the study medication dupilumab helps prevent those with mild to moderate asthma from having increased asthma symptoms, after being exposed to an experimental rhinovirus inoculation.
- Asthma
Measuring the Effect of Dupilumab Treatment on Mucociliary Clearance (MCC) in Subjects With Moderate to Severe Asthma
Testing how dupilumab or placebo changes mucus-clearing in people with moderate to severe asthma
📍 The University of Pittsburgh Asthma Institute at UPMC · Pittsburgh, PA · Get directions →
Single center, randomized, placebo- controlled study to assess change in mucociliary clearance of moderate to severe asthma patients after treatment with dupilumab or placebo.
- Eczema / atopic dermatitis
Using Dupilumab to Improve Circadian Function, Sleep and Pruritus in Children With Moderate/Severe Atopic Dermatitis
Testing how dupilumab affects sleep, itching, and body clock in children with moderate to severe
📍 Lurie Children's Hospital/Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · Get directions →
Single center, prospective, Open label study of sleep, pruritus and circadian function pre/post 12-weeks of dupilumab treatment in children 6-17 years old
- Eczema / atopic dermatitis
Dupixent and Narrowband UVB for Atopic Dermatitis
Testing dupilumab plus narrowband UVB light for eczema over 24 weeks
📍 Eczema Treatment Center of New Jersey · East Windsor, NJ · Get directions →
24 weeks open-label study with dupilumab and narrowband UVB phototherapy three times weekly for 12 weeks followed by 12 weeks of dupilumab monotherapy.
- Type 2 diabetesHeart / cardiovascular disease
Effect of Tirzepatide on Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis Using MDCT
Testing tirzepatide to see if it slows plaque buildup in heart arteries in people with type 2
📍 Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor UCLA Medical Center (The Lundquist Institute) · Torrance, CA · Get directions →
A multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group phase IV Study evaluating the effects of tirzepatide on atherosclerotic plaque progression assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in participants with a diagnosis of type II Diabetes (T2DM) and atherosclerosis.
- Asthma
Therapeutic Relevance of Abnormal Airway Morphology in Asthma
Studying how abnormal airway shape in asthma relates to symptoms and attacks
📍 St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton · Hamilton, Ontario · Get directions →
Most individuals with asthma can effectively manage their symptoms and maintain normal lung function using inhaled medications, unfortunately, there is a subset of asthma sufferers whose symptoms, lung function, and risk of asthma attacks remain unimproved despite conventional inhaled medications. There could be several reasons for this.
- Asthma
Individualizing Treatment for Asthma in Primary Care (Full Study)
Testing how to personalize asthma treatment in primary care
📍 DARTNet Institute · Aurora, CO · +12 more US sites · Get directions →
While asthma therapy is becoming more individualized based on asthma phenotypes, more research is needed to tailor newer therapies to individuals. Inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) medications are the foundation of care for all individuals with persistent asthma.