Chest
Volume 153, Issue 5, May 2018, Pages 1116-1124
Original Research: COPDTai Chi and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Compared for Treatment-Naive Patients With COPD: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Key Words
COPD
indacaterol
pulmonary rehabilitation
Tai Chi
Abbreviations
6MWD
6-min walk distance
MCID
minimal clinically important difference
mMRC
modified Medical Research Council dyspnea score
PR
pulmonary rehabilitation
SGRQ
St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire
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Drs Zhong and Luo contributed equally to the study.
FUNDING/SUPPORT: The study was in part funded by Novartis China as an investigator-initiated trial; the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease (Guangzhou Medical University) was the sponsor. The study drug (indacaterol) was provided by Novartis China. Both the Key State Laboratory (Guangzhou) and the NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Unit provided in-kind support, the latter through partial salary support of M. I. P. Space for the study was made available by the governors of Xing-Ning People’s Hospital. Y.-M. L. was also partially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Project No. 2016YFC1304200).
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc under license from the American College of Chest Physicians.