Effects of Marijuana Used on Lung Function in Persons With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01096303

HSC-MS-09-0362

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main hypothesis is that persons that smoke or smoked tobacco and marihuana have worsen lung function as compared with persons that only smoke or smoked tobacco.

Full description

We will follow persons with already diagnosed COPD (chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema). Obtain their smoking history: tobacco and marihuana and review their pulmonary function study results. Then we are planning to compare both groups.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• COPD patients former or current tobacco smokers
• COPD patients former or current tobacco and marihuana smokers

Exclusion criteria

• History of COPD without pulmonary function testing
• Refusal to provide smoking or marihuana used history

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

COPD tobacco and/or marihuana users

Description:

COPD patients with history of tobacco and/or marihuana smoking.