Publications by authors named "N A Sievi"
Hybrid Virtual Coaching and Telemonitoring in COPD Management: The CAir Randomised Controlled Study.
Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
December 2024
Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of 12-weeks hybrid virtual coaching on health-related quality-of-life (HrQoL) in patients with stable COPD.
Methods: We equipped all patients with a CAir Desk for telemonitoring, the intervention group additionally received hybrid virtual coaching through the built-in smartphone. The multimodal intervention based on the Living well with COPD programme, containing educational content, physical activity coaching, and home-based exercises.
Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) show high variability in individual susceptibility and promote disease progression; thus, accurate diagnosis and treatment is essential. Unravelling the molecular metabolic changes during AECOPD in breath could promote understanding of AECOPD and its treatment. Our objective was to investigate the metabolic breath profiles during AECOPD for biomarker detection.
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- Acute allograft rejection after lung transplantation raises the risk of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, a serious post-transplant complication affecting patient mortality.
- The study reviewed multiple databases for research comparing surveillance bronchoscopy (SB) and clinically indicated bronchoscopy (CIB) in detecting acute rejection among lung transplant patients.
- Results indicated that neither SB nor CIB was superior in detecting acute rejection overall, prompting a need for larger studies to clarify their effectiveness, especially regarding minimal rejection cases.
Purpose: Blood-flow restriction (BFR) endurance training may increase endurance performance and muscle strength similar to traditional endurance training while requiring a lower training intensity. We aimed to compare acute cardiorespiratory responses to low-intensity interval exercise under BFR with moderate-intensity traditional interval exercise (TRA).
Methods: We conducted a randomized crossover study.