Trial reportLung2014
Exercise limitation in IPF patients: a randomized trial of pulmonary rehabilitation.
Trial report in Lung, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01118221 (Rehabilitation of IPF Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Rehabilitation of IPF Patients: Effects of Exercise and Oxidant Stress
Who cites it
41 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparative efficacy of different types of structured exercise interventions for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Benefits of different characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation programs in patients with interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of exercise training on exercise capacity of patients with interstitial lung disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Interstitial Lung Disease, Including Coronavirus Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of Exercise Training on Cardiopulmonary Function and Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Pulmonary rehabilitation for interstitial lung disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Exercise Tolerance and Quality of Life in IPF Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.BioMed research international · 2019Pooled it
- Functional status following pulmonary rehabilitation in people with interstitial lung disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Chronic respiratory diseasePooled it
- Trial
- Trial
- Pulmonary Daoyin as a traditional Chinese medicine rehabilitation programme for patients with IPF: A randomized controlled trial.Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2021Trial
- Short and long-term effects of pulmonary rehabilitation in interstitial lung diseases: a randomised controlled trial.Respiratory research · 2018Trial
- Risk stratification as a guide to goal-oriented management of patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease: a registry-based analysis.ERJ open research · 2026Article
- Evaluating the physiological responses to treadmill exercise based on the 6-minute walk test in individuals with COPD across severity levels.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Changes in physical activity in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis before and after virtual pulmonary rehabilitation: a feasibility study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
- The Beneficial Impact of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Review of the Current Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Self-management interventions for people with pulmonary fibrosis: a scoping review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023Article
- Predicting New-onset Exertional and Resting Hypoxemia in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Article
- Individualised Exercise Training Enhances Antioxidant Buffering Capacity in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Multiform-based Baduanjin exercise prevention and treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundPatients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) have severely limited exercise capacity due to dyspnea, hypoxemia, and abnormal lung mechanics. This pilot study was designed to determine whether pulmonary rehabilitation were efficacious in improving the 6-min walk test (6-MWT) distance, exercise oxygen uptake, respiratory muscle strength [maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP)], and dyspnea in patients with IPF. Underlying physiological mechanisms and effects of the intervention were investigated.
methodsSubjects were randomly assigned to a 3-month pulmonary rehabilitation program (n = 11) or to a control group (n = 10). All subjects initially underwent the 6-MWT and constant load exercise gas exchange studies.
resultsSubjects in the rehabilitation group increased treadmill exercise [metabolic equivalent of task-minutes] over the first 14 sessions. Beneficial effects on physical function resulted in those who completed rehabilitation. Subjects who completed the program increased cycle ergometer time and maintained exercise oxygen consumption (exercise VO(2)) at the baseline level over 3 months, while the control group suffered a significant decrease in exercise VO(2). Rehabilitation subjects also increased their MIP. Plasma lactate doubled and brain natriuretic peptide levels increased significantly after exercise, as did the plasma amino acids glutamic acid, arginine, histidine, and methionine. These changes were associated with significant decreases in arterial oxygen saturation and increases in 15-F(2t)-isoprostanes after exercise.
conclusionsPulmonary rehabilitation effectively maintained exercise oxygen uptake over 3 months and lengthened constant load exercise time in patients with moderately severe IPF. Exercise endurance on cycle ergometry testing was limited by dyspnea and severe hypoxemia associated with systemic oxidant stress.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.