Objetivo: describir las características de ingreso en pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica que ingresan a un programa de rehabilitación pulmonar en una IPS de la ciudad de Cali. Método: estudio observacional de tipo transversal. Se recolectó información sobre las características sociodemográficos, clínicas y capacidad funcional de 130 pacientes con Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica en el periodo de julio de 2012 a junio de 2014, en un programa de rehabilitación pulmonar de una institución prestadora de servicios de salud en la ciudad de Cali, Colombia. Resultados: la edad promedio de los participantes fue 70.9 años ± 9.5, de ellos el 61% eran hombres. El 38% tenían comorbilidades de tipo cardiovascular. Los ß2 agonistas de acción corta y los Anticolinérgicos inhalados con una frecuencia del 76% son los fármacos más utilizados. El 85% habían fumado. 90.8% de los pacientes no realizaban actividad física regularmente, al ingreso al programa la disnea MRC tuvo una media de 3.1± 1.1; en test de caminata de los 6 minutos mostró una distancia recorrida media de 290 metros ± 11.6 Conclusiones: los pacientes con EPOC que ingresaron al programa de rehabilitación pulmonar en su mayoría eran de edad avanzada, por lo tanto ingresan con mayores comorbilidades, un deterioro marcado en su capacidad funcional y presencia de sintomatología progresiva que limitaba las actividades de la vida diaria; por este motivo se deben diseñar estrategias de intervención específicas para este tipo de población.
Objective:
To determine the effects of a pulmonary rehabilitation program in patients with
COPD who use and do not use supplemental oxygen during exercise.
Materials and Methods:
Prospective longitudinal descriptive study on 59 patients with COPD who
were part of a pulmonary rehabilitation program and who were classified into two groups: a group
that required supplemental oxygen during rehabilitation and another that did not.
Results:
31 patients were linked to the group that used oxygen during rehabilitation and 28 patients
who did not use it. The average age was 69.1 ± 10.6 years old. The mMRC dyspnea decreased 0.7 ±
0.2 (p = 0.000) in the group that used oxygen and 0.8 ± 0.1 (p = 0.000) in the group that did not use
it. The distance increased 45.9 meters ± 7.2 (p = 0.000) in the group that used oxygen and 65.2
meters ± 16.3 (p = 0.001) in the group that did not use it.
Conclusion:
Both groups showed significant improvements in dyspnea and aerobic capacity,
however, there was a greater increase in the group that did not use oxygen.
Background: The CONMEBOL Libertadores Cup, is the continent's most important international club tournament. Teams are exposed to different altitudes with short acclimatization periods. The present study describe the effect of altitude on the results and goals of soccer club teams matches between 2000 and 2015 in the CONMEBOL Libertadores Cup. Materials & Methods: All home and visiting matches from the group phase onwards and which have been played at the traditional team venue were taken into account, thus, 2039 games were analysed. The teams were classified into altitude categories according to the physiological impact and registered hometown altitude. Poisson´s generalized linear model was used to study the relationship between the altitude of both home and visiting teams and the number of goals scored for each team according to the altitude category. The probabilities that the home team winning, drawing, or losing the match were estimated using a regression model for ordinal variables and assuming a multinomial probability distribution with the logistic linkage. Factors as heat, temperature and general performance of the teams were not considered. Results: Local team scores more (2.62 goals) when the visiting team descends three altitude categories, followed by a descent of two altitude categories (2.01 goals) and an ascent of three altitude categories (1.89 goals). This is associated with an increase probability of winning for the local team, being 5.5 times more likely when the visiting team descends three altitude categories, 2.3 times more when it descends two categories, and 2.5 times more when it ascends three altitude categories. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the visiting team is more likely to lose a match when it has to descend two or three altitude categories and when it ascends three altitude categories.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.