Recruitment to pulmonary rehabilitation courses or recruitment to research involving pulmonary rehabilitation may be more successful if the location of the rehabilitation can be made as near to the patient's home as possible, and if the patient is given as much information as possible about what is involved.
There is an increasing interest in the relationship between nutrition and lung health. Epidemiological studies suggest that dietary habits may have an influence on lung function and the tendency to common lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer. In particular, a diet rich in fresh fruit and fish has been associated with a salutary effect on lung health. End-stage COPD is associated with a state of nutritional depletion which is refractory to conventional nutritional supplementation. In contrast, malnutrition associated with cystic fibrosis is amenable to nutritional therapy, which has been shown to improve prognosis in this disease.
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