NCT01610024

Northern Board Beet Breathlessness Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Northern Health and Social Care Trust · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Hypothesis: Beetroot juice increases the exercise tolerance of patients with chronic lung disease. Using the already established pulmonary rehabilitation model, we aim to split the group of 8 into 2 groups, each group taking 500ml of beetroot juice 24 hours before there class on alternate (differing) weeks to see if it improves their overall exercise tolerance.

Conditions

• Exercise Tolerance (Measured in Minutes)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Beetroot Juice	Give subjects 500ml beetroot juice in the 24 hour period prior to class begins. They will receive this during 3 of the 6 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2012-06-01
• Last updated: 2013-06-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom