Background Chronic breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is effectively treated with pulmonary rehabilitation. However, baseline patient characteristics predicting ...

Outcome measures Epworth Sleepiness Scale, EuroQoL-5 Dimensions-5 Levels, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Fatigue, Functional Independence Measure, Functional Oral Intake Scale, ...

Methods We compared the perception of dyspnoea (Borg scale), mouth occlusion pressure 0.1 s after the onset of inspiration (P 0.1) and ventilatory response to hypercapnia (ΔV E /ΔP ET CO 2) in 34 ...

The only beneficial differences were observed in the Borg dyspnea rating, which dropped from 6 to 5 (p< 0.039), and in one of the neuropsychological tests (psychomotor coordination) for the NPPV ...

In COPD, patients with abnormally high exertional breathlessness on CPET are unlikely to be identified via standard symptom assessment tests.

Most patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) suffered from poor sleep quality, and dyspnea was a significant predictor of sleep quality, independent of disease severity, according to ...

The researchers recorded peak oxygen uptake (peak VO 2), minute ventilation, respiratory exchange ratio, heart rate, modified Borg dyspnea score, and Borg leg discomfort score during the tests.

All participants will undergo 30 min of acupuncture three times a week for 8 weeks and will be followed up for 12 months. The primary outcome will be the severity of dyspnea, as measured using the ...

A 12-month self-guided, low-intensity, video-based lifestyle intervention helped patients with COPD and obesity lose weight, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic ...

It factors in physical signals such as breathlessness, fatigue, muscle strain, and overall general discomfort. It was initially developed by Swedish psychologist Gunnar Borg in the late 1970s and has ...

Borg dyspnea scores, a measure of breathlessness during exercise, were significantly reduced after 12 weeks of Remodulin compared with a placebo, reflecting a reduction in breathlessness. A combined ...

• Exercise combined with specific exercises to strengthen breathing muscles may not improve breathlessness, physical fitness and life quality. Strength of breathing muscles and endurance increased but ...