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New Study: Exercise reduces mortality for BE patients
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Mar 23 2:47pm | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
Thanks for posting this. It’s interesting that even those with discontinued exercise fared better.
I am a believer in exercise and am sure we benefit, but one thing in the study struck me as quite odd and makes me wonder if they could reach valid conclusions.
“ Key variables impacting mortality, such as disease severity—including exacerbation history, lung function, specific treatments, and bacterial colonization—could not be analyzed due to the lack of available data (52–54).” Disease severity might have a bigger impact on their survival than exercise; they might not be able to exercise due to severity. It also seems odd that they had info on the comorbidities, but not PFT’s, exacerbations and severity. Those seem like key variables.
As I said, I’m a believer in exercise and think we benefit. I wish they’d included more info.
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Cathy - This was a really interesting read, but it was not an independent study. It was a review of their quite regimented required annual/biennial physicals.
The information we would like to see probably did not exist in the records of physicals that they studied. They would have had to drill down into the patients' actual treatment records for their lung conditions, which was outside the bounds of their research.
However, if you look at the citations, these docs are fully immersed in the research, and may get to studying more variables in a subsequent review.
In the meantime, I am headed out for a quick walk and then will do some digging in my pots - I have plants crying for attention and it is cool and not windy today.