Breathing cold air may reveal asthma better than current tests
NCT ID NCT07220928
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested a cold air breathing challenge in 60 adults (some with asthma, some healthy) to see if it can safely tell the difference between asthma and normal lungs. Researchers measured lung function and symptoms after the test. The goal is to develop a more reliable tool for diagnosing asthma and exercise-related breathing problems.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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60 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Aug 2023
- Finished
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Nov 2024
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Age between 18 and 65 years old at time of signing informed consent * BMI between 18 and 28 kg/cm2 * Ability to give informed consent and to comply with study protocol, in the investigator's judgement * Non-smoking or ex-smokers for at least 12 months with less than 10 pack years * Normal spirometry Group specific: Histamine positive healthy controls: histamine bronchial challenge test (\< 8 mg/ml) at screening Healthy controls: histamine bronchial challenge test (≥ 8 mg/ml) at screening Patients with asthma: * Physician-diagnosed asthma for at least 6 months * Post-bronchodilator FEV1 of ≥ 80% at screening * Documented airway reversibility either by means of post-bronchodilator reversibility of ≥ 12.% and ≥ 200 ml or in the previous 6 months or by means of documented airway hyperresponsiveness (histamine PC20 \< 4 mg/ml) at screening * Asthma control questionnaire (ACQ) ≤ 1.5 * Regular treatment with ICS with or without LABA (unchanged dose for at least 30 days) at a low or medium dose of ICS Exclusion Criteria: * Previous history of intubation or admission to ICU due to asthma * Severe asthma exacerbation within one month prior to screening visit * Treatment with oral or systemic steroids within one month prior to screening visit * Previous treatment with biologics for asthma * Other major concurrent pulmonary (such as COPD, cystic fibrosis, sarcoidosis, interstitial lung disease, Churg-Strauss syndrome, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, bronchiectasis) or cardiovascular disease * Pregnancy
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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UZ Leuven Gasthuisberg
Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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