This is an observational study of 1000 participants to further define the nature of early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in younger, at-risk individuals. The study has three main goals: * To use CT scan imaging to identify which smokers will develop COPD. * To identify biomarkers predictive of smokers that will develop COPD. * To determine if sputum (phlegm) can be analyzed to predict which smokers will develop COPD. Procedures (methods): All participants will undergo study related questionnaires assessing medical history, smoke exposure and use, medication use, social and behavioral health, pulmonary symptoms, food frequency, and will provide nasal swab, blood, stool, and urine samples, pulmonary function testing to determine function, sputum induction to provide a sputum sample for airway biospecimen analysis, and CT imaging of the lungs.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,000
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
RECRUITINGMayo Clinic Arizona
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
RECRUITINGNational Jewish Health
Denver, Colorado, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
RECRUITINGJohns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
RECRUITINGColumbia University
New York, New York, United States
RECRUITING...and 4 more locations
PRM fSAD
Parametric Response Mapping captures the change in lung density between matched inspiratory and expiratory images thereby enabling the distinction between normal lung parenchyma (PRMNORM), emphysema (PRMEMPH), and non-emphysematous air trapping referred to as functional small airway disease (PRMfSAD).
Time frame: Year 2-5
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