Clinical trialNCT02673775CompletedInterventional

Air Pollution Study: The Effect of Ozone on the Lung

SponsorRutgers, The State University of New JerseyEnrollment135Air Pollution

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Summary

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The purpose of the study is to better understand the mechanisms of lung injury from ozone exposure. Subjects will participate in two exposure sessions: filtered air and 0.2 ppm ozone. Subjects will be asked to produce sputum through coughing after each exposure. The samples will be analyzed for macrophage activity.

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Investigators

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Howard M. Kipen, MD, MPH
Rutgers School of Public Health
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 29 Feb 2016
Primary completion: 7 Jun 2022
Completion: 7 Jun 2022
Last update posted: 25 Sept 2025
Registered enrollment: 135
Registry id: NCT02673775

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