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Clinical studies

Studies showing you can achieve better patients’ results by using oxygen therapy to improve their quality of life and survival rates, and reduce depression and hospitalisation.

Increased quality of life and survival rates

Continuous or Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy in Hypoxemic Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: A Clinical Trial in Annals of Internal Medicine, 1980; 93(3): 391 – 398
Report from the Medical Research Council Working Party. Long Term Domiciliary Oxygen Therapy In Chronic Hypoxic Cor Pulmonale Complicating Chronic Bronchitis And Emphysema in The Lancet, Volume 317, No. 8222, 681 – 686, March 198

Reduced depression

Petty T, Supportive Therapy in COPD in Chest, 1998; 113(4_supplement); 256S-262S
Cottrell J, et al. Home Oxygen Therapy : A Comparison of 2- vs 6-Month Patient Reevaluation in Chest, 1995;107 (2):358-361

Reduced hospitalisation

Ringbaek TJ, et al. Does long-term oxygen therapy reduce hospitalisation in hypoxaemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? in European Respiratory Journal, 2002; 20:1, 38–42