The closest match is a 2024 study titled "Eight-Week Creatine-Glucose Supplementation Alleviates Clinical Features of Long COVID" 2, which tested creatine plus glucose in long COVID patients, not COPD. That study did include exercise as part of the intervention, but it is a different population and a different trial. find me the study

The short version: the evidence does not contain the ERS 2025 trial protocol, so I cannot confirm whether exercise was part of the intervention.

The retrieved evidence includes no full text, methods section, or protocol description for the ERS 2025 dose-ranging trial of creatine (6 g vs 18 g vs placebo) in COPD patients. None of the records is that study. The closest match is a 2024 study of creatine plus glucose in long COVID patients [2], which did include exercise, but that is a different population and a different trial.

The COPD-specific evidence in the retrieval is a 2010 systematic review of four trials [8], not the 2025 abstract. The abstract title says "in patients with COPD undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation," which strongly implies exercise was part of the protocol, but the evidence does not confirm it.

My call: the evidence does not contain the study protocol, so I cannot confirm whether exercise was included. Confidence: high that the retrieval does not answer this question.