Effect of CPAP Treatment on the Elderly With Mild to Moderate Sleep Apnea

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Unrecognized Condition
• Interventions: Other: CPAP

• Registration Number: NCT03079466
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset

Brief Summary

Objective: To analyze the impact of CPAP treatment on cognitive, clinical and quality of life domains in patients over 70 years of age with mild-to-moderate OSA

Primary Outcome: Epworth scale and QSQ domains

Secondary Outcomes: Neurocognitive variables and CPAP adherence

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2017-03
• Study Start: 2017-03-09
• Study First Submitted: 2017-03-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-03-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-03-13
• Study First Posted: 2017-03-14
• Last Update Posted: 2017-03-14
• Primary Completion: 2017-06-10
• Study Completion: 2017-07-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 96

Inclusion Criteria

• Age equal or greater than 70 years of both sexes
• Patients with sleep study results with AHI ≥ 15 and < 30

Exclusion Criteria

• Alternative diagnoses of other non-respiratory sleep disorders that are also cause of pathological somnolence (eg, sdr restless legs, narcolepsy, etc.)
• Don't sign informed consent
• Acute or chronic respiratory insufficiency requiring home oxygen therapy
• Patients with Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome
• Diagnosis of neuro-psychiatric diseases with the exception of anxiety - depression or diagnosis of dementia.
• Diseases of any origin in the acute phase
• Heart failure or recent stroke (less than 3 months).
• Central SAHS (more than 50% of the registry with central apneas or Cheyne-Stokes breathing)
• Pre-treatment with CPAP
• Inability to perform the diagnostic study of sleep due to the patient's condition
• Hipersomniaincapacitante (Epworth≥18) with no known or most likely cause related to SAHS

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
group without treatment	CPAP	-
Treatment CPAP	CPAP	A group treated with CPAP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quebec Sleep Questionnaire domains	3 months	Quality of Life measured in sleep apnea patients
Epworth Sleepiness Scale	3 months	Measure of diurnal sleepiness