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

Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Unrecognized Condition

Treatments

Other: CPAP

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03079466

sleep workgroup

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment

96 patients

Sex

All

Ages

70 to 100 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

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.)
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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