The Influence of Bariatric Surgery on Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Overweight; Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01573676

0048-11-HYMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Obesity is a very important risk-factor in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and other sleep breathing disorders in patients with extreme BMI.

Candidates for bariatric surgery have a high OSA prevalence, ranging from 60-83%. The characteristics of patients with sleep apnea that were evaluated for bariatric surgery and had a full overnight polysomnography (PSG) screening for OSA were described and it was found that a very high prevalence (77.2%) for OSA in all subjects evaluated, regardless of pre-operative risk for OSA. A post-bariatric surgery PSG was not a part of this study.

The investigators would like to demonstrate the impact of bariatric surgery on OSA as a function of time.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All candidates for bariatric surgery over 18 yrs of age

Exclusion criteria

• Patients that underwent any OSA surgery in the past
• Patient had any bariatric surgery in the past
• Patients with COPD
• Patients with CHD
• Patients who have / had cancer that received chemotherapy or radiotherapy

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Bariatric surgery patients

Description:

Candidates for bariatric surgery.