Vasoactive Hormones During the Night in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Before and After Treatment With CPAP.

Regional Hospital Holstebro

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Treatments: Device: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00360659

MED.RES.HOS.2004.02.PHH

Details and patient eligibility

About

We wanted to test the hypothesis that treatment with continuous positive airway pressure reduces nocturnal hypoxia and thereby affecting levels of vasoactive hormones leading to a fall in blood pressure patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 20 and 65 years
• Obstructive sleep apnea
• Hypertension or normal blood pressure

Exclusion criteria

• Drug or alcohol abuse
• Pregnancy
• History or clinical signs of disease in the heart, lungs, brain,liver, kidneys or endocrine organs
• Diabetes