Changing Lifestyle in OSA Males Who Suffer Metabolic Syndrome and Impotence: Is There a Response?
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Cairo University
- Where
- Egypt1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 40 people, planned
- Started
- 15 Apr 2025
- Planned end
- 5 Sept 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- lifestyle changing plus CPAP
- CPAP
- Record updated
- 7 May 2025
Who can take part
- Age
- 40 years to 50 years
- Sex
- Men only
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnea
- erectile dysfunction (mild and moderate)
- metabolic syndrome men
Who cannot take part
- cardiac patients
- psychiatric men
- autoimmune diseased men
- renal diseased men
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 40 and 50 years old?
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About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The problems like metabolic syndrome and sexual impotence in males with obstructive sleep apnea are common. continuous passive airway pressure (CPAP) is an authorized treatment for this type of apnea but still the recommendations of changing lifestyles are the suggested cornerstone therapies especially in obese males
The 2 groups in the trial
- study groupTreatment being tested
20 males with metabolic syndrome, sexual impotence (erectile dysfunction), and obstructive sleep apnea will be in this group (CPAP will be applied in this group that will contain 20 males, CPAP will be applied five days weekly during night-sleeping for 4 hours for 12 weeks plus lifestyle changes that will contain 3-session per-week 40-minute treadmill exercising and low-caloric/dietary 12-week restriction.
Treatment: lifestyle changing plus CPAP
- control groupExisting treatment, for comparison
20 males with metabolic syndrome, sexual impotence (erectile dysfunction), and obstructive sleep apnea will be included this control group. in this group CPAP will be applied five days weekly during night-sleeping for 4 hours for 12 weeks
Treatment: CPAP
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Effect of Addition of Changing Lifestyle to CPAP in OSA Males Who Suffer Metabolic Syndrome and Impotence
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06960746, who can take part
- Record updated
- 7 May 2025