NCT00498563

Effects of Mild Hypobaric Hypoxia on Sleep and Post-sleep Performance

Investigation to Determine the Effects of Mild Hypobaric Hypoxia on Sleep and Post-Sleep Neurobehavioral Performance

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 30 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Hypobaric hypoxia (decreased oxygen supply to body tissues due to low atmospheric pressure) caused by exposure to high altitude disrupts sleep. Sleep deprivation is associated with degraded post-sleep performance of neurobehavioral tasks. The lowest altitude at which sleep and/or post-sleep performance are affected is not known. The study hypothesis is that sleep and/or post-sleep performance of neurobehavioral tasks will occur due to hypobaric hypoxia at altitudes of 8,000 or less.

Conditions

• Altitude
• Hypoxia
• Environmental Sleep Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	altitude exposure in hypobaric chamber

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-10-01
• Primary completion: 2007-08-01
• Completion: 2007-08-01
• First posted: 2007-07-10
• Last updated: 2015-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States