NCT06960746

Changing Lifestyle in OSA Males Who Suffer Metabolic Syndrome and Impotence: Is There a Response?

Effect of Addition of Changing Lifestyle to CPAP in OSA Males Who Suffer Metabolic Syndrome and Impotence

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 40 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed description

Forty males with metabolic syndrome, sexual impotence (erectile dysfunction), and obstructive sleep apnea will be randomized to control 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 ) and study 20-patient group (also CPAP will be applied with the same protocol of control group plus lifestyle changes that will contain 3-session per-week 40-minute treadmill exercising and low-caloric/dietary 12-week restriction)

Conditions

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Metabolic Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	lifestyle changing plus CPAP	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.
OTHER	CPAP	20 males with metabolic syndrome, sexual impotence (erectile dysfunction), and obstructive sleep apnea will be in this group. in this group CPAP will be applied five days weekly during night-sleeping for 4 hours for 12 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-15
• Primary completion: 2025-09-05
• Completion: 2025-09-05
• First posted: 2025-05-07
• Last updated: 2025-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt