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Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and CPAP Treatment Response in Patients With Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

NCT02728765 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2019-05-07

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Summary

To study the frequency of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment response in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

It is hypothesized that CPAP treatment may improve the activities of NAFLD in those with concomitant OSA.

A screening study for OSA followed by a randomized controlled trial of patients with biopsy proven NAFLD being followed up at the hepatology clinic.

Home sleep study, Epworth sleepiness score (ESS), paired proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), transient elastography by fibroscan, serum cytokeratin-18 fragment, liver function tests and liver biopsy (only for those with fibroscan evidence of advanced liver fibrosis).

Patients with confirmed symptomatic OSA will be randomized to receive auto CPAP or subtherapeutic CPAP as control over 6 months.

Primary outcome: changes in intrahepatic triglyceride content (IHTG) measured by proton-MRS after 6 months of auto CPAP versus subtherapeutic CPAP.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the gold standard treatment for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In a previous trials comparing therapeutic CPAP vs subtherapeutic CPAP, CPAP could reduce 24-hour mean blood pressure in mildly sleepy patients with OSA over 3 months whereas our one-year prospective study has shown that reduction of carotid artery intima-media thickness of OSA patients occurred mostly in the first 6 months and was sustained at 12 months in patients with CPAP compliance about 4.7 hours per night.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David SC Hui, MD · Chinese University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-05
Primary Completion
2019-03-30
Completion
2019-03-30

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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