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

NCT06960746 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-05-07

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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

Conditions

Interventions

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ali MA Ismail, lecturer · Cairo University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-15
Primary Completion
2025-09-05
Completion
2025-09-05

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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