DementiaNCT00477828
Effect of Treating Sleep Apnea on Cognition in Patients With Dementia
A study testing Continuous positive airway pressure in people with Dementia and Sleep Apnea, run by University of California, San Diego at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether treating sleep apnea with continuous positive airway pressure would result in improvements in cognition in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 50 to 85 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Dementia, Sleep Apnea
- What is being tested?
- Continuous positive airway pressure
- Type of treatment
- Medical device
- How many people
- 61 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Apr 2000to Jan 2006
- Phase
- Interventional
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 50 to 85 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Mild probable Alzheimer's disease (diagnosed according to the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders \& Stroke-Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association [NINCDS-ADRDA] criteria).
- Mini Mental Status Exam score between 20 and 27
- Respiratory disturbance index >15 (i.e., 15 apneas plus hypopneas per hour of sleep) - Between the ages of 50-85 years
- Stable health
- reliable caregiver
- English speaking
- Patients will be allowed to continue acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, psychotropic medications, memory enhancers, health food supplements, etc. as long as they have been stable on the same dose for at least two months prior to participation and agree to continue on this dose for the duration of the study.
Who cannot join
- Currently receiving treatment for sleep apnea.
- Apneas primarily central in origin; narcolepsy or other sleep disorders
- Medication known to influence sleep (i.e. sedative hypnotics, narcotics) will be excluded if the dose can not remain stable and unchanged for the duration of the study.
- Bronchospastic and symptomatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as indicated by regular use of bronchodilators, steroids, history of carbon dioxide retention, waking hypoxemia (PaO2 <60 mmHg or SpO2 <92 % by pulse oximetry), or use of supplemental oxygen.
- Symptomatic coronary or cerebral vascular disease (history of myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks), history of life-threatening arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, history of psychosis, or current alcohol or drug abuse
- Current diagnosis of active uncontrolled seizure disorder
- Any other advanced, severe and unstable disease of any type that may put the subject at special risk or interfere with primary and secondary variable evaluations
- Change in any medication within one month of participation.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
University of California San Diego
San Diego, California, 92093
About this study
Official title: Cognitive Benefits of Treating Apnea in Dementia
The purpose of this study is to determine whether treating sleep apnea with continuous positive airway pressure would result in improvements in cognition in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Read the detailed description
Patients with sleep disordered breathing (SDB) experience nighttime sleep fragmentation and often become hypoxic during the night. The fragmentation and hypoxemia can frequently result in daytime impairments including impairments in cognitive functioning. The state-of-the-art treatment for SDB is Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). Many SDB patients who are successfully treated with CPAP show improvement in memory and other cognitive functions. Data have shown that there is a strong relationship between SDB and dementia with patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) having a high rate of SDB. This proposal will examine whether treating SDB with CPAP in patients with AD will result in improvement in cognitive functioning. The specific aims are to assess whether patients with mild AD and SDB will tolerate CPAP and be compliant with treatment; to examine the effect of CPAP treatment on SDB in patients with mild AD and SDB; to examine the effect of CPAP treatment on cognitive functioning in patients with mild AD and SDB; to examine whether improvement is greater after six weeks of CPAP treatment than after three weeks of treatment. Since caregivers are often disturbed by the patients poor sleep, we will also evaluate the effect of the patients' treatment on their caregivers. Specifically, the secondary aims are to evaluate whether caregivers feel that CPAP improves the patient's sleep and to evaluate whether caregivers feel that their own sleep improves as the patient's sleep improves. Patient identified as having mild AD and SDB will have an extensive neuropsychological battery. Half will be randomized to CPAP treatment and the other half to shamCPAP. After three weeks neuropsychological tests will be repeated. The shamCPAP will be switched to CPAP and the CPAP group will remain on CPAP for an additional three weeks. Neuropsychological tests will again be repeated. The long-term goal of this line of research is to find a new approach that might improve the quality of life, delay the dementing process, postpone institutionalization and save millions of dollars in nursing care costs.
- Conditions
- Dementia, Sleep Apnea
- Being tested
- Continuous positive airway pressure
- Keywords
- sleep apnea, dementia, excessive sleepiness, cognition
- Medical subject headings
- Dementia, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Disorders of Excessive Somnolence
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Continuous positive airway pressureDevice
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
cognitive functioning; reports of daytime sleepiness; reports of quality of sleep
Measured: three weeks
Secondary outcomes (1)
Caregivers' reports about their sleep
Measured: 3 weeks
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 May 2007 (estimated)
- Study startApr 2000
- Study completionJan 2006
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (5)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for DementiaStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Crossover
- Masking
- Single blind
- Enrolment
- 61 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Investigators
- Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD, Principal investigator, University of California, San Diego
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00477828
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- R01AG008415
- Status last verified
- May 2007
- First submitted
- 22 May 2007
- Last updated
- 24 May 2007
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Publications
Cooke JR, Liu L, Natarajan L, He F, Marler M, Loredo JS, Corey-Bloom J, Palmer BW, Greenfield D, Ancoli-Israel S. The effect of sleep-disordered breathing on stages of sleep in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Behav Sleep Med. 2006;4(4):219-27. doi: 10.1207/s15402010bsm0404_2.
PubMed 17083302Cooke JR, Loredo JS, Liu L, Marler M, Corey-Bloom J, Fiorentino L, Harrison T, Ancoli-Israel S. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and sleep architecture in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Drugs Aging. 2006;23(6):503-11. doi: 10.2165/00002512-200623060-00005.
PubMed 16872233Chong MS, Ayalon L, Marler M, Loredo JS, Corey-Bloom J, Palmer BW, Liu L, Ancoli-Israel S. Continuous positive airway pressure reduces subjective daytime sleepiness in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease with sleep disordered breathing. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006 May;54(5):777-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00694.x.
PubMed 16696743Ayalon L, Ancoli-Israel S, Stepnowsky C, Marler M, Palmer BW, Liu L, Loredo JS, Corey-Bloom J, Greenfield D, Cooke J. Adherence to continuous positive airway pressure treatment in patients with Alzheimer's disease and obstructive sleep apnea. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006 Feb;14(2):176-80. doi: 10.1097/01.JGP.0000192484.12684.cd.
PubMed 16473983Ancoli-Israel S, Palmer BW, Cooke JR, Corey-Bloom J, Fiorentino L, Natarajan L, Liu L, Ayalon L, He F, Loredo JS. Cognitive effects of treating obstructive sleep apnea in Alzheimer's disease: a randomized controlled study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008 Nov;56(11):2076-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01934.x. Epub 2008 Sep 15.
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