Sleep Disordered Breathing, Obesity and Pregnancy Study (SOAP)

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Obese, Pregnancy, Sleep Disordered Breathing

In brief

The purpose of this study is to better understand how sleep apnea, a common sleep disorder in which a person has one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while sleeping, may affect pregnancy and to determine the effect of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), a treatment that uses mild air pressure to keep the airways open during sleep, for pregnant women with sleep apnea.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02086448

Run by

Francesca Facco, MD

People needed

242

Starts

2014-09-01

Expected to finish

2022-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2023-03-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• women between 14 0/7 and 20 6/7 weeks gestation at the time of their initial PSG assessment.
• Pregnancy and current BMI >=30
• Self-reported frequent snoring (>=3x/week over past month) or self-reported non-snorer.

You may not qualify if…

• diagnosis of pregestational diabetes.
• self-report a history of sleep apena and who are using or were receommended by a physican to use a PAP device already
• twins

Where it is running

• Magee-Womens Hospital of the UPMC — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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