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CompletedNCT03356106Updated Dec 7, 2021

Screening and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in High-risk Pregnancy

An interventional study of Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in Sleep Apnea, Obstructive, Pre-Eclampsia and Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced, sponsored by Ramathibodi Hospital. Completed at 3 sites in Thailand. Open to female participants aged 18 Years to 50 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-12-07.

Sponsored by Ramathibodi Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 10 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Nov 2016, registered Sep 2017).

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Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
340
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 50 Years
Sex
Female
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 15 studies in Sleep Apnea, Obstructive with a site in Thailand — 4 open to participants now, 4 under way, none of them phase 3. Sleep Apnea, Obstructive · Thailand.

Enrollment
Largest of 12
340 · median 36
Started
2016
with 1 other
No phase
10 of 15
2 open now
Registered
4th of 15
by date
Lead sponsor
2 of 15
Ramathibodi Hospital

Among the 15 studies in Sleep Apnea, Obstructive with a site in Thailand, this one has the largest enrollment of the 12 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 2 that started in 2016, is one of 10 with no phase, and was the 4th registered.

Sleep Apnea, Obstructive

2,243 studies on the registry are indexed under Sleep Apnea, Obstructive; 475 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

4 of the 15 studies in Sleep Apnea, Obstructive with a site in Thailand are open now. Recruiting first, the newest first:

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Who these studies take

Of the 313 Sleep Apnea, Obstructive studies recruiting now, 146 (47%) set no upper age limit and 124 (40%) stop at 75 or younger; 52 take children under 18; 65 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years to 50 Years · female · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

This is an open-label multicenter randomized-controlled trial in 3 tertiary care hospitals including Ramathibodi Hospital, Phramongkutklao Hospital and Rajavithi Hospital. The study involved screening of obstructive sleep apnea in high risk pregnancy during 1st and 2nd trimesters. Randomization to either continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or usual antenatal care (ANC) until delivery will be done. Efficacy of CPAP on pregnancy outcome will be analysed.

Read the detailed description

Screening for sleep disordered breathing (Respiratory disturbance index, RDI ≥ 5 events/hour) with type 2 sleep test will be performed in eligible subjects during early1st trimester (\<16 weeks). Repeat sleep study will be done if the RDI in 1st trimester is less than 5. If the subjects meet the inclusion criteria without any of the exclusion criteria, randomization into either receiving CPAP treatment or usual ANC will be done. The pressure of CPAP machine is determined using autoCPAP machine algorithm at 90 percentile. Adjustment of CPAP machine is repeated at 24-28 week gestations. Subjects in both groups received standard usual care during ANC and outcomes were measured with similar case record forms.

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Conditions studied

  • Sleep Apnea, Obstructive
  • Pre-Eclampsia
  • Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced

Keywords

  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • Pre-Eclampsia
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
Female
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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High risk pregnant women attending the antenatal care at the collaborated hospitals will be eligible for the study if they meet all following inclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria (ALL criteria)

  1. Singleton pregnant women age ≥ 18 years
  2. Pregnant women attending the antenatal care and intending to deliver at one of the study hospitals with gestational age \< 16 weeks
  3. Thai nationality with ability to use Thai language proficiently both in spoken and written language.
  4. Have been diagnosed as high-risk pregnancy by Obstetricians by having any of the following conditions

    1. Chronic hypertension prior to pregnancy
    2. Hypertension during pregnancy before 20 weeks gestation.
    3. Pre-eclampsia/gestational hypertension during recent pregnancy
    4. Obesity defined by pre-pregnancy (BMI) ≥ 27.5 kg/m2
    5. History of diabetes mellitus or gestational diabetes
    6. Having gestational diabetes or overt diabetes
  5. Presence of snoring (either as frequent snoring ≥3 times/week or loud snoring) prior to or occurring during pregnancy OR respiratory disturbance index, RDI ≥ 5 events/hour by type 2 sleep testing at either point of testing during early pregnancy (0-16 GA week) or late pregnancy (GA 24-28week ).
  6. Sign written

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects' unwillingness to participate in the study at any time of the study.
  2. Subject with significant medical conditions such as status, chronic infection ( infection, tuberculosis), chronic lung and cardiac conditions, chronic renal failure, thyroid disease, or neuromuscular disease.
  3. Subjects with extremely severe obstructive sleep apnea (RDI ≥30) or with significant O2 desaturation \<80% during sleep that might have potential benefit from the CPAP treatment.
  4. Subject with known obstructive sleep apnea and currently on CPAP treatment
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(4)

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BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

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HIV

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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
340 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    CPAP

    Nocturnal administration of continuous positive airway pressure treatment (CPAP) until delivery

    Device: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)

  • No intervention
    Control

    Usual antenatal care for high risk pregnancy

Interventions

  • DeviceContinuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)

    A non-invasive positive pressure device that is used for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea by splinting the collapsed upper airway during sleep

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Measurement of blood pressure

    Difference of daytime systolic and diastolic blood pressure between 2 groups (mmHg)

    Time frame: During 24-28 weeks gestation

  2. Measurement of blood pressure

    Difference of daytime systolic and diastolic blood pressure between 2 groups (mmHg)

    Time frame: During 32-34 weeks gestation

  3. Measurement of blood pressure

    Difference of daytime mean blood pressure between 2 groups (mmHg)

    Time frame: During 24-28 weeks gestation

  4. Measurement of blood pressure

    Difference of daytime mean blood pressure between 2 groups(mmHg)

    Time frame: During 32-34 weeks gestation

  5. Measurement of blood pressure

    Difference of daytime mean blood pressure between 2 groups (mmHg)

    Time frame: During 18-20 weeks gestation

  6. Measurement of blood pressure

    Difference of daytime systolic and diastolic blood pressure between 2 groups (mmHg)

    Time frame: During 18-20 weeks gestation

Secondary outcomes

  1. 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

    Using non-invasive technique from pulse transit time (SomnoTouch NIBP) (mmHg)

    Time frame: measured twice during 24-28 week gestation, and 32-34 week gestation

  2. 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

    Using non-invasive technique from pulse transit time (SomnoTouch NIBP) (mmHg)

    Time frame: measured twice during 32-34 week gestation

  3. Incidence of pregnancy induced hypertension (composite outcome1)

    Incidence of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy

    Time frame: During pregnancy until delivery

  4. Incidence of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy or preterm labor or fetal growth restriction or emergency Cesarean section (composite outcome2)

    Incidence of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy or preterm labor or fetal growth restriction or emergency Cesarean section

    Time frame: During pregnancy until delivery

  5. Incidence of preterm labor or fetal growth restriction or severe pre-eclampsia or eclampsia or death (composite outcome3)

    Incidence of preterm labor or fetal growth restriction or severe pre-eclampsia or eclampsia or death

    Time frame: During pregnancy until delivery

  6. Fasting plasma glucose

    Fasting plasma glucose (mg/dL)

    Time frame: during 24-28 weeks gestation

  7. Fasting plasma glucose

    Fasting plasma glucose (mg/dL)

    Time frame: during 32-34 weeks gestation

  8. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)

    Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) (mg/dL)

    Time frame: during 24-28 weeks gestation

  9. Fetal ultrasound results

    Fetal growth (grams)

    Time frame: During 24-28 weeks gestation

  10. Fetal ultrasound results

    Fetal growth (grams)

    Time frame: During 32-34 weeks gestation

  11. Fetal ultrasound results

    Uterine Doppler arterial blood flow

    Time frame: During 18-20 weeks gestation

  12. Fetal ultrasound results

    Uterine Doppler arterial blood flow

    Time frame: During 24-28 weeks gestation

  13. Fetal ultrasound results

    Uterine Doppler arterial blood flow

    Time frame: During 32-34 weeks gestation

  14. Neonatal birthweight

    Neonatal birthweight (grams)

    Time frame: at delivery

  15. APGAR score

    The Apgar scale is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two, then summing up the five values thus obtained. The resulting Apgar score ranges from zero to 10. The five criteria are summarized using words chosen to form an acronym (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration). Scores 7 and above are generally normal, 4 to 6 fairly low, and 3 and below are generally regarded as critically low.

    Time frame: at 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth

  16. Neonatal length of stay in hospital

    Neonatal length of hospital stay (days) after birth until the newborn is discharged from the hospital

    Time frame: Through study completion up to 24 weeks

  17. Neonatal ICU admission rate

    Neonatal ICU admission rate (%) after birth

    Time frame: Through study completion up to 24 weeks

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Study locations

3 sites
  • Phramongkutklao Hospital
    Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
  • Rajavithi Hospital
    Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
  • Ramathibodi hospital
    Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
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References and documents

Study documents

PDFs hosted by the registry, ClinicalTrials.gov.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — For the first five years after the trial is concluded (upon acceptance of the primary manuscript for publication) the data will remain accessible only to the trial investigators for the purpose of additional analyses and publications. Thereafter other interested researchers may request in writing to the Steering Committee access to the data for the purpose of meta-analyses, with approval of a protocol and signed data access agreement via contacting the principle investigators of Division of Sleep Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Nov 2016 to primary completion in Nov 2019, 36 months.

Of 508 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Sleep Apnea, Obstructive, half reached primary completion within 33 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 17 and three quarters within 53. This study's 36 months is close to that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 624 studies reached it within 27 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 50.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Sep 26, 2017
First posted
Nov 29, 2017
StartActual
Nov 16, 2016
Primary completionActual
Nov 30, 2019
CompletionActual
Dec 31, 2019
Last update
Dec 7, 2021
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 7, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03356106
Lead sponsor
Ramathibodi Hospital
Collaborators
National Research Council of Thailand, The Development Potentials of Thai People Project, Ramathibodi hospital
Responsible party
Visasiri Tantrakul (Dr., Ramathibodi Hospital) — Principal investigator
First posted
Nov 29, 2017
Start date
Nov 16, 2016
Primary completion
Nov 30, 2019
Completion
Dec 31, 2019
Last update
Dec 7, 2021

Study contacts

Visasiri Tantrakul, MD
principal investigator · Ramathibodi Hospital Sleep Disorder Center, Pulmonary and Care division, Department of Medicine, Ramatibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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