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CompletedNCT03571477ApneaBandUpdated Jan 4, 2019

Sleep Apnea : Diagnosis and Monitoring

An observational study in Obstructive Sleep Apnea, sponsored by University Hospital, Grenoble. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-01-04.

Sponsored by University Hospital, Grenoble · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
45
Ages
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This prospective study aims to evaluate a new medical screening method to detect and discriminate sleep apnea-hypopnea events. A new device called ApneaBand will be tested to propose a new screening method facilitating the diagnosis and monitoring of the sleep apnea syndrom, still underdiagnosed. This device will be tested in comparison with polysomnography (PSG), the gold standard reference method of sleep apnea diagnosis.

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The objective of this study is to dertermine the performance of the ApneaBand, a new non-intrusive and portable device, in detecting sleep apnea, in comparison with PSG.

40 apneic and non apneic subjects will wear the ApneaBand recording the different sleep stages and the occurency of apnea-hypopnea sleep events through four sensors including oximetry (oxygen saturation), photoplethysmography (pulse wave), electrodermal activity and tri-axial accelerometer (movements).

Inclusion visit will be proceeded at the University Hospital Grenoble-Alpes ; polysomnography and mesures by the ApneaBand will be proceeded at the patient's home by IC@dom. Patients will be equiped with PSG + ApneaBand during the first night and with ApneaBand only the second night.

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Conditions studied

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Keywords

  • Sleep apnea diagnosis
  • Sleep apnea monitoring
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In context

Apnea

1,422 studies on the registry are indexed under Apnea; 159 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 45 is below the median of 106 across 386 observational studies indexed under Apnea.

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Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Grenoble is the lead sponsor of 815 studies on the registry; 205 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

  • Patients with OSA and not treated for that
  • Non apneic subjects or unknown apneic subjects wishing to explore their sleep
  • Different skin tones from Fitzpatrick's phototypes I to VI.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), diagnosed by polygraphy or PSG for less than 2 years, and not treated for that.
  • Non apneic person (Berlin score = 0 or 1)
  • Person be able to use the personal health monitoring device ApneaBand
  • Be legally able to give consent
  • Person affiliated to social security

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patient already treated for OSA
  • Patient equipped with an electric medical device (non-exhaustive examples: cardiac pace maker, cochlear implant, neuro-stimulator)
  • Being unable to understand and to follow recommendations for the study due to cognition or language problems
  • Pregnant women, feeding and parturient
  • Person under administrative or judicial control, or who is protected under the act
  • Person in exclusion period for another study
  • Person which would perceive more than 4500 euros of compensation because of its participation in other clinical studies in 12 months preceding this study
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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrollment
45 participants (actual)
Target follow-up
1 Month
Patient registry
Yes

Interventions

  • DeviceApneaBand

    Mesure of oxygen saturation (oximetry), pulse wave (photoplethysmography), electrodermal activity and movements (tri-axial accelerometer)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Performance of the ApneaBand to detect sleep apnea

    Performance of the ApneaBand device in detecting moderate to severe sleep apnea (defined by an Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) ≥ 15 events/hour), in comparison with PSG

    Time frame: 3 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Performance of the ApneaBand to mesure the apnea severity

    Performance of the ApneaBand device in detecting sleep apnea according to its severity (2 pre-specified thresholds of AHI: \> 5 and ≥ 30), in comparison with PSG

    Time frame: 3 days

  2. External reproductibility of AHI measurement by the ApneaBand

    Reproducibility between AHI from polysomnography and ApneaBand

    Time frame: 3 days

  3. Internal reproductibility of AHI measurement by the ApneaBand

    Reproducibility between different AHI mesures from ApneaBand

    Time frame: 3 days

  4. ApneaBand algorith validation for AHI measurement

    External validation of the ApneaBand algorithm

    Time frame: 3 days

  5. Sleep stage detection by ApneaBand

    To assess if electrodermal activity assessed by the ApneaBand during sleep is able to differerenciate the different sleep stages

    Time frame: 3 days

  6. Skin tone variability

    To asses if oxygen saturation assessed by the ApneaBand could be performed in persons with dark skin tones

    Time frame: 3 days

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Study locations

1 site
  • Chu Grenoble-Alpes
    La Tronche, Isère 38700, France
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 4, 2019, 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
NCT03571477
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Grenoble
Collaborators
Commissariat A L'energie Atomique, AIRFAN, AGIR à Dom
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 27, 2018
Start date
Jun 15, 2018
Primary completion
Dec 17, 2018
Completion
Dec 17, 2018
Last update
Jan 4, 2019

Study contacts

Jean-Louis PEPIN, Pr
principal investigator · CHU Grenoble Alpes

Oversight

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