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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 25 February 2013
Main ID:  NCT00777985
Date of registration: 22/10/2008
Primary sponsor: University Hospital, Grenoble
Public title: Preventive Effects of Bosentan on the Systemic Cardiovascular Consequence of Sleep Apnea BOSAS
Scientific title: Cardiovascular Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): Role of Endothelin and Preventive Effects of Bosentan
Date of first enrolment: December 2007
Target sample size: 28
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00777985
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
France
Contacts
Name:   Marie FAURE, PharmD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone: 33 4 76 63 74 75
Email: marie.faure@ujf-grenoble.fr
Affiliation: 
Name:   Marie FAURE, PharmD, PhD
Address: 
Telephone: 33 476 63 74 75
Email: marie.faure@ujf-grenoble.fr
Affiliation: 
Name:   Sandrine H Launois, MD PhD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  University Hospital, Grenoble
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Documented obstructive sleep apnea

- with untreated mild systemic hypertension

Exclusion Criteria:

- pregnancy or lactation

- daytime alveolar hypoventilation

- severe arterial hypertension (systolic pressure > 180 mmHg; diastolic pressure > 110
mmHg)

- treatment with anti-hypertensive drugs

- cardiovascular disorder other than mild hypertension

- severe daytime sleepiness (score on the EPWORTH sleepiness scale =15) or at-risk
occupation

- contra-indication to nCPAP treatment

- known allergy to bosentan

- active treatment with a drug whose efficacy is reduced by cytochromes P450, 2C9, 3A4
and2C19 isoenzyme activation

- active treatment with a drug acting on systemic arterial blood pressure or
endothelial function

- liver or kidney dysfunction



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 80 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Hypertension
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Intervention(s)
Device: nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
Drug: bosentan
Primary Outcome(s)
24 hour mean diastolic blood pressure [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
carotid Intima Media Thickness [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
Circulating Big ET1 and ET1 levels [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
Circulating inflammation markers (RANTES, MCP-1, TNF-alpha, INF-gamma, IL-6, IL-10 and TGF-gamma [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
mean 24 hour nocturnal blood pressure [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
mean 24 hour systemic systolic blood pressure [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
Peripheral Arterial Tonometry measure [Time Frame: before and after each treatment completion (4 weeks)]
Secondary ID(s)
0722
2007-005333-11
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Actelion
Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
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