Changing Lifestyle in OSA Males Who Suffer Metabolic Syndrome and Impotence: Is There a Response?

Effect of Addition of Changing Lifestyle to CPAP in OSA Males Who Suffer Metabolic Syndrome and Impotence

The problems like metabolic syndrome and sexual impotence in males with obstructive sleep apnea are common. continuous passive airway pressure (CPAP) is an authorized treatment for this type of apnea but still the recommendations of changing lifestyles are the suggested cornerstone therapies especially in obese males

Forty males with metabolic syndrome, sexual impotence (erectile dysfunction), and obstructive sleep apnea will be randomized to control group (CPAP will be applied in this group that will contain 20 males, CPAP will be applied five days weekly during night-sleeping for 4 hours for 12 weeks ) and study 20-patient group (also CPAP will be applied with the same protocol of control group plus lifestyle changes that will contain 3-session per-week 40-minute treadmill exercising and low-caloric/dietary 12-week restriction)

Inclusion Criteria:

• moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnea
• erectile dysfunction (mild and moderate)
• metabolic syndrome men

Exclusion Criteria:

• cardiac patients
• psychiatric men
• autoimmune diseased men
• renal diseased men