Effect of continuous positive airway pressure on blood pressure: a placebo trial

JE Dimsdale, JS Loredo, J Profant - Hypertension, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
airway pressure (CPAP) treatment on blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
… For this reason, we performed a double-blind placebo trial of CPAP versus placebo CPAP

Effect of continuous positive airway pressure vs placebo continuous positive airway pressure on sleep quality in obstructive sleep apnea

S Ancoli-Israel, JE Dimsdale - Chest, 1999 - Elsevier
… To determine the effectiveness of CPAP in improving sleep quality in patients with OSA, we
… to receive CPAP or placebo CPAP in a double-blind fashion. We hypothesized that CPAP

Randomized placebo-controlled trial of continuous positive airway pressure on blood pressure in the sleep apnea–hypopnea syndrome

JF Faccenda, TW Mackay, NA Boon… - American Journal of …, 2001 - atsjournals.org
placebo tablets (ESS, Jenkinson and coworkers [4] baseline 15, sham CPAP 13; Engleman
and coworkers [5] baseline 13, placebo … ” effect of a sham CPAP placebo that our tablet lacks…

Randomised placebo controlled trial of daytime function after continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome

HM Engleman, SE Martin, RN Kingshott, TW Mackay… - Thorax, 1998 - thorax.bmj.com
… All patients spent four weeks on CPAP therapy and four weeks on oral placebo treatment, …
told the placebo tablet might improve upper airway function. Average effective CPAP use was …

Effect of continuous positive airway pressure and placebo treatment on sympathetic nervous activity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

MG Ziegler, PJ Mills, JS Loredo, S Ancoli-Israel… - Chest, 2001 - Elsevier
airway pressure (CPAP) treatment of sleep apnea. While these studies have not been placebo
… notoriously responsive to placebo treatment, and a prescription for a mask attached to a …

The impact of continuous positive airway pressure on blood pressure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: evidence from a meta-analysis of placebo …

P Haentjens, A Van Meerhaeghe… - Archives of internal …, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
CPAP vs placebo in patients with OSAS specifically reporting 24-hour ambulatory mean
blood pressure … Thus 12 RCTs of CPAP vs placebo, all published in english, were included in …

Sham continuous positive airway pressure for placebo-controlled studies in sleep apnoea

R Farré, L Hernández, JM Montserrat, M Rotger… - The Lancet, 1999 - thelancet.com
… Given the lack of placebo-controlled studies together with the costs of CPAP, the usefulness
of CPAP has been called into question .We designed a method of sham CPAP for placebo-…

Randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial of continuous positive airway pressure for mild sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome

HM Engleman, RN Kingshott, PK Wraith… - American journal of …, 1999 - atsjournals.org
… The current treatment of choice for SAHS, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
therapy, was employed in a pilot placebo-controlled, randomized study in 16 patients with mild …

Effect of continuous positive airway pressure versus supplemental oxygen on sleep quality in obstructive sleep apnea: A placebo-CPAP− Controlled study

JS Loredo, S Ancoli-Israel, EJ Kim, WJ Lim… - Sleep, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… comparison with CPAP therapy, … CPAP or supplemental oxygen, delivered via placebo-CPAP
set-up, on sleep quality in patients with OSA in a randomized double-blind placebo-CPAP–…

A randomized controlled trial of continuous positive airway pressure in mild obstructive sleep apnea

M Barnes, D Houston, CJ Worsnop… - American journal of …, 2002 - atsjournals.org
airway pressure (CPAP) treatment in mild OSA we undertook a randomized controlled cross-over
trial of CPAP in patients with an apnea– … oral placebo rather than sham CPAP because …