InterdisciplinaryWeight Loss and Lifestyle Intervention for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Adults: Rationale, Design and Methodology of the INTERAPNEA Study Carneiro Barrera, Almudena Amaro Gahete, Francisco José Díaz Román, Amparo Guillén Riquelme, Alejandro Jurado Fasoli, Lucas Sáez Roca, Germán Martín Carrasco, Carlos Ruiz Ruiz, Jonatan Buela Casal, Gualberto Obstructive sleep apnoea Apnoea-hypopnoea index Obesity Weight loss Interdisciplinary lifestyle intervention Nutrition Sleep hygiene Obesity is a major risk factor for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), the most common sleep-disordered breathing related to neurocognitive and metabolic syndromes, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Although strongly recommended for this condition, there are no studies on the e ectiveness of an interdisciplinary weight loss and lifestyle intervention including nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, and smoking and alcohol cessation. INTERAPNEA is a randomised controlled trial with a two-arm parallel design aimed at determining the e ects of an interdisciplinary tailored weight loss and lifestyle intervention on OSA outcomes. The study will include 84 males aged 18–65 with a body mass index of 25 kg/m2 and severe to moderate OSA randomly assigned to usual care (i.e., continuous positive airway pressure), or interdisciplinary weight loss and lifestyle intervention combined with usual care. Outcomes will be measured at baseline, intervention end-point, and six-month post-intervention, including apnoea-hypopnoea index (primary outcome), other neurophysical and cardiorespiratory polysomnographic outcomes, sleep quality, daily functioning and mood, body weight and composition, physical fitness, blood biomarkers, health-related quality of life, and cost-e ectiveness. INTERAPNEA may serve to establish a cost-e ective treatment not only for the improvement of OSA and its vast and severe comorbidities, but also for a potential remission of this condition. 2019-10-23T09:38:12Z 2019-10-23T09:38:12Z 2019-09-15 journal article Carneiro-Barrera, A., Amaro-Gahete, F. J., Díaz-Román, A., Guillén-Riquelme, A., Jurado-Fasoli, L., Sáez-Roca, G., ... & Buela-Casal, G. (2019). Interdisciplinary Weight Loss and Lifestyle Intervention for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Adults: Rationale, Design and Methodology of the INTERAPNEA Study. Nutrients, 11(9), 2227. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57471 10.3390/nu11092227 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ open access Atribución 3.0 España MDPI