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Liver enzymes and plasma glucose were also determined. Measurements were obtained at baseline and at the end of both treatment arms.<\/jats:p><jats:p>38 eligible patients were randomly assigned to a treatment order, with 27 patients having complete MRI\/MRS data. No significant difference was observed in subcutaneous (-28.6 cm<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>; p=0.49) or visceral (-16.8 cm<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>; p=0.59) adipose tissue, intrahepatic lipid (-0.2%; p=0.21), or fasting glucose measurements (-0.1 mmol\u00b7L<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>; p=0.46) between treatment modalities. Alkaline phosphatase decreased (-3.1 U\u00b7L<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>; p=0.02) while on therapeutic CPAP compared with sham CPAP but other liver enzymes, including aspartate aminotransferase (0.3 U\u00b7L<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>; p=0.82), alanine aminotransferase (1.34 U\u00b7L<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>; p=0.59) and \u03b3-glutamyltransferase (-2.3 U\u00b7L<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>; p=0.33), remained unchanged.<\/jats:p><jats:p>In this first randomised, sham-controlled trial, there was no change in adipose tissue distribution after 8 weeks of therapeutic CPAP compared with 8 weeks of sham CPAP. 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