Clinical trial NCT01582308
Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Sponsor: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Start date: 2012-06-21; Completion date: 2012-12-14
Enrollment: 22 participants; Allocation: RANDOMIZED; Intervention model: CROSSOVER

Brief summary:
A five-period crossover study to assess and compare the trough dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-4) inhibition at 24-hours following the final morning dose for sitagliptin, saxagliptin and vildagliptin after 5 days of once daily dosing and vildagliptin after 5 days of twice daily dosing in participants with T2DM. The primary hypothesis is that following multiple daily dose administration to achieve steady-state drug concentrations, 100-mg sitagliptin will demonstrate greater DPP-4 inhibition at 24-hours after the final dose compared to 5-mg saxagliptin and 50-mg vildagliptin (once daily administration) in participants with T2DM. Each participant will receive all 5 treatments in randomized order. There will be a washout interval of at least 10 days between the last dose of study drug in one period and the first dose of study drug in the following period.

Detailed description:

Arms: arm 1: Sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 1 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 2 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 3 followed by placebo in Period 4 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 5 arm 2: Saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 1 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 2 followed by placebo in Period 3 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 4 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 5 arm 3: Vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 1 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 2 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 3 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 4 followed by placebo in Period 5 arm 4: Vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 1 followed by placebo in Period 2 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 3 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 4 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 5 arm 5: Placebo in Period 1 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 2 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 3 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 4 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 5 arm 6: Sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 1 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 2 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 3 followed by placebo in Period 4 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 5 arm 7: Saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 1 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 2 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 3 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 4 followed by placebo in Period 5 arm 8: Vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 1 followed by placebo in Period 2 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 3 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 4 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 5 arm 9: Vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 1 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 2 followed by placebo in Period 3 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 4 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 5 arm 10: Placebo in Period 1 followed by saxagliptin 5 mg in Period 2 followed by sitagliptin 100 mg in Period 3 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg BID in Period 4 followed by vildagliptin 50 mg in Period 5
Interventions: intervention 1: Sitagliptin 100 mg intervention 2: Saxagliptin 5 mg intervention 3: Vildagliptin 50 mg intervention 4: Vildagliptin 50 mg BID intervention 5: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Sitagliptin 100 mg: one sitagliptin 100 mg tablet once daily in the morning following a fast of at least approximately 8 hours on Days 1 through 5 in one out of five treatment periods. intervention 2: Saxagliptin 5 mg: one saxagliptin 5 mg tablet once daily in the morning following a fast of at least approximately 8 hours on Days 1 through 5 in one out of five treatment periods. intervention 3: Vildagliptin 50 mg: one vildagliptin 50 mg tablet once daily in the morning following a fast of at least approximately 8 hours on Days 1 through 5 in one out of five treatment periods. intervention 4: Vildagliptin 50 mg BID: one vildagliptin 50 mg tablet BID (twice daily), once in the morning following a fast of at least approximately 8 hours and once in the evening on Days 1 through 5 in one out of five treatment periods. intervention 5: Placebo: one placebo for sitagliptin tablet once daily in the morning following a fast of at least approximately 8 hours on Days 1 through 5 in one out of five treatment periods.

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