Clinical trial NCT00770952: Efficacy of Pioglitazone and Glimepiride Combination Therapy in Treating Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
Official title: Effects of Pioglitazone in Combination With Glimepiride in Comparison to Glimepiride Monotherapy on Metabolic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus
Keywords: Glucose Metabolism Disorder
Dysmetabolic Syndrome
Type II Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus, Lipoatrophic
Dyslipidemia
Drug Therapy
Lead sponsor: Takeda
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2008-10-10
Enrollment: 91
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 30
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of pioglitazone, once daily (QD), and glimepiride combination therapy compared to glimepiride monotherapy in subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.

Detailed description: Tight glycemic control is mandatory for the prevention and treatment of vascular complications in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus. After onset of Type 2 Diabetes, patients are usually treated with diet along with or without different combinations of oral drugs. One first-line drug class are sulfonylurea drugs that are preferably provided to patients who are not obese. The mode of action of sulfonylurea drugs is to increase beta-cell secretion, but it could be shown that they lead to deterioration of the beta-cell secretion product over time, resulting in increased proinsulin secretion. Since proinsulin is an independent cardiovascular risk factor, recent publications have demonstrated an increased risk for cardiovascular events in patients treated with sulfonylurea drugs as compared to other treatment methods.

Combination therapy of sulfonylurea drugs with glitazones has been shown to counterbalance the effect of deteriorated beta-cell secretion and to improve insulin sensitivity and the levels of proinsulin, C-peptide and other laboratory surrogate markers for cardiovascular risk. Proving that the treatment of diabetic patients with higher doses of beta cytotropic agents can be avoided and beta-cell function can be preserved by using pioglitazone in combination with low dose sulfonylurea drugs, it will be possible to optimize the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes who are not controlled efficiently by sulfonylurea drugs monotherapy.

In this study patients will be enrolled who are inefficiently treated with a Glimepiride monotherapy. Patients will be either randomized to a combinational therapy of Pioglitazone and Glimepiride or Glimepiride monotherapy. If possible, study medication will be up-titrated to maximal dosage levels in both treatment arms to observe maximal and comparable treatment effects. Stable effects on beta-cell function will be observed after 24 weeks of treatment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Type 2 Diabetes according to the American Diabetes Association Criteria.
* Treatment with Glimepiride monotherapy (1-3 mg per day) 3 months before entering the study.
* Glycosylated hemoglobin greater than 6.5%, but less than 8.5% and/ or fasting plasma glucose greater than 7 mmol/l within the last 4 weeks.
* Females of childbearing potential who are sexually active must agree to use adequate contraception, and can neither be pregnant nor lactating from Screening throughout the duration of the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Type 1 Diabetes mellitus.
* History of hypersensitivity to the study drugs or to drugs with similar chemical structures.
* Progressive fatal disease.
* History of drug or alcohol abuse during the last 5 years.
* More than one unexplained episode of severe hypoglycemia within 6 months prior to entering the study.
* A history of significant cardiovascular (New York Heart Association stage I - IV), respiratory, gastrointestinal, hepatic (alanine aminotransferase greater than 2.5 times the upper limit of the normal reference range), renal (serum creatinine greater than 1.8 mg/dl; glomerular filtration rate less than 40 ml/min as estimated by the Cockroft-Gault formula), neurological, psychiatric and/or hematological disease, history of macular edema.
* Blood donation within the last 30 days.
* Is required to take or intends to continue taking any disallowed medication, any prescription medication, herbal treatment or over-the counter medication that may interfere with evaluation of the study medication, including:

  * CYP2C9 inductors
  * CYP2C9 inhibitors
  * rifampicin
  * fluconazole
  * drugs used for treating type 2 diabetes (insulin, insulin analogous compounds and oral antidiabetic drugs)
* Pretreatment with thiazolidinediones within the last 12 months.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in Homeostatic Model Assessment - Beta cell.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in Glycosylated Hemoglobin.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in oral glucose tolerance testing.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Insulin.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Proinsulin.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in C-peptide.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in High sensitivity C-Reactive Protein.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Adiponectin.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Homeostatic Model Assessment - Sensitivity.
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Triglycerides
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Low Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in High Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
measure: Change from Baseline in Total Cholesterol
timeFrame: Week: 24 or Final Visit beyond week 12.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Villingen-Schwenningen
country: Germany
state: Baden-Württemberg
city: Aschaffenburg
country: Germany
state: Bayern
city: Ingolstadt
country: Germany
state: Bayern
city: Frankfurt
country: Germany
state: Hessen
city: Frielendorf
country: Germany
state: Hessen
city: Rotenburg
country: Germany
state: Hessen
city: Hannover
country: Germany
state: Niedersachsen
city: Dortmund
country: Germany
state: Nordrhein-Westfalen
city: Siegen
country: Germany
state: Nordrhein-Westfalen
city: Kallstadt
country: Germany
state: Rheinland-Pfalz
city: Mainz
country: Germany
state: Rheinland-Pfalz
city: Mayen
country: Germany
state: Rheinland-Pfalz
city: Neuwied
country: Germany
state: Rheinland-Pfalz
city: Rhaunen
country: Germany
state: Rheinland-Pfalz
city: Friedrichsthal
country: Germany
state: Saarland
city: Meißen
country: Germany
state: Sachsen
city: Berlin
country: Germany
Study officials:
affiliation: Takeda Pharma Gmbh, Aachen (Germany)
name: Medical Adviser Clinical Research
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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