Conditions: Metabolism and Nutrition Disorder Obesity
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 564
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This trial is conducted in Europe. The purpose of the 20-week trial is to investigate the efficacy of liraglutide to induce body weight loss and the purpose of the extension is to evaluate the long term safety and tolerability of liraglutide.

Trial has the following trial periods: A 20-week randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, six-armed parallel-group, multi-centre, multinational trial with an open label orlistat comparator arm followed by an 84 week extension period.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Liraglutide placebo once daily, weeks 0-20 (double-blinded), extended to 52 weeks (sponsor was unblinded at 20 weeks). Subjects switched to receive liraglutide 2.4 mg once daily and then liraglutide 3.0 mg once daily in open-label extension period (weeks 52-104) arm 2: Liraglutide 1.2 mg once daily, weeks 0-20 (double-blinded), extended to 52 weeks (sponsor was unblinded at 20 weeks). Subjects switched to receive liraglutide 2.4 mg once daily and then liraglutide 3.0 mg once daily in open-label extension period (weeks 52-104) arm 3: Liraglutide 1.8 mg once daily, weeks 0-20 (double-blinded), extended to 52 weeks (sponsor was unblinded at 20 weeks). Subjects switched to receive liraglutide 2.4 mg once daily and then liraglutide 3.0 mg once daily in open-label extension period (weeks 52-104) arm 4: Liraglutide 2.4 mg once daily, weeks 0-20 (double-blinded), extended to 52 weeks (sponsor was unblinded at 20 weeks). Subjects switched to receive liraglutide 2.4 mg once daily and then liraglutide 3.0 mg once daily in open-label extension period (weeks 52-104) arm 5: Liraglutide 3.0 mg once daily, weeks 0-20 (double-blinded), extended to 52 weeks (sponsor was unblinded at 20 weeks). Subjects switched to receive liraglutide 2.4 mg once daily and then liraglutide 3.0 mg once daily in open-label extension period (weeks 52-104) arm 6: Orlistat capsules 3 times daily (3 x 120 mg) in connection with each main meal, weeks 0-20 (open-label) continued to receive Orlistat capsules 3 times daily (3 x 120 mg) in connection with each main meal in open-label extension period (weeks 20-104)

Interventions: intervention 1: liraglutide intervention 2: orlistat intervention 3: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Injected s.c. (under the skin) once daily intervention 2: 120 mg capsule. Administered thrice daily intervention 3: Injected s.c. (under the skin) once daily

Protocol document: