Conditions: Asthma
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 389
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This is a 6 week study to investigate the effectiveness and safety of BI 671800 ED in patients with asthma who do not take inhaled corticosteroids.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Patients receive BI 671800 (low dose) capsules twice daily arm 2: Patients inhale from Fluticasone propionate metered dose inhaler (MDI) twice daily arm 3: Patients receive placebo capsules twice daily arm 4: Patients receive BI 671800 (medium dose) capsules twice daily arm 5: Patients receive BI 671800 (high dose) capsules twice daily

Interventions: intervention 1: BI 671800 intervention 2: Fluticasone propionate placebo intervention 3: Fluticasone propionate intervention 4: BI 671800 Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: BI 671800 intervention 2: Placebo matching Fluticasone propionate intervention 3: Fluticasone propionate intervention 4: Placebo matching BI 671800

Protocol document: