Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Keywords: diabetes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 1049
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine if albiglutide is safe and effective in the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Albiglutide + metformin + placebo sitagliptin + placebo glimepiride arm 2: Sitagliptin + metformin + placebo albiglutide + placebo glimepiride arm 3: Glimepiride + metformin + placebo albiglutide + placebo sitagliptin arm 4: Metformin + placebo albiglutide + placebo sitagliptin + placebo glimepiride

Interventions: intervention 1: albiglutide intervention 2: sitagliptin intervention 3: glimepiride intervention 4: metformin intervention 5: placebo albiglutide intervention 6: placebo sitagliptin intervention 7: placebo glimepiride
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: albiglutide intervention 2: sitagliptin intervention 3: Glimepiride intervention 4: Metformin intervention 5: placebo to match albiglutide intervention 6: placebo to match sitagliptin intervention 7: placebo to match glimepiride

Protocol document: