Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Keywords: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus elderly patients saxagliptin randomised double-blind
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 957
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study will evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of saxagliptin compared to glimepiride in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who have inadequate glycaemic control on metformin monotherapy.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Saxagliptin 5 mg arm 2: Glimepiride 1 - 6 mg

Interventions: intervention 1: Saxagliptin intervention 2: Glimepiride
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 5 mg, oral tablet, once daily intervention 2: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 mg, oral encapsulated tablet, once daily

Protocol document: