Conditions: Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 404
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This trial is conducted in Europe. The aim of the trial is to investigate the efficacy and safety of liraglutide versus lixisenatide as add-on to metformin in subjects with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: liraglutide intervention 2: lixisenatide
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Starting dose of 0.6 mg/day, with weekly dose escalations of 0.6 mg/day until the maintenance dose of 1.8 mg/day is reached. Administered s.c. (subcutaneously, under the skin) once daily in addition to the subject's stable pre-trial metformin (equal to or above 1000 mg/day and up to 3000 mg/day). intervention 2: Starting dose of 10 microg to be administered s.c. once daily, within the hour prior to the first meal of the day or the evening meal in addition to subject's stable pre-trial metformin (equal to or above 1000mg/day and up to 3000mg/day). Dose escalation to 20 microg s.c. once daily from day 15 after randomization.

Protocol document: