Conditions: Painful Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Enrollment: 306
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is to test the effectiveness of pregabalin in treating nerve pain caused by diabetes. The suitable subjects will be patients who also use an non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug for another pain which is not related to the diabetic nerve pain.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: pregabalin intervention 2: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 150 - 300 mg/day in divided dose (3 time a day) for 6 weeks intervention 2: matching placebo 3 time a day

Protocol document: