Dapagliflozin Efficacy and Action in NASH

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a multicentre, randomized, placebo-controlled trial to assess the efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin on improving non-alcoholic steatohepatitis as determined by liver biopsies and metabolic risk factors.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University
• Treatments: Dapagliflozin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men or women aged≥18 years;

• Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis as determined by liver biopsies within 6 months;

• Patients with T2DM at screening had to have stable glycaemic control (HbA1c <9.5%) .

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Significant alcohol consumption in the past six months (Consumed more than 20 g/day for women or 30 g/day for men);

2. A history of alcoholic liver disease, chronic viral hepatitis, drug-induced hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer;

3. Obstructive biliary disease;

4. Having any medical condition that would affect metabolism (i.e. Cushing syndrome, known hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism);

5. Poor glucose control (defined as HbA1C≤ 9.5% within 3 months) if diagnosed with T2DM, or taking any antidiabetic medication that would affect metabolism or weight loss (i.e. TZD, GLP-1, DPP-4i or initially using insulin in the past 3 months);

6. Taking any medication (i.e. cortisol, methotrexate)that would affect steatohepatitis for more than two weeks in the past year;

7. Chronic kidney disease or severe impaired renal function (serum creatinine≥ 2.0mg/dl);

8. Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) greater than 300U/L

9. A history of Type 1 diabetes;

10. A history of bladder cancer;

11. Women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant;

12. Serious medical disease with likely life expectancy less than 5 years;

13. Patients who cannot be followed for 24 months (due to a health situation or migration);

14. Participation in other clinical trial in the 30 days before randomization;

15. Patients who are unwilling or unable to give informed consent.