Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Saxagliptin in Combination With Metformin IR Compared to Saxagliptin Monotherapy and to Metformin IR Monotherapy in Drug Naive Chinese Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes Who Have Inadequate Glycaemic Control

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Controlled, Phase 3 Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Saxagliptin in Combination with Metformin IR as Initial Therapy Compared to Saxagliptin Monotherapy and to Metformin IR Monotherapy in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes who have Inadequate Glycaemic Control

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: AstraZeneca
• Treatments: Metformin; Saxagliptin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus; 2. HbA1c ≥8% but ≤12%; 3.Fasting C-peptide ≥1.0 ng/ml; 4. Subject will be drug naïve; 5. Body mass index ≤40 kg/m2.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Symptoms of poorly controlled diabetes; 2. Chronic or repeated intermittent corticosteroid treatment ; 3. Calculated creatinine clearance <60 ml/min or serum creatinine >132.6 μmol/L (>1.5 mg/dL) for men, >123.8 μmol/L (>1.4 mg/dL) for women; 4. Creatine Kinase ≥3x ULN; 5.Abnormal TSH value at screening will be further evaluated by free T4, subjects with an abnormal free T4 will be excluded; 6. History of administration of any antihyperglycaemic therapy for a total of 28 days or for more than three consecutive days or a total of seven non-consecutive days during the eight weeks prior to screening; 7. Current treatment with a strong CYP3A4/5 inhibitor; 8. Prior treatment with saxagliptin or any DPP-4 inhibitor; 9. Significant or history of cardiovascular disease, renal disease, psychiatric disorders, Immunocompromised individuals, hemoglobinopathies, liver disease, Pancreatitis.