Malignancy Meta Analysis for BRL49653

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Observational analyses of data from population registeries have suggested that metformin may be associated with a decreased prevalence of malignancy. The ADOPT and RECORD studies both contain groups of subjects randomly allocated to metformin and rosiglitazone. This meta-analysis combines malignancy serious adverse events from ADOPT and RECORD in order to compare their incidence on metformin with that on rosiglitazone.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline
• Treatments: Gliclazide; Glimepiride; Glyburide; Metformin; Rosiglitazone

Criteria

Subjects from ADOPT that are included in this meta-analysis (those in the metformin or rosiglitazone groups) had the dose of their study medication increased to a maximum of 2g (metformin) or 8mg (rosiglitazone) if their fasting plasma glucose was greater than 140mg/dl.

Subjects from RECORD that are included in this meta-analsyis entered the RECORD study taking one of three sulfonylureas (glibenclamide, gliclazide or glimepiride). They were randomly allocated to metformin or rosiglitazone in a 1:1 ration to use as add-on treatment to the background of sulfonylurea. These subjects had the dose of their study medication increased to a maximum of 2.55g (metformin) or 8mg (rosiglitazone) if their HbA1c was greater than 7.0%.