Efficacy and Safety of QVA149 in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Completed · Phase 2 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

In brief

This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of QVA149 in patients with moderate to severe COPD.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00570778

Run by

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

People needed

154

Starts

2007-12-01

Expected to finish

2008-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-26

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Male or female adults aged ≥40 years, who have signed an Informed Consent Form prior to initiation of any study-related procedure.
• Patients with moderate to severe stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) according to the Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Guidelines 2006.
• Patients who have smoking history of at least 10 pack years.
• Patients with a post-bronchodilator Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second (FEV1) ≥30% and < 80% of the predicted normal and post-bronchodilator FEV1/Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) <0.70.

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant or nursing women, or women of child-bearing potential, regardless of whether or not sexually active if they are not using acceptable methods of contraception.
• Patients requiring long term oxygen therapy (> 15 hours a day) on a daily basis for chronic hypoxemia, or who have been hospitalized or visited an emergency department for a COPD exacerbation or as result of their airways disease in the 6 weeks prior to screening.
• Patients who have had a respiratory tract infection within 6 weeks prior to screening.
• Patients with concomitant pulmonary disease, pulmonary tuberculosis (unless confirmed by chest x-ray to be no longer active) or clinically significant bronchiectasis.
• Patients with any history of asthma indicated by (but not limited to) a blood eosinophil count > 400/mm3.
• Patients who, in the judgment of the investigator or the responsible Novartis personnel, have a clinically relevant laboratory abnormality or a clinically significant condition.
• Patients with uncontrolled Type I and Type II diabetes.
• History of malignancy of any organ system (including lung cancer), treated or untreated, within the past 5 years.
• Patients who are contraindicated for or who have shown an untoward reaction to inhaled anticholinergic agents.
• Patients with a history of long QT syndrome or whose QTc interval (Fridericia method) measured at screening is prolonged (>450 ms for males or >470 ms for females).
• Patients with a history of untoward reactions to sympathomimetic amines, inhaled medication or any component thereof, or any of the study drugs or drugs with similar chemical structures.
• Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.

Where it is running

• Novartis Investigator Site — St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Novartis Investigator Site — Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
• Novartis Investigator site — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
• Novartis Investigator Site — Antwerp, Belgium
• Novartis Investigator Site — Ghent, Belgium
• Novartis Investigator Site — Jambes, Belgium
• Novartis Investigator Site — Sankt Vith, Belgium
• Novartis Investigator Site — Moncton, Canada
• Novartis Investigator Site — Montreal, Canada
• Novartis Investigator site — Toronto, Canada
• Novartis Investigator Site — Bad Wörishofen, Germany
• Novartis Investigator Site — Berlin, Germany
• Novartis Investigator Site — Frankfurt, Germany
• Novartis Investigator Site — Mainz, Germany
• Novartis Investigator Site — Rüdersdorf, Germany
• Novartis Investigator Site — Wiesbaden, Germany
• Novartis Investigator Site — Almelo, Netherlands
• Novartis Investigator Site — Breda, Netherlands
• Novartis Investigator site — Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Novartis investigator site — Heerlen, Netherlands
• Novartis Investigator Site — Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Novartis Investigator Site — Veldhoven, Netherlands

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