Effect of Rimonabant and Metformin Combination on Glycemic Control in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Stopped early · Phase 3 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

In brief

The primary objective of the study is to determine the effect of rimonabant 20 mg daily when added to ongoing metformin therapy on glycemic control (HbA1c) over a 36 week period in patients with type 2 diabetes. Secondary objectives include evaluation of other markers of glycemic control, lipid profile, body weight, and abdominal obesity. Also, the trial will study the safety of rimonabant when added to metformin over a period of 47 weeks.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00690456

Run by

Sanofi

People needed

403

Starts

2008-05-01

Expected to finish

2009-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-05-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• History of type 2 diabetes
• HbA1c between 7% to 10% at screening visit
• Treatment with metformin only with a fixed and stable dose of 1500 mg/day or more for at least the past 3 months prior to screening visit

You may not qualify if…

• Within 3 months prior to screening visit: change in lipid modifying agent, administration of systemic corticosteroids for more than 10 days, use of any anti-obesity agent or drugs for weight loss
• Weight loss of more than 5 kg within 3 months prior to screening
• Administration of other investigational drugs within 30 days prior to screening visit
• Prior exposure to type 1 cannabinoid receptor (CB1) antagonists including rimonabant
• Presence or history of cancer within the past five years
• Pregnant or breast-feeding women
• Presence of any severe medical or psychological condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, would compromise the patient's safe participation including uncontrolled serious psychiatric illness such a major depression within the last 2 years, and history of other severe psychiatric disorders.
• The above information is not intended to contain all considerations relevant to a patient's potential participation in a clinical trial.

Where it is running

• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Jakarta, Indonesia
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Vilnius, Lithuania
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — México, Mexico
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Makati City, Philippines
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Warsaw, Poland
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Bucharest, Romania
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Moscow, Russia
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Brastislava, Slovakia
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Taipei, Taiwan
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Bangkok, Thailand
• Sanofi-Aventis Administrative Office — Kiev, Ukraine

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