Comparing Efficacy and Safety of CinnaGen-liraglutide Versus Victoza® in Patients With Type II Diabetes

NCT ID: NCT03421119

Last Updated: 2019-02-06

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-06-20

Study Completion Date

2019-12-01

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of liraglutide produced by CinnaGen company and Novo Nordisk liraglutide (Victoza®) in subjects with type II diabetes. Patients with Type II diabetes treated with two oral glucose-lowering agents for ≥ 3 months, aged between 30 to 65 years, HbA1c equal or greater than 7.5 and lower than 10, and BMI between 25 to 45 were included in this study.

This study is a phase III, randomized, two-armed, parallel, double-blind, active-controlled, and non-inferiority clinical trial. Patients who enter the trial will be randomly allocated (1:1 ratio) to receive subcutaneous 1.8 mg daily injections of either Victoza® or CinnaGen-liraglutide. Doses of liraglutide will be up-titrated from 0.6 mg/day in the first week to 1.2 mg/day in the second, third and fourth weeks up to 1.8 mg/day from the beginning of the fifth week. Patients continue to receive 1.8 mg/day liraglutide until the end 26th week.

The primary objective of this study is to assess non-inferiority of CinnaGen-liraglutide to reference liraglutide in terms of efficacy in patients with T2D. The secondary objectives of this study are to further compare the efficacy of CinnaGen-liraglutide to reference liraglutide and to assess the safety of CinnaGen-liraglutide to reference liraglutide.

Detailed Description

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The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of liraglutide produced by CinnaGen company with Novo Nordisk liraglutide (Victoza®) in subjects with type II diabetes. Patients with Type II diabetes treated with two oral glucose-lowering agents for ≥ 3 months, aged between 30 to 65 years, HbA1c equal or greater than 7.5 and lower than 10, and BMI between 25 to 45 will be included in this study. This study is a phase III, randomized, two-armed, parallel, double-blind, active-controlled, and non-inferiority clinical trial. Patients who enter the trial will be randomly allocated (1:1 ratio) to receive subcutaneous 1.8 mg daily injections of either Victoza® or CinnaGen-liraglutide. Doses of liraglutide will be up-titrated from 0.6 mg/day in the first week to 1.2 mg/day in the second, third and fourth weeks up to 1.8 mg/day from the beginning of the fifth week. Patients continue to receive 1.8 mg/day liraglutide until the end of 26th week.

Physical examinations and vital signs will be evaluated for patients at baseline, and at weeks 4, 8, 12 and 26 visits. Laboratory parameters will be assessed at baseline, week 12 and 26. The incidence of adverse events will be evaluated based on patients' reports, vital signs, physical examinations, and laboratory tests.

Before initiation, the trial will be reviewed by food and drug administration of Iran. The protocol, electronic case report form (eCRF), information for patients and informed consent form will be submitted to the ethics committees responsible for review and approval purposes, according to national regulatory guidelines.

In this study, no patient will be recruited without informed consent. All the informed consent forms which will be signed by the patients will have two copies so that patients can receive a copy of it.

Determination of sample size:

Group sample sizes of 120 and 120 achieve 80% power to detect non-inferiority using a one-sided, two-sample t-test with a non-inferiority margin of -0.4. The true difference between the means is assumed to be zero. The significance level (alpha) of the test is 0.025. The data are drawn from populations with standard deviations of 1.1 and considering a drop-out rate of 20% total sample size required is 300 patients.

Data Quality Assurance:

CinnaGen Company conducts clinical trials according to procedures that incorporate the ethical principles of GCP. Accurate and reliable data collection is assured by verification and cross-check of the eCRFs against the patient's records by clinical monitors, and the maintenance of a drug-dispensing log by the center.

CRO coordinators and sponsor attend the SIV (Site Initiation Visit) meetings. Protocol and GCP principles will be reviewed by coordinating investigator of each site, and also the needed information for completing eCRF forms will be explained.

Monitoring by CRO is performed in 30% and 70% of study progress and at the end of the study. In the monitoring sessions some sponsor personnel audit the process. During the monitoring process, CRO coordinator checks all eCRFs and confirms them to the source documents, and for required cases, the query form will be filled out.

The temperature of the refrigerator containing the medicines is checked and recorded by data logger which will be monitored regularly by the auditor.

CRO coordinator will verify drug accountability data and information about the proper time for patients' injections, and sponsor staff rechecks it.

After monitoring, problems are reported by monitor and auditor to the trial centers.

Blinding:

In order to prevent the influence of knowing intervention group on study results, the patients and those who assess the study outcomes will remain unaware of allocation to test- or reference-liraglutide.

For this purpose, patients and caregivers will be masked to allocated treatment by making reference and test products indiscernible by appearance. Medicines will be provided in a similar dosage form labeled with a unique code.

It should be noted that CRO personnel who enter data into eCRF and database and also the sponsoring personnel who monitor data entry are blinded. The study is double-blind and situations that might warrant breaking the code are defined in the protocol and include serious adverse events.

Conditions

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators

Study Groups

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CinnaGen-liraglutide

CinnaGen-liraglutide (Liraglutide 6 MG/ML Pen Injector by CinnaGen Company) will be administered 1.8 mg/day subcutaneously. Doses of CinnaGen-liraglutide will be up-titrated from 0.6 mg/day in the first week to 1.2 mg/day in the second, third and fourth weeks, up to 1.8 mg/day from the start of the fifth week to the end of 26th week. Patients in this group will continue to receive metformin along with a Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues with maximum tolerable dose.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Liraglutide 6 MG/ML Pen Injector

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients in each arm will receive either CinnaGen-liraglutide or Victoza®. Both products will be provided as pen-injector.

Metformin

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients who were receiving metformin with maximum tolerable dose prior to study will continue to receive it during the study.

Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients who were receiving Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues with maximum tolerable dose prior to study will continue to receive it during the study.

Victoza®

Victoza® (Liraglutide 6 MG/ML Pen Injector by Novo Nordisk Company) will be administered 1.8 mg/day subcutaneously. Doses of Victoza® will be up-titrated from 0.6 mg/day in the first week to 1.2 mg/day in the second, third and fourth weeks, up to 1.8 mg/day from the start of the fifth week to the end of 26th week. Patients in this group will continue to receive metformin along with a Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues with maximum tolerable dose.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Liraglutide 6 MG/ML Pen Injector

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients in each arm will receive either CinnaGen-liraglutide or Victoza®. Both products will be provided as pen-injector.

Metformin

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients who were receiving metformin with maximum tolerable dose prior to study will continue to receive it during the study.

Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues

Intervention Type DRUG

Patients who were receiving Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues with maximum tolerable dose prior to study will continue to receive it during the study.

Interventions

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Liraglutide 6 MG/ML Pen Injector

Patients in each arm will receive either CinnaGen-liraglutide or Victoza®. Both products will be provided as pen-injector.

Intervention Type DRUG

Metformin

Patients who were receiving metformin with maximum tolerable dose prior to study will continue to receive it during the study.

Intervention Type DRUG

Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues

Patients who were receiving Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues with maximum tolerable dose prior to study will continue to receive it during the study.

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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CinnaGen-liraglutide, Victoza Metformin Hydrochloride Sulfonylurea or non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Subjects with Type 2 diabetes treated with maximum tolerable dose of two oral glucose-lowering agents (OGLAs; Metformin along with a Sulfonylurea/non-sulfonylurea insulin secretagogues) for ≥ 3 months
* 30-65 years of age
* 7.5 ≤ HbA1c \< 10
* Body mass index (BMI) of 25-45 kg / m2

Exclusion Criteria

* Lack of consent for being in the trial and not complying with 26-weeks follow-up period;
* Hypersensitivity to liraglutide or any component of the formulation (excipients include Disodium phosphate dehydrate, Propylene glycol, Phenol, Water for injection)
* Insulin treatment during the previous 3 months (except short-term treatment for intercurrent illness)
* Impaired liver function (alanine aminotransferase concentrations ≥ 2·5 times upper normal range).
* Impaired renal function (eGFR \< 60 mL/min/1.73 m2),
* Uncontrolled hypertension (≥ 160/100 mmHg),
* Malignancy
* Used any drugs apart from OGLAs likely to affect glucose concentrations, including androgens, hyperglycemia-associated agents, hypoglycemia-associated agents, MAO inhibitors, quinolone antibiotics, salicylates (Anti-inflammatory dose).
* Treatment with dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP4 inhibitors)
* Treatment with systemic corticosteroids
* History or family history of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC)
* Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN2)
* History of pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis
* History of recent MI, uncontrolled CHF, and unstable Angina
* History or known case of severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy or proliferative diabetic retinopathy
* Pregnancy
* Previous exposure to exenatide or liraglutide
Minimum Eligible Age

30 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Cinnagen

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Mohammad Ebrahim Khamseh, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Endocrine Research Center, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Central Contacts

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Somayeh Amini, PharmD

Role: CONTACT

00989398079606

References

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Nauck M, Frid A, Hermansen K, Shah NS, Tankova T, Mitha IH, Zdravkovic M, During M, Matthews DR; LEAD-2 Study Group. Efficacy and safety comparison of liraglutide, glimepiride, and placebo, all in combination with metformin, in type 2 diabetes: the LEAD (liraglutide effect and action in diabetes)-2 study. Diabetes Care. 2009 Jan;32(1):84-90. doi: 10.2337/dc08-1355. Epub 2008 Oct 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 18931095 (View on PubMed)

Marre M, Shaw J, Brandle M, Bebakar WM, Kamaruddin NA, Strand J, Zdravkovic M, Le Thi TD, Colagiuri S; LEAD-1 SU study group. Liraglutide, a once-daily human GLP-1 analogue, added to a sulphonylurea over 26 weeks produces greater improvements in glycaemic and weight control compared with adding rosiglitazone or placebo in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (LEAD-1 SU). Diabet Med. 2009 Mar;26(3):268-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2009.02666.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Zinman B, Gerich J, Buse JB, Lewin A, Schwartz S, Raskin P, Hale PM, Zdravkovic M, Blonde L; LEAD-4 Study Investigators. Efficacy and safety of the human glucagon-like peptide-1 analog liraglutide in combination with metformin and thiazolidinedione in patients with type 2 diabetes (LEAD-4 Met+TZD). Diabetes Care. 2009 Jul;32(7):1224-30. doi: 10.2337/dc08-2124. Epub 2009 Mar 16.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Russell-Jones D, Vaag A, Schmitz O, Sethi BK, Lalic N, Antic S, Zdravkovic M, Ravn GM, Simo R; Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes 5 (LEAD-5) met+SU Study Group. Liraglutide vs insulin glargine and placebo in combination with metformin and sulfonylurea therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (LEAD-5 met+SU): a randomised controlled trial. Diabetologia. 2009 Oct;52(10):2046-55. doi: 10.1007/s00125-009-1472-y. Epub 2009 Aug 14.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Buse JB, Rosenstock J, Sesti G, Schmidt WE, Montanya E, Brett JH, Zychma M, Blonde L; LEAD-6 Study Group. Liraglutide once a day versus exenatide twice a day for type 2 diabetes: a 26-week randomised, parallel-group, multinational, open-label trial (LEAD-6). Lancet. 2009 Jul 4;374(9683):39-47. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60659-0. Epub 2009 Jun 8.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Esteghamati A, Zamanzadeh M, Malek M, Khaledi M, Monavari A, Najafi L, Banazadeh Z, Malboosbaf R, Aghili R, Mahdikhah S, Ganjizadeh-Zavereh H, Kafi H, Hosseinpanah F, Khamseh ME. Efficacy and Safety of a Biosimilar Liraglutide (Melitide(R)) Versus the Reference Liraglutide (Victoza(R)) in People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Noninferiority Clinical Trial. Diabetes Ther. 2023 Nov;14(11):1889-1902. doi: 10.1007/s13300-023-01462-w. Epub 2023 Sep 14.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37707701 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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LIR.CIN.MK95

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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