Open-labelled Study to Evaluate the Effect of SE5-OH Tablets on Healthy Women With Menopausal Symptoms

NCT ID: NCT06398236

Last Updated: 2025-07-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

170 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-03-17

Study Completion Date

2024-10-16

Brief Summary

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Multicentre, exploratory, prospective, open-labelled study to evaluate the efficacy of SE5-OH tablets on menopausal symptoms in healthy women experiencing menopausal symptoms after 12 weeks of administration.

The study will be performed in 10 hospitals (private and public) located in Spain. Recruitment period of 6 months will be defined in order to include up to 300 healthy volunteers from different national hospitals and clinics.

Detailed Description

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Multicentre, exploratory, prospective, open-labelled, non-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy of SE5-OH tablets for menopausal symptoms reduction. SE5-OH tablets are a food supplement containing active S-equol. The daily dose of S-equol is 10 mg in the form of 4 tablets of SE5-OH tablets.

The study will be performed in 10 hospitals (private and public) located in Spain to include up to 300 subjects in 6 months of recruitment period.

Investigators will review the medical history from healthy women with moderate to severe menopausal symptoms who are visiting the participating site, investigators will ensure that each candidate meets all the inclusion criteria and none of exclusion criteria. Suitable participants will be informed during the visit about the nature of the investigational study by receiving first information about the investigational product (food supplement) and invited to participate later when all questions have been addressed. A 14 days' period of reflexion is possible for every participant in accordance with Good Clinical Practice.

The procedures involved will be explained in detail and written consent must be obtained with subject and investigators signature before subject participation. The total duration of each participant in the study will be 16 weeks (12 weeks treatment + 4 weeks follow up). The participation in the study is completely voluntary.

The study consists of 4 visits: 3 visits until the end of treatment (EoT) with 1 follow up/end of study visit (FU/EoS) after treatment completion.

SE5-OH tablets will be administrated in tablets (4 per day) by daily oral intake until the day before the end of treatment date (week 12). Non-administrated SE5-OH tablets and VMS diary competition will be verified during the study in the corresponding visits until the EoS (visit 4).

Conditions

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Menopause

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Multicentre, exploratory, prospective, open-labelled study to evaluate the efficacy of SE5-OH tablets on menopausal symptoms in healthy women experiencing menopausal symptoms after 12 weeks of administration.
Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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SE5-OH tablets

The product under investigation is a food supplement that contains SE5-OH (Fermented Soy germ, include S-equol), Crystalline cellulose, Oats fiber, Agar, Cyclic oligosaccharide, HPMC, Reduced syrup. The food supplement is presented in sealed bottles, each bottle contains 120 tablets with the recommended daily dose of 4 tablets per day administrated orally with a glass of water. The 4 tablets can be administrated together in a unique intake or in 2 separated intakes (2 tablets/intake) along the day.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SE5-OH tablets

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

SE5-OH (Fermented Soy germ, include S-equol), Crystalline cellulose, Oats fiber, Agar, Cyclic oligosaccharide, HPMC, Reduced syrup.

Interventions

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SE5-OH tablets

SE5-OH (Fermented Soy germ, include S-equol), Crystalline cellulose, Oats fiber, Agar, Cyclic oligosaccharide, HPMC, Reduced syrup.

Intervention Type DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 45-60 years healthy women who have provided signed ICF.
* Experiencing menopause symptoms for at least 1 month.
* Total MRS score ≥9 at inclusion time (baseline).

MRS with a score equal or above 9 include women with moderate to severe menopausal symptoms according to the validated analysis of this questionnaire.

Exclusion Criteria

* Women currently receiving hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or bio identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) or have received HRT/BHRT in the last 3 months.
* Pregnant, nursing women or women planning to become pregnant\*.
* Subject with a history or presence of clinically severe disease such as hepatic, renal, endocrine, hematologic, immunologic (including chronic inflammatory conditions) and cancer disease.
* History or presence psychosomatic diseases (drug treatment), epilepsy, rheumatism.
* Allergies to soy.
* History of any food behaviour complication (lacking sufficient intake and/or over intake of food)
* Intestinal malabsorption that could decrease food supplements intestinal absorption.
* Receiving any drug during the last 3 months for menopause symptoms or any food supplement during the last 1 month that could decrease or hide/mask the effect of the experimental product.
* Participation to another clinical trial.
* Any other medical problem identified by the investigator that could alter the ability of the volunteer to participate to the study including non-treated/non controlled thyroid disease, diabetes (among others).

* A negative urine or serum pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or HCG equivalent units) must be performed prior to subject enrolment and must be negative 24 hours prior to initiation of study treatment in case of any suspicious.
Minimum Eligible Age

45 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Adknoma Health Research

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role collaborator

Nutrition & Sante Iberia

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Clínica Palacios Madrid

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

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Other Identifiers

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EQUELLE_22_01

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Identifier Source: org_study_id

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