Clinical Study of Diazoxide Choline Controlled-Release Tablet (DCCR) in Patients With Prader-Willi Syndrome

Essentialis

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Prader-Willi Syndrome

Treatments: Drug: DCCR; Drug: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02034071

PC025

Details and patient eligibility

About

• This is a single-center, open-label, single-arm study with a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized withdrawal extension. Patients are initiated on a DCCR dose of about 1.5 mg/kg (maximum starting dose of 145 mg) and are titrated every 14 days to about 2.4 mg/kg, 3.3 mg/kg, 4.2 mg/kg, and 5.1 mg/kg (maximum dose of 507.5 mg). These DCCR doses are equivalent to diazoxide doses of 1.03, 1.66, 2.28, 2.9, and 3.52 mg/kg. The administered dose will be as close to the mg/kg dosing as can be achieved by the available dose strengths of DCCR. Patients will be up-titrated at each visit at the discretion of the investigator. All patients will be continued in the double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized withdrawal extension. Any patient who showed an increase in resting energy expenditure and/or a reduction in hyperphagia from Baseline through Day 55 or Day 69 will be designated a responder, whereas all others will be designated non-responders. Responders will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio either to continue on active treatment at the dose they were treated with on Day 69 or to the placebo equivalent of that dose for an additional 4 weeks. Non-responders will continue open label treatment during the extension.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 22 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children. adolescents and young adults with genetically confirmed Prader-Willi syndrome
• Ages at ≥ 10 years and ≤ 22 years
• Generally healthy as documented by the medical history, physical examination, vital sign assessments, 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), and clinical laboratory assessments
• BMI exceeds the 95th percentile of the age specific BMI value on the CDC BMI charts
• Fasting glucose ≤ 126 mg/dL
• HbA1c ≤ 6.5 %

Exclusion criteria

• Administration of investigational drugs within 1 month prior to Screening Visit
• Anticipated requirement for use of prohibited medications
• History of allergic reaction or significant intolerance to: diazoxide, thiazides or sulfonamides
• Anticipate transitions in their care from family home to group home or other similar potentially disruptive changes
• Congestive heart failure or known compromised cardiac reserve
• Any other clinically significant endocrine, cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, psychiatric, hepatic, gastrointestinal, hematological, renal, or dermatological disease interfering with the assessments of the investigational drug, according to the Investigator

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

DCCR Open Label - DCCR Double Blind

Experimental group

Description:

Patients are initiated on a DCCR dose of about 1.5 mg/kg (maximum starting dose of 145 mg) and are titrated every 14 days through 4 dose levels of DCCR. Patients will be up-titrated at each visit at the discretion of the investigator. Randomized to continue DCCR, at the same dose as they received on Day 69, in the Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Withdrawal Extension

Treatment:

Drug: DCCR

DCCR Open Label - Placebo Double Blind

Experimental group

Description:

Patients are initiated on a DCCR dose of about 1.5 mg/kg (maximum starting dose of 145 mg) and are titrated every 14 days through 4 dose levels of DCCR. Patients will be up-titrated at each visit at the discretion of the investigator. Randomized to receive placebo equivalent to the DCCR dose received on Day 69 in the Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Withdrawal Extension

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo

Drug: DCCR