Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Aclidinium Bromide in the Treatment of Moderate-to-severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (LAS-MD-38)

AstraZeneca

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Treatments: Drug: Aclidinium bromide; Drug: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01045161

LAS-MD-38

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of aclidinium bromide doses compared with placebo in the treatment of moderate to severe, stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The study will be 56 weeks in duration; a 2-week run-in period followed by a 12-week double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment period. This will be followed by an open-label 40-week treatment period and a 2-week follow up phone call. All patients will receive the higher Aclidinium Bromide during the 40-week open label treatment period.

Enrollment: 544 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A diagnosis of stable moderate to severe COPD as defined by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines, 2008; postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC < 70%, and postbronchodilator FEV1 ≥ 30% and < 80% predicted
• Current or former cigarette smokers

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have been hospitalized for an acute COPD exacerbation within 3 months before the first visit
• Respiratory tract infection or COPD exacerbation in the 6 weeks before Visit 1
• Patient with any clinically significant respiratory conditions other than COPD, cardiovascular conditions or mental illness
• History or presence of asthma verified from medical records
• Chronic use of oxygen therapy greater than or equal to 15 hours per day
• Patient with uncontrolled infection due to HIV and/or active hepatitis
• Patients with a history of hypersensitivity reaction to inhaled anticholinergics
• Patients with clinically significant cardiovascular conditions, including myocardial infarction during the previous 6 months, newly diagnosed arrhythmia within the previous 3 months, unstable angina, unstable arrhythmia that had required changes in pharmacological therapy or other intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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544 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

1

Experimental group

Description:

Aclidinium bromide 200 μg dose twice per day, inhaled for 12 weeks of treatment At week 12, patients who were on Aclidinium bromide 200 μg will receive open label 400µg aclidinium bromide for 40 weeks

Treatment:

Drug: Aclidinium bromide

2

Experimental group

Description:

Aclidinium bromide 400 μg dose twice per day, inhaled for 12 weeks of treatment. At week 12, patients who were on Aclidinium bromide 400 μg will continue to receive open label 400µg aclidinium bromide for 40 weeks

Treatment:

Drug: Aclidinium bromide

3

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Dose-match placebo, oral inhalation twice per day for 12 weeks of treatment. At week 12, patients who were on placebo will receive open label 400µg aclidinium bromide for 40 weeks

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo