Malignancy Meta Analysis for BRL49653

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Treatments: Drug: allocation of treatment with metformin or rosiglitazone

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT01195259

114769

Details and patient eligibility

About

Observational analyses of data from population registeries have suggested that metformin may be associated with a decreased prevalence of malignancy. The ADOPT and RECORD studies both contain groups of subjects randomly allocated to metformin and rosiglitazone. This meta-analysis combines malignancy serious adverse events from ADOPT and RECORD in order to compare their incidence on metformin with that on rosiglitazone.

Full description

The objective of this meta-analysis is to compare the incidence of malignancy (excluding non-melanomatous skin cancers) reported as serious adverse events in the ADOPT and RECORD studies between subjects randomly allocated to treatment with metformin with those allocated to rosiglitazone.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Subjects from ADOPT that are included in this meta-analysis (those in the metformin or rosiglitazone groups) had the dose of their study medication increased to a maximum of 2g (metformin) or 8mg (rosiglitazone) if their fasting plasma glucose was greater than 140mg/dl.

Subjects from RECORD that are included in this meta-analsyis entered the RECORD study taking one of three sulfonylureas (glibenclamide, gliclazide or glimepiride). They were randomly allocated to metformin or rosiglitazone in a 1:1 ration to use as add-on treatment to the background of sulfonylurea. These subjects had the dose of their study medication increased to a maximum of 2.55g (metformin) or 8mg (rosiglitazone) if their HbA1c was greater than 7.0%.

Trial design

1 participants in 2 patient groups

metformin

Description:

Subjects from ADOPT that are included in this meta-analysis were randomly allocated to receive metformin or rosiglitazone. Subjects from RECORD that are included in this meta-analysis were taking one of three sulfonylureas (glibenclamide, gliclazide or glimepiride) and were randomly allocated metformin or rosiglitazone to use as add-on treament to background sulfonylurea.

Treatment:

Drug: allocation of treatment with metformin or rosiglitazone

rosiglitazone

Description:

Subjects from ADOPT that are included in this meta-analysis were randomly allocated to receive metformin or rosiglitazone. Subjects from RECORD that are included in this meta-analysis were taking one of three sulfonylureas (glibenclamide, gliclazide or glimepiride) and were randomly allocated metformin or rosiglitazone to use as add-on treament to background sulfonylurea.

Treatment:

Drug: allocation of treatment with metformin or rosiglitazone