Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Multiple Rising Oral Doses of BI 44847 in Female and Male Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Boehringer Ingelheim

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 1

Conditions

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Treatments

Drug: Placebo

Drug: BI 44847

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT02211963

1224.3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of BI 44847 following administration of multiple rising oral doses over 8 days in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Enrollment

48 patients

Sex

All

Ages

21 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Male and postmenopausal or hysterectomised female patients with proven diagnose of type 2 diabetes mellitus treated with diet and exercise only or with one oral hypoglycaemic agents besides glitazones
Glycosylated haemoglobin A1 (HbA1c) ≤ 8.5 % at screening for patients treated with diet and exercise and/or one oral hypoglycaemic agent
Age ≥21 and Age ≤70 years (female hysterectomised and male patients) Age ≥60 and Age ≤70 years (female postmenopausal patients)
BMI ≥18.5 and BMI ≤35 kg/m2 (Body Mass Index)
Signed and dated written informed consent prior to admission to the study in accordance with Good Clinical Practice and the local legislation

Exclusion criteria

Any finding of the medical examination (including BP, PR and ECG) deviating from normal and of not acceptable clinical relevance
Clinically relevant concomitant diseases like renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance < 80 ml/min/173m**2), cardiac insufficiency New York Heart Association II-IV, myocardial infarction, other known cardiovascular diseases including hypertension > 160/95mmHg, stroke and Transient ischemic attack
Gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunological or hormonal disorders besides type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and medically treated hypertension
Diseases of the central nervous system (such as epilepsy) or psychiatric disorders or relevant neurological disorders besides polyneuropathy
Chronic or relevant acute infections (e.g. HIV, Hepatitis)
History of relevant allergy/hypersensitivity (including allergy to drug or its excipients
Intake of drugs with a long half-life (> 24 hours) within at least one month or less than 10 half-lives of the respective drug prior to administration or during the trial except allowed co-medication
Use of drugs and/or food which might reasonably influence the results of the trial based on the knowledge at the time of protocol preparation within 10 days prior to administration or during the trial
Antidiabetic treatment with more than one oral hypoglycaemic agent or insulin or glitazones
Participation in another trial with an investigational drug within two months prior to administration or during the trial
Smoker (> 10 cigarettes or > 3 cigars or > 3 pipes/day)
Inability to refrain from smoking on trial days
Alcohol abuse (more than 40 g/day = 5 units/day)
Drug abuse
Blood donation (more than 100 mL within four weeks prior to administration or during the trial)
Excessive physical activities (within one week prior to administration or during the trial)
Use of drugs which might reasonably influence the results of the trial or that prolong the QT/QTc interval based on the knowledge at the time of protocol preparation within 10 days prior to administration or during the trial
Any laboratory value outside the reference range and the clinical relevance is not acceptable (or the value is more than three times higher than the upper limit of the normal range e.g. liver enzymes)
Change of drug dosing of allowed co-medication (anti-hypertensive agents, acetylic salicylic acid and statins) within the last 3 months
Fasted blood glucose > 240 mg/dl (>13.3 mmol/L) on two consecutive days during washout
Serum creatinine above upper limit of normal at screening
Male patients not willing to use adequate contraception (condom use plus another form of contraception e.g. spermicide, oral contraceptive taken by female partner, sterilisation, intrauterine device) during the whole study period from the time of the first intake of study drug until one month after the last intake
A marked baseline prolongation of QT/QTc interval (e.g., repeated demonstration of a QTc interval >450 ms)
A history of additional risk factors for torsade de pointes (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of Long QT Syndrome)