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Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00544518
Date of registration: 15/10/2007
Primary sponsor: Fourth Military Medical University
Public title: Impact of Benfluorex Versus Metformin on Glucose Control and Insulin Secretion in Chinese Type 2 Diabetic Patients
Scientific title:
Date of first enrolment: October 2007
Target sample size: 240
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00544518
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Countries of recruitment
China
Contacts
Name:   Ji qiuhe, Ph.D
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Fourth Military Medical University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- For inclusion in the study, participants will be;? Antidiabetic drugs naïve Type 2
diabetes mellitus(WHO standard) with diet control more than 2 weeks; ?or diagnosed
Type 2 diabetes mellitus with no oral antidiabetic drugs more than 6months; ?or Type
2 diabetes mellitus treated with insulin secretagogues more than 1 month; all
patients have HbA1c between 7.0-10.0% and fasting glucose between
7.0mmol/L~13.0mmol/L.

- Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years --70 Years, Genders:Both

- BMI: 23~40kg/m2

- No using insulin before 3 months

- Consent to do birth control to Women of child-bearing age

- Volunteer to join and sign Information consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with ketoacidosis?hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome.

- Patients with severe diabetic complications

- Patient with acute cardiovascular diseases,acute cerebrovascular diseases,with
Vitamin B12?folic acid and iron deficiency,with severe trauma or surgery,severe
infection diseases.

- Allergy to benfluorex or metformin

- ALT?AST> 2 times of upper normal limit,Cr> upper normal limit.

- Having used benfluorex within 3 months before recruiting.

- Patients accepting steroid hormones or malignant tumor treatment

- Patients with drug abuse or bibulous history.

- Patients with severe unconscious low blood glucose history,severe mental illness
history and family history

- Severe hypertensive patients(SBP>160 mmHg,DBP>95mmHg)

- Patient with pancreas diseases.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Type 2 Diabetes
Intervention(s)
Drug: benfluorex
Drug: metformin
Primary Outcome(s)
The change of HbA1c from baseline to the end of treatment [Time Frame: 16 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
the changes of fasting and after standard meal glucose and insulin level and plasma lipid level [Time Frame: 16 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
bfls071012
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Beijing Army General Hospital
Beijing Haijinge medicine Science-tech CO.,LTD(CRO)
Bethune International Peace Hospital
Center for Drug Clincal Reserch Shanghai University of TCM
Second Hospital of Jilin University
Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical Company Limited in China
The People's Hospital of Hebei Province
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