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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00135460
Date of registration: 25/08/2005
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Danish HIV Research Group
Public title: Comparing a Nucleoside-Analogue-Sparing Regimen and a Protease-Inhibitor-Sparing Regimen in HIV Infected Patients
Scientific title: Comparing a Nucleoside-Analogue-Sparing Regimen and a Protease-Inhibitor-Sparing Regimen in Patients With HIV. Influence on Morphological and Metabolic Disorders. A Randomized, Open-Label Multicenter Trial.
Date of first enrolment: June 2003
Target sample size: 100
Recruitment status: Active, not recruiting
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00135460
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name:     Henrik Nielsen, M.D.,DMSc
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Affiliation:  Aalborg Universitetshospital
Name:     Jan Gerstoft, M.D., DMSc
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Affiliation:  Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Name:     Lars Mathiesen, M.D.,DMSc
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Affiliation:  Hvidovre University Hospital
Name:     Court Pedersen, Professor
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Affiliation:  Odense University Hospital
Name:     Alex Laursen, M.D., DMSc
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Affiliation:  Aarhus University City
Name:     Ann-Brit E Hansen, M.D.
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Affiliation:  Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet and Odense University Hospital
Name:     Niels Obel, M.D., DMSc
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Affiliation:  Odense University Hospital
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Antiretroviral naïve patients

- HIV-1 infection as documented by a licensed HIV-1 antibody ELISA.

- Fulfilling the criteria for starting antiretroviral therapy.

- Ability to understand and provide written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Women being pregnant or breast-feeding.

- Fertile women using no safe contraception.

- Patients with active intravenous drug use.

- Abuse of alcohol, which in the opinion of the treating physician will reduce the
patient´s ability to follow a therapeutic regimen and evaluations of the protocol.

- Ongoing medical treatment, which has a clinically significant interaction with
lopinavir, ritonavir or efavirenz.

- Creatinine > 200 mmol/l.

- ALT or AST > 5 times upper normal value (200U/l).



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome
Intervention(s)
Drug: nucleoside analogue sparing HAART regimen
Primary Outcome(s)
Changes in peripheral fat mass, determined by DEXA-changes
Change from baseline in fasting lipids and subsets hereof
Changes in body composition from baseline, determined by patient and physician in a standardized questionnaire and by standardized clinical examination
Development of impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance
Secondary Outcome(s)
Incidence of clinical disease progression
Change in CD4 cell count from baseline after 24, 48, 72 and 96 weeks
Proportion of patients who have virological, immunological or clinical failure or treatment-limiting adverse events at week 24, 48 and 96
Development of osteopenia, judged by DEXA-scan
Time to discontinuation of the randomized therapy and reasons for this
Change in plasma lactate from baseline
Compliance – proportion of patients who report to take 90%, respectively 95% of their medications at week 4, 48 and 96
Incidence of adverse events
Proportion of patients with HIV-RNA < 20 copies after 24, 48, 72 and 96 weeks
Incidence of genotypical and virological resistance
Secondary ID(s)
2612-2198
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Aarhus University Hospital
Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Aalborg Universitetshospital
Odense University Hospital
Abbott
Hvidovre University Hospital
Ethics review
Results
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