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Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
Main ID:  NCT03324412
Date of registration: 25/10/2017
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Public title: Efficacy and Safety of TwHF and MTX in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Scientific title: A 24-Week, Multicenter ,Double Blind, Randomized Study to Determine the Effects and Security of TwHF and MTX Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis
Date of first enrolment: October 28, 2017
Target sample size: 216
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03324412
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator).  
Phase:  Phase 2/Phase 3
Countries of recruitment
Contacts
Name:     Jiang Quan, MD
Address: 
Telephone: 010-88001060
Email: doctor@126.com
Affiliation: 
Name:     Jiang Quan, MD
Address: 
Telephone:
Email:
Affiliation:  Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis as determined by the 1987 or 2010 ACR
classification criteria;

- No male or female fertility requirements, or around menopause women;

- Patients with mild-to-moderate activity, 2.6 < DAS28=5.1;

- No serious system involved, such as severe pericardial effusion, interstitial lung
disease, renal tubular acidosis, atrophic gastritis, autoimmune liver disease, etc;

- Within a month before the selected participants did not attend any drugs

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with cancer or other malignant disease such as cardiovascular, hematopoietic,
liver and kidney disease, and psychopath

- Active or chronic infection, including HIV, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus,
tuberculosis

- Previous treated with tripterygii, glucocorticoid or biologic disease-modifying
antirheumatic drug (DMARD) in 3 months.

- Previous treated with Tripterygium Wilfordii or MTX

- Patients with retinopathy.



Age minimum: 45 Years
Age maximum: 70 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Intervention(s)
Drug: Treatment of MTX
Drug: Treatment of MTX and TwHF
Primary Outcome(s)
The change from Baseline to week 24 in Disease Activity Score (DAS28) [Time Frame: 0 weeks, 4 weeks,12 weeks, 24 weeks,52 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
The number of adverse events [Time Frame: 24 weeks]
The change in Sharp score [Time Frame: 0 week,24 weeks,52 weeks]
The proportion of patients achieving ACR20/50/70 [Time Frame: 0 weeks, 4 weeks,12 weeks, 24 weeks]
The change in Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) score [Time Frame: 0 weeks, 4 weeks,12 weeks, 24 weeks,52 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
Z161100000516020-2
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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