A Study to Compare the Number of Patients With Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) Achieving Heartburn and Regurgitation Symptom Resolution After Treatment With Either Rabeprazole Sodium 20mg, Esomeprazole 20mg or Esomeprazole 40m - Full Text View

Sponsor:	Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd
Information provided by:	Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00464308

Purpose

The primary objective of this study is to compare, the number of patients with heartburn and regurgitation symptom resolution after treatment with either rabeprazole 20 mg, esomeprazole 20 mg or esomeprazole 40 mg.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux	Drug: Esomeprazole Drug: Rabeprazole	Phase IV

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study
Official Title:	The Rabeprazole and Esomeprazole Reflux Assessment Trial (TREAT)

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MedlinePlus related topics: Esophagus Disorders GERD Heartburn

Drug Information available for: Omeprazole Omeprazole magnesium E 3810 Esomeprazole Sodium Esomeprazole magnesium

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd:

Primary Outcome Measures:

The proportion of patients with complete resolution of heartburn and regurgitation by week 4 of treatment and the proportion of patients with satisfactory resolution of heartburn and regurgitation by week 4 of treatment. [ Time Frame: week 4 of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

The proportion of patients with complete resolution and satisfactory resolution of other GORD symptoms by week 4 of treatment. The median time to first symptom resolution and heartburn and regurgitation frequency. [ Time Frame: week 4 of treatment ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Enrollment:	1392
Study Start Date:	November 2006
Study Completion Date:	May 2008
Primary Completion Date:	May 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
001: Active Comparator	Drug: Esomeprazole 40mg once daily for 28days - 1 placebo tab/cap & 1 active tab/cap daily
002: Active Comparator	Drug: Esomeprazole 20mg once daily for 28days - 1 placebo tab/cap & 1 active tab/cap daily
003: Active Comparator	Drug: Rabeprazole 20mg once daily for 28days - 1 placebo tab/cap & 1 active tab/cap daily

Detailed Description:

The study is designed to be conducted in a realistic General Practice (GP) setting, enrolling typical Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) patients that present for treatment, and for whom a Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) would normally be prescribed. The study will be conducted over a 4-week period on the basis that current GP standard practice is to treat the GORD patient for a period of 4-weeks prior to reassessment and further follow-up if required. This study is conducted in patients with GORD - associated heartburn (with or without regurgitation) at multiple GP centres, treatment is assigned based on chance (randomised), similar to the toss of a coin and neither doctor or patient knows which treatment they will received (double-blinded). Following screening to determine eligibility, patients will be randomised to receive oral treatment with either 20 mg rabeprazole, 20 mg esomeprazole or 40 mg esomeprazole once daily for 4 weeks. This 4-week study encompasses 2 protocol-mandated visits (baseline on day 0 and final visit on day 28). It is hypothesised that rabeprazole 20 mg will be no less effective than (non-inferior) esomeprazole 40 mg for the degree of GORD symptom resolution.

Patients will take one tablet (rabeprazole 20 mg or placebo) and one capsule (esomeprazole 20 mg, esomeprazole 40 mg or placebo) each day for 28 days. The study medication will be taken once daily in the morning before breakfast, except the first dose, which will be taken during Visit 1.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Heartburn (defined as a feeling of burning or pain, rising from the epigastrium or lower part of the chest up towards the neck) with or without regurgitation
Patients must have had episodes of heartburn with or without regurgitation for 3 months or longer, and for >= 3 days in the 7 days prior to randomisation
Able to understand and complete questionnaires, able to give written informed consent, and have access to a telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients requiring endoscopy within 4 weeks of randomisation or with gastrointestinal symptoms that, in the opinion of the investigator, require further investigation prior to or coincident with initiation of PPI therapy which would include, but are not limited to, alarm symptoms such as unintentional weight loss, progressive difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), iron deficiency anaemia and epigastric mass
Significant gastrointestinal obstruction, major gastric or oesophageal surgery (excluding appendectomy or cholecystectomy), oesophageal stricture or pyloric stenosis, extra-oesophageal manifestations of reflux disease
Patients with Barrett's oesophagus (>3cm), Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, scleroderma, malignancy (other than non-melanoma skin cancers) present within the last 5 years, hypersensitivity to rabeprazole or esomeprazole or any PPI, or any other significant condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, could interfere with the patients participation or compliance in the study such as past or current history of alcohol or drug abuse, hepatic, renal, pulmonary, respiratory abnormalities, or who have participated in an investigational drug or investigational device study within 30 days prior to the baseline visit or who are expected to do so during the 4 week study period
Female patients who are currently pregnant or breast feeding, or who, in the opinion of the investigator, may become pregnant throughout the study
Use of histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs) within 7 days of randomisation, anticholinergics, cholinergics, spasmolytics, opiates, sucralfate, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), prokinetics, antibiotics (in relation to H. pylori treatment) or bismuth compounds within 14 days of randomisation

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00464308

Sponsors and Collaborators

Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd

Investigators

Study Director:

Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd Clinical Trial

Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd

More Information

No publications provided by Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd

Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by National Clinical Trials Identifier (NCT ID):

Eggleston A, Katelaris PH, Nandurkar S, Thorpe P, Holtmann G; Treat Study Group. Clinical trial: the treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in primary care--prospective randomized comparison of rabeprazole 20 mg with esomeprazole 20 and 40 mg. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2009 May 1;29(9):967-78. Epub 2009 Feb 3.

Responsible Party:	Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd ( Exec. Director Medical & Scientific Affairs J-C )
Study ID Numbers:	CR006397, RABGRD4009
Study First Received:	April 20, 2007
Last Updated:	April 16, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00464308 History of Changes
Health Authority:	Australia: Department of Health

Keywords provided by Janssen-Cilag Pty Ltd:

GORD
Heartburn
Proton pump inhibitor
Gastroesophageal Reflux

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Agents
Omeprazole
Enzyme Inhibitors
Gastroesophageal Reflux
Pharmacologic Actions

Esophageal Motility Disorders
Deglutition Disorders
Digestive System Diseases
Therapeutic Uses
Anti-Ulcer Agents
Esophageal Diseases
Rabeprazole

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