Rasagiline Rescue in Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trial (R2)
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| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02359552 |
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Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : February 10, 2015
Results First Posted : October 20, 2020
Last Update Posted : November 10, 2020
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| Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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| Alzheimer's Disease | Drug: Rasagiline Drug: Placebo | Phase 2 |
The study consists of two phases: a 24 week double blind placebo controlled treatment period and a 4 week follow up period. Patients will be randomized in a 1: 1 ratio at baseline to receive either Rasagiline or matching placebo
The study drug will be given as 0.5 mg dose once daily for the 4 weeks, then increases to 1 mg daily for the next 20 weeks. A total of 50 subjects will be enrolled: 25 will receive Rasagiline and 25 will receive matching placebo for the 24-week treatment period.
Primary objective is to determine if exposure to 1 mg of Rasagiline daily is associated with improved regional brain metabolism in the treatment group compared to the placebo group in Alzheimer's Disease patients
| Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
| Actual Enrollment : | 50 participants |
| Allocation: | Randomized |
| Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
| Masking: | Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator) |
| Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
| Official Title: | A 24-week, Three-site, Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Group, Proof-of-concept Study to Evaluate Rasagiline in the Regional Brain Metabolism on FDG PET in Patients With Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease |
| Actual Study Start Date : | May 2015 |
| Actual Primary Completion Date : | August 29, 2018 |
| Actual Study Completion Date : | January 4, 2019 |
| Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Subjects will be randomized in 1:1 ratio to receive Rasagiline or the matching placebo 24-week double blind treatment. Subjects will take one 0.5 mg Rasagiline tablet or the matching placebo once a day on Baseline (Day 1) through Week 4. The dose will be titrated up to one 1 mg tablet or the matching placebo once a day starting on Week 5 until the Week 28 (end of treatment visit). |
Drug: Placebo |
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Active Comparator: Rasagiline
Subjects will be randomized in 1:1 ratio to receive Rasagiline or the matching placebo 24-week double blind treatment. Subjects will take one 0.5 mg Rasagiline tablet or the matching placebo once a day on Baseline (Day 1) through Week 4. The dose will be titrated up to one 1 mg tablet or the matching placebo once a day starting on Week 5 until the Week 28 (end of treatment visit). |
Drug: Rasagiline |
- Change in Regional Glucose Metabolism Between Week 24 and Baseline as Measured by 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET). [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]The primary outcome measure is the change from baseline to week 24 in FDG-PET as measured by Standard Uptake Units Regional (SUVR) in several pre-specified brain regions including the medial temporal, lateral temporal, posterior cingulate - precuneus, inferior parietal, middle frontal, anterior cingulate, and striatum. The SUVR change was calculated by subtracting the value at 24 weeks from baseline values. Negative values indicate increased hypometabolism (i.e. worsening of cell function).
- Change in ADAS-Cog 11 (Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive 11) Score [ Time Frame: Mean change in scores from baseline to week 24 ]The ADAS-Cog 11 (Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive 11) is a psychometric instrument that evaluates memory, attention, reasoning, language, orientation, and praxis. A higher score indicates more impairment. Scores from the original portion of the test range from 0 (best) to 70 (worse). We used total ADAS-Cog 11 scores, which is a sum of individual subscales. We calculated the change by subtracting the ADAS Cog score at week 24 from baseline score. A positive change indicates cognitive worsening.
- Change in MMSE (Mini Mental Status Examination) Score [ Time Frame: Mean change in scores from baseline to week 24 ]Measure Description: The MMSE (Mini Mental Status Examination) is a brief, frequently used screening instrument for AD drug studies. The MMSE evaluates orientation, memory, attention, concentration, naming, repetition, comprehension, and ability to create a sentence and to copy two overlapping pentagons. A lower score indicates more cognitive impairment. The highest score is 30, range is between 0 (severe impairment) and 30 (cognitively normal). We calculated the change in scores by subtracting week 24 score from baseline. A negative score indicates clinical worsening.
- Change in ADCS-ADL (Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living) Score [ Time Frame: Mean change in scores from baseline to week 24 ]Measure Description: The ADCS-ADL (Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living) is an activities-of-daily-living inventory developed by the ADCS to assess functional performance in participants with AD. Using a structured interview format, study partners are queried as to whether participants attempted each item in the inventory during the past 4 weeks and their level of performance. The ADCS-ADL provides a total score from 0-78, with a lower score indicating greater severity. We calculated change by subtracting scores on week 24 test from the baseline score. A negative score indicates worsening ability to complete ADLs.
- Change in NPI (Neuropsychiatric Inventory) Score [ Time Frame: Mean change in scores from baseline to week 24 ]Measure Description: The behavioral outcome measure for this trial is the NPI (Neuropsychiatric Inventory). The NPI evaluates both the frequency and severity of 10 neuropsychiatric disturbances. Frequency assessments range from 1 (occasionally, less than once per week) to 4 (very frequently, once or more per day or continuously) as well as severity (1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe). The overall score is calculated by summing the severity and frequency of the subscale measures. The range of scores is 0-40. A score of 0 indicates no behavioral impairment and a score of 40 indicates severe behavioral impairment. We calculated change by subtracting Week 24 scores from baseline scores. A positive change indicates behavioral worsening.
- Change in Digit Span [ Time Frame: Mean change in scores from baseline to week 24 ]Measure Description: The Digit Span consists of repetition of increasing long strings of digits presented at 1 per second as read by the examiner and repeated by the subject.The score is the maximum number of digits the patient can repeat until they fail twice in a row. The reverse digit span is identical to the forward digit span except that the patient repeats the presented digits in reverse order. The score is the maximum number of digits the patient can repeat in reverse order until they fail twice in a row. Each correct response is worth one point with a maximum total score of 28. A higher score is better. We calculated change by subtracting week 24 score from baseline score. A negative score indicates worse performance over the course of study.
- Change in COWAT (Controlled Oral Word Association Test) Score [ Time Frame: Mean change in scores from baseline to week 24 ]
Measure Description: Study participants are instructed, "I want to see how many words you can say beginning with a certain letter in one minute." The study participant's responses are recorded on the worksheet. Study participants are then given an additional one minute for each of two different letters using similar instructions. The score is the total number of acceptable words for the three trials combined. A higher score represents better performance.
Responses are then judged for their acceptability (example for the use of proper nouns, numbers, repetitions and stem word with a different ending). The score is the total number of acceptable words for the three trials combined. A higher score represents better performance. We calculated change by subtracting week 24 scores from baseline scores. A negative score indicates worse performance.
- Change in QoL-AD (Quality of Life - Alzheimer's Disease) Score [ Time Frame: This assessment will be performed at the Baseline and Week 24 visits. ]Measure Description: The QoL-AD (Quality of Life - Alzheimer's Disease) is a commonly used 13 item QoL scale that assesses items specific to QoL in patients with cognitive impairment. It is administered to the research partner with answers for the patient. Points are assigned to each item as follows: poor = 1, fair = 2, good = 3, excellent = 4.The total score is the sum of all 13 items. The range of score is from 0-52. We calculated the change by subtracting the scores on week 24 score from baseline. A negative value indicates worsening quality of life.
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| Ages Eligible for Study: | 50 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
| Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males or females 50 to 90 of age inclusive.
- Diagnosis of probable AD (NINCDS-ADRDA criteria)
- Positive fluoro-deoxyglucose PET ([18F]-FDG PET) scan compatible with AD as determined by the ADM Diagnostics LLC (ADMdx) Criteria at screening
- Mini Mental Status Exam = 12 - 22 (inclusive)
- Must have a study partner who is able and willing to comply with all required study procedures.
- Have at least eight years of education and should have previously (in pre-AD condition) been capable of reading, writing, and communicating effectively with others in English.
- If receiving therapy with a cholinesterase inhibitor and/or memantine, the dose of these agents has been stable for at least 3 months prior to screening
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any non-AD neurological disease
- MRI findings indication of a non-AD diagnosis
- Screening laboratory studies that are 1.5 times above or below the highest and lowest range of normal for each test respectively
- History of melanoma; history of malignancy within the past five years with the exception of basal cell or squamous cell cancer, in-situ cervical cancer, or localized prostate cancer
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02359552
| United States, Nevada | |
| Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health | |
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106 | |
| United States, Ohio | |
| Cleveland Clinic Main Campus | |
| Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195 | |
| Cleveland Clinic Lakewood Hospital | |
| Lakewood, Ohio, United States, 44107 | |
| Principal Investigator: | Jeffrey L Cummings, MD, ScD | The Cleveland Clinic |
Documents provided by The Cleveland Clinic:
| Responsible Party: | The Cleveland Clinic |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02359552 |
| Other Study ID Numbers: |
14-519 |
| First Posted: | February 10, 2015 Key Record Dates |
| Results First Posted: | October 20, 2020 |
| Last Update Posted: | November 10, 2020 |
| Last Verified: | October 2020 |
| Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
| Plan to Share IPD: | No |
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