Comparing a Nucleoside-Analogue-Sparing Regimen and a Protease-Inhibitor-Sparing Regimen in HIV Infected Patients
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00135460 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2005 by Danish HIV Research Group.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
First Posted : August 26, 2005
Last Update Posted : March 14, 2006
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has improved the long time survival of HIV infected individuals. However an increasing number of HIV-patients have developed metabolic and morphological alterations including peripheral lipoatrophy.
There is limited knowledge about lipodystrophic adverse events in nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI)-sparing regimens. The hypothesis is that nucleoside analogues are responsible for development of lipoatrophy, and, patients receiving an NRTI-sparing regimen will have little risk of peripheral lipoatrophy.
The researchers plan to perform a randomized study recruiting 100 antiretroviral naive patients that will be randomized to receive a nucleoside analogue sparing HAART regimen or a protease-inhibitor sparing regimen.
The main endpoint is changes in peripheral fat mass as determined by dual energy X-ray absortiometry (DEXA)-scanning.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome | Drug: nucleoside analogue sparing HAART regimen | Phase 4 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Enrollment : | 100 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official 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. |
Study Start Date : | June 2003 |
Study Completion Date : | November 2007 |
- Changes in peripheral fat mass, determined by DEXA-changes
- Changes in body composition from baseline, determined by patient and physician in a standardized questionnaire and by standardized clinical examination
- Change from baseline in fasting lipids and subsets hereof
- Development of impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance
- Proportion of patients with HIV-RNA < 20 copies after 24, 48, 72 and 96 weeks
- Change in CD4 cell count from baseline after 24, 48, 72 and 96 weeks
- Incidence of adverse events
- Incidence of clinical disease progression
- Proportion of patients who have virological, immunological or clinical failure or treatment-limiting adverse events at week 24, 48 and 96
- Change in plasma lactate from baseline
- Time to discontinuation of the randomized therapy and reasons for this
- Incidence of genotypical and virological resistance
- Development of osteopenia, judged by DEXA-scan
- Compliance - proportion of patients who report to take 90%, respectively 95% of their medications at week 4, 48 and 96

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
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).

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00135460
Denmark | |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre University Hospital | |
Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2650 | |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg Hospital | |
Aalborg, Denmark | |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital | |
Aarhus, Denmark, 8200 | |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet | |
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2100 | |
Department of Infectious Diseases, Odense University Hospital | |
Odense, Denmark, 5000 |
Study Chair: | Jan Gerstoft, M.D., DMSc | Rigshospitalet, Denmark | |
Principal Investigator: | Niels Obel, M.D., DMSc | Odense University Hospital | |
Principal Investigator: | Court Pedersen, Professor | Odense University Hospital | |
Principal Investigator: | Lars Mathiesen, M.D.,DMSc | Hvidovre University Hospital | |
Principal Investigator: | Henrik Nielsen, M.D.,DMSc | Aalborg University Hospital | |
Principal Investigator: | Alex Laursen, M.D., DMSc | Aarhus University City | |
Principal Investigator: | Ann-Brit E Hansen, M.D. | Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet and Odense University Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00135460 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2612-2198 |
First Posted: | August 26, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | March 14, 2006 |
Last Verified: | September 2005 |
HIV Lipoatrophy Lipodystrophy |
Treatment Naive HIV Infections Hypercholesterolemia |
HIV-Associated Lipodystrophy Syndrome Lipodystrophy Skin Diseases, Metabolic Skin Diseases Lipid Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases HIV Infections Lentivirus Infections |
Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases |