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Effect of Rosiglitazone on Myocardial Blood Flow Regulation in Type 2 Diabetes

Information source: University of Michigan
Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on June 20, 2008
Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Condition(s) targeted: Type 2 Diabetes

Intervention: Rosiglitazone (Drug); Glyburide (Drug)

Phase: N/A

Status: Completed

Sponsored by: University of Michigan

Official(s) and/or principal investigator(s):
Martin Stevens, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, Affiliation: University of Michigan

Summary

The overall hypothesis to be tested is that increased insulin resistance contributes to abnormal cardiac blood flow regulation in type 2 diabetic patients, which can be reversed by 6 months treatment with rosiglitazone. The planned experimental approach will be to utilize nuclear medicine techniques to evaluate whether the administration of rosiglitazone for 6 months can reverse regional deficits in myocardial blood flow and glucose utilization in type 2 diabetes in a randomized double blind controlled study. These studies will help elucidate the potential of rosiglitazone to correct deficits of myocardial blood flow complicating diabetes with the overall aim being the eventual prevention of sudden cardiac death.

Clinical Details

Official title: Effect of Rosiglitazone on Myocardial Blood Flow Regulation in Type 2 Diabetes

Study design: Treatment, Randomized, Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Uncontrolled, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Primary outcome: Myocardial blood flow regulation

Secondary outcome: biomarkers of oxidative/nitrosative stress

Eligibility

Minimum age: 30 Years. Maximum age: 75 Years. Gender(s): Both.

Criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

- Type 2 diabetes

- 30-75 years of age

- less than 1% fluctuation in HbA1c over 3 months

- women must be on contraception

- HbA1c 6-9%

- willingness to sign approved consent form

Exclusion Criteria:

- Nursing mothers, pregnant women (excluded by a negative pregnancy test).

- Subjects requiring insulin therapy (>20 units/day) and can not be converted to

sulfonylurea therapy without loss of diabetes control.

- Patients with a history of drug or alcohol dependence in the last 5 years

- Patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease including coronary artery disease,

heart attack, heart failure, abnormal heart rhythms, structural abnormalities and valve disease, peripheral vascular disease and uncontrolled high blood pressure.

- Patients with a history of high cholesterol requiring therapy.

- Patients with severe systemic disease other than diabetes which has as a recognized

complication neuropathy

- Patients currently taking drugs which act on the blood vessels (for example for

hypertension)

- Patients taking antidepressants, or other drugs or medications known to interfere with

the uptake or metabolism of catecholamines (stress hormones)

- Patients with poor renal function or have significant liver disease

- Patients with a history of previous kidney, pancreas or cardiac transplantation.

- Patients with a history of "severe hypoglycemia" which required the assistance of a

third party or ketoacidosis requiring hospital admission within the last 3 months.

- Patients with lung disease for example resulting from chronic obstructive airways

disease.

- Patients with abnormal thyroid function tests.

- Patients having taken other systemic investigational drugs (especially for neuropathy)

or initiating a new or experimental insulin delivery device within 3 months of starting the study.

- Patients with a history of allergic reactions to multiple drugs or biological

products.

- Obese patients (BMI greater than 35).

- Patients who refuse to sign the informed consent.

Locations and Contacts

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States

University of Toledo - Health Campus, Toledo, Ohio 43606, United States

Additional Information

Starting date: February 2002
Ending date: November 2006
Last updated: November 8, 2007

Page last updated: June 20, 2008

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