Unique ID issued by UMIN | UMIN000015596 |
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Receipt number | R000018061 |
Scientific Title | Effects of rivastigmine on the appetite of patients with Alzheimer's disease (Relationship of BuChE activity and ghrelin level in blood) |
Date of disclosure of the study information | 2014/11/04 |
Last modified on | 2019/03/04 18:20:48 |
Effects of rivastigmine on the appetite of patients with Alzheimer's disease (Relationship of BuChE activity and ghrelin level in blood)
Effects of rivastigmine on the appetite of patients with Alzheimer's disease (Relationship of BuChE activity and ghrelin level in blood)
Effects of rivastigmine on the appetite of patients with Alzheimer's disease (Relationship of BuChE activity and ghrelin level in blood)
Effects of rivastigmine on the appetite of patients with Alzheimer's disease (Relationship of BuChE activity and ghrelin level in blood)
Japan |
Alzheimer's disease
Medicine in general | Cardiology | Endocrinology and Metabolism |
Neurology |
Others
NO
To evaluate improvement of the appetite and symptoms in patients with AD (Alzheimer's disease) using rivastigmine to suppress the degradation of ghrelin
Efficacy
* Amount of change of blood active and inactive ghrelin
* Change of BuChE activity
* Mean amount of weekly food intake
* Amount of change of body weight
* Psychological attitude including appetite
* Cognitive ability assessed by HDS-R
* Adverse event
Interventional
Single arm
Non-randomized
Open -no one is blinded
Uncontrolled
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Treatment
Medicine |
Intervention of medicine,
1. Patients will be started using 4.5mg rivastigmine, and will be increased 4.5mg additionally every four weeks until a maintenance dose is reached. Maintenance dose is 18mg per day in this study.
2. Using donepezil and/or galanthamine together with rivastigmine is prohibited.
3. Using new medicine in addition to previous prescription is prohibited.
50 | years-old | <= |
Not applicable |
Male and Female
Those who fall into the following criteria will be included in this study:
1) Patients themselves or their proxies
can voluntarily provide informed
consent to participate in this study
2) At age of 50 or older
3) Patients meet the probable AD criteria
(using NIA-AA, 2011), and are
diagnosed as having mild or moderate
Alzheimer's disease
4) Either untreated or treated with
medication for AD (using donepezil,
galanthamine, or memantine) and
willing to use rivastigmine instead,
and meet one of the following
conditions:
a) using the medicine over a half
year, but shows no improvement in
symptoms
b) experiencing side effects such as
nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea for
a long period of time and hard to
continue with the medication, or
c) experiencing a decrease in
medication compliance.
Patients who fall into one of the following criteria will be excluded from this study:
1) Patients with neurodegenerative
disease, schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, or other disease classified
in DSM-IV Axis I
2) Patients with DLB, or other systemic
disease or neurological disorder
(dysthyroidism, vitamin B12 or folic
acid deficiency, after head injury,
Huntington disease, Parkinson's
disease, intradural hematoma, normal
pressure hydrocephalus, brain tumor,
syphilis, etc.)
3) Patients diagnosed as having VD, or
possible VD based on NINDS-AIREN
diagnostic criteria
4) Patients with severe cardiovascular
disorder
5) Patients with bradycardia
(< 50bpm), sick sinus syndrome, or
conduction disturbance
6) Patients with acute, severe, or
unstable symptoms of asthma
7) Patients showing hypersensitiveness to
components of rivastigmine or to
carbamate derivative
8) Patients after operation of gastrectomy
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1st name | |
Middle name | |
Last name | Kuroda Atsushi |
Ichihino Memorial Hospital
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
3079 Hiwaki-Cho Ichihino, Satsuma Sendai-shi, Kagoshima-ken 895-1203
0996-38-1200
kuroda-a@po2.synapse.ne.jp
1st name | |
Middle name | |
Last name | Hiroki Takayama |
Soiken Inc.
Support Business for Clinical Research on Medicines
4th Floor NBF Ogawa Bld., 1-3-1 Ogawamachi, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0052
03-3295-1350
takayama@soiken.com
Ichihino Memorial Hospital
Ono Pharmaceutical Co., LtD.
Other
NO
2014 | Year | 11 | Month | 04 | Day |
Unpublished
Completed
2014 | Year | 11 | Month | 04 | Day |
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2014 | Year | 11 | Month | 04 | Day |
2019 | Year | 03 | Month | 04 | Day |
Value
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