A Phase 4 interventional study of Triumeq in HIV, sponsored by St Stephens Aids Trust. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 60 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-02-28.
Sponsored by St Stephens Aids Trust · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to identify the effects that ageing may have on the drug levels, the safety and the efficacy of Dolutegravir.
These effects will be measured in people who are aged 60 or over and taking antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection.
Dolutegravir is a newly licenced anti HIV medication, which belongs to a class of drugs called Integrase Inhibitors. It is taken with two other wellknown agents, Abacavir and Lamivudine, as part of a one tablet once a day regimen, called Triumeq. There is little data available on Dolutegravir in the context of older age. The HIV population is ageing and the investigators know that older age can significantly change the effects and side effects of medications, including that of antiretrovirals.
The investigators aim to investigate the treatment outcomes in older people taking Dolutegravir including the tolerability, efficacy and safety of the drug.
The study will also assess the quality of life (wellbeing of individuals) and cognition (mental abilities) of people aged 60 or over, taking Dolutegravir. The results from this study may inform treatment choices and monitoring in this population in the future.
The duration of involvement in the study will be 6 months with an additional screening visit and a checkup visit 10 days after end of study visit.
Protocol Number: SSAT 064
EudraCT Number: 2014-004970-40
Name of Investigational Product:Triumeq®
Name of active ingredients:Abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir
Study title: An open label study to investigate the safety and efficacy of abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir and the pharmacokinetic profile of dolutegravir in HIV-infected patients of 60 years of age and older
Objectives:
Primary:
Secondary:
Study design:Multi -centre, 180 days (excluding screening and follow up), open label, prospective, one phase pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic study
Indication:HIV-1 infection
Methodology:HIV-1 infected subjects will be recruited from four different HIV clinics. Eligible subjects currently receiving stable antiretroviral therapy with an undetectable plasma HIV RNA and with no evidence of previous HIV resistance mutations on genotypic resistance testing, will switch their treatment to abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir and undergo a 24 hour pharmacokinetic assessment at day 28 (+/- 1). Monitoring of adverse events (not at screening), viral load, quality of life and sleep quality, will occur at screening and on days 1, 28, 90, and 180. Cognitive function will be tested at screening, baseline and day 180. A sleep diary will be completed between day 1 and day 28.
Planned sample size:A sample size of 40 patients would provide at least 80% power to detect changes in dolutegravir exposure in older people.
Up to 45 subjects may be screened to have 40 patients completing the study.
Summary of eligibility criteria:HIV-1 infected subjects currently receiving stable antiretroviral therapy with undetectable plasma HIV RNA and no evidence of previous HIV- resistance mutations on genotypic resistance testing, 60 years old or older (approximately 30% between 60 and 64 and approximately 70% above the age of 65)
Number of study centres: 4 centres:
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton St. Mary's Hospital Clinical Trials Centre, London Mortimer Market Centre, UCL, London
Duration of treatment: 180 (+/- 7) days
Dose and route of administration: All study drugs will be administered orally to subjects with the following schedule: Abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir one pill once daily
Criteria for evaluation:
Pharmacokinetic parameters of dolutegravir will be evaluated on blood drawn on day 28 (+/- 1) at 0 (pre-dose), 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 24 hours post dose.
Monitoring of adverse events (not at screening), viral load, quality of life and sleep quality will occur at screening and days 1, 28, 90, and 180. Cognitive function will be tested at screening, baseline and day 180.
Primary Endpoint:
Secondary Endpoints:
St Stephens Aids Trust is the lead sponsor of 46 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
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Male subjects who are heterosexually active must be willing to use appropriate and consistent dual method during heterosexual intercourse with women of child bearing potential, from screening through to one month post completion of the study. The following combined contraceptive methods are acceptable (please see appendix 3):
Double barrier method:
Male Condom + one of the following:
Footnotes:
If a female partner has had a total hysterectomy (surgical removal of the womb) or bilateral tubal ligation/clip (surgical sterilization), then she cannot get pregnant and the above section does not apply. If the male subject has had a vasectomy at least 1 month prior to starting the study, he does not need to use any other birth control.
Exclusion Criteria:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.
Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CD4 count
The number of CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, in a given amount of blood. It is used to follow how well the immune system is doing in HIV.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
BMI (body mass index)
Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.
What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Child-Pugh class
A score of how well the liver works in people with liver disease such as cirrhosis: class A is mild, B moderate and C severe.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV-1 infected subjects currently receiving stable antiretroviral therapy switch their treatment to abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir (Triumeq).
Drug: Triumeq
Subjects will take the last dose of their current antiretroviral combination at its usual time on the day before the baseline visit (day 1) and will switch on day 1 to Abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir 600mg/300mg/50mg (Triumeq) fixed dose combination once daily between day 1 and day 180.
Also known as: abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir
Steady state plasma concentrations of dolutegravir when administered to HIV-infected individuals over the age of 60/65 years.
Time frame: Day 28
Safety on abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir once daily in HIV-infected subjects of 60 years or greater - measured by Division of AIDS (DAIDS) Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events.
Time frame: Up to day 190
Tolerability on abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir once daily in HIV-infected subjects of 60 years or greater- measured by Division of AIDS (DAIDS) Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events.
Time frame: Up to day 190
Maintenance of HIV viral load control on abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir once daily in HIV-infected subjects of 60 years or greater.
Time frame: Up to day 190
Quality of life on abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir once daily in HIV-infected subjects of 60 years or greater.- Measured by questionnaire
Time frame: Up to day 190
Sleep Quality on abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir once daily in HIV-infected subjects of 60 years or greater - Measured by questionnaire
Time frame: Up to day 190
Measurement of the metabolic profile in patients over the age of 60 with HIV infection who switch antiretroviral regime (metabonomics)
Time frame: Up to day 180
Cerebral function via cognitive testing before and after a switch in antiretroviral therapy to a dolutegravir containing regimen
Time frame: Up to day 180
Relationship between genetic polymorphisms and exposure to dolutegravir as measured by Peak plasma concentration (Cmax)
The results of genetic polymorphisms testing indicating the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms coding for enzymes and transporters responsible for the metabolism of dolutegravir will be correlated with the PK parameter Peak plasma concentration (Cmax). This, for instance, can tell us if the presence of certain alleles makes an individual more likely to metabolise or clear dolutegravir faster or slower.
Time frame: Day 1
Relationship between genetic polymorphisms and exposure to dolutegravir as measured by trough concentration (Ctrough)
The results of genetic polymorphisms testing indicating the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms coding for enzymes and transporters responsible for the metabolism of dolutegravir will be correlated with the PK parameter trough concentration (Ctrough). This, for instance, can tell us if the presence of certain alleles makes an individual more likely to metabolise or clear dolutegravir faster or slower.
Time frame: Day 1
Relationship between genetic polymorphisms and exposure to dolutegravir as measured by Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC)
The results of genetic polymorphisms testing indicating the presence or absence of certain polymorphisms coding for enzymes and transporters responsible for the metabolism of dolutegravir will be correlated with the PK parameter Area under the plasma concentration versus time curve (AUC). This, for instance, can tell us if the presence of certain alleles makes an individual more likely to metabolise or clear dolutegravir faster or slower.
Time frame: Day 1
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