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WithdrawnNCT03363191Updated Jan 29, 2018

The Efficacy of Fluticasone Furoate/Vilanterol Versus (vs) Fluticasone Furoate on Asthma

A Phase 4 interventional study of Fluticasone Furoate/Vilanterol and Fluticasone Furoate in Asthma, sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-01-29.

Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline · Phase 4, Interventional, and Treatment

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The study was withdrawn due to an internal decision.

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Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 40 studies testing fluticasone furoate in Asthma — none open to participants now, 3 under way, 2 of them phase 3. fluticasone furoate · Asthma.

Enrollment
39th of 40
0 · median 102
Started
2018
with 2 others
Phase 4
6 of 40
none open now
Registered
33rd of 40
by date
Lead sponsor
36 of 40
GlaxoSmithKline

Among the 40 studies testing fluticasone furoate in Asthma, this one is the 39th largest by enrollment, is one of 3 that started in 2018, is one of 6 in phase 4, and was the 33rd registered.

Asthma

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Open to participants now

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About fluticasone furoate

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Who these studies take

Of the 417 Asthma studies recruiting now, 140 (34%) set no upper age limit and 205 (49%) stop at 75 or younger; 147 take children under 18; 105 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate fluticasone furoate/vilanterol compared with fluticasone furoate alone in subjects with asthma that is uncontrolled on low to mid dose inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) or low dose ICS/ long acting beta agonist (LABA) combination. This is a phase IV, randomized, double-blind, parallel group, multicenter study evaluating fluticasone furoate/vilanterol 100/25 micrograms (mcg) and fluticasone furoate 100 mcg once daily, delivered as an inhalation powder using the ELLIPTA® device in subjects with uncontrolled asthma despite daily ICS or ICS/LABA therapy. The study will measure treatment response and asthma control using the Asthma Control Questionnaire-7 (ACQ-7) focusing on symptomatic control. In this study, proportion of subjects with an improvement in ACQ-7 score of >=0.5 at Week 12 compared to Baseline for the fluticasone furoate/vilanterol 100 mcg/25 mcg and fluticasone furoate100 mcg groups will be assessed. The total study duration for each subject will be 17 weeks including 4-week run in period, 12-week treatment period and 1-week follow up period. Approximately 1012 subjects will be randomized into the study. ELLIPTA is a registered trademark of GlaxoSmithKline group of companies.

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Conditions studied

  • Asthma

Keywords

  • fluticasone furoate/vilanterol, efficacy, asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Screening Inclusion Criteria

  • Capable of giving signed .
  • Male or female subjects aged >= 18 years of age at Screening (Visit 1). A female subject is eligible to participate if she is not pregnant not breastfeeding, and at least one of the following conditions applies; Not a woman of (WOCBP); A WOCBP who agrees to follow the guidance during the treatment period and for the duration of the study.
  • A diagnosis of persistent asthma for at least 12 weeks prior to Screening (Visit 1).
  • All subjects must be using an ICS with or without LABA for at least 12 Weeks prior to Visit 1. Two populations are eligible for enrolment: Subjects maintained on a stable ICS low to medium-dose fluticasone propionate 100 to 250 mcg twice daily or equivalent for at least 4 weeks prior to Visit 1; Subjects maintained on a stable dose of an ICS/LABA low-dose combination product (e.g., SERETIDE/ADVAIR 100/50 mcg twice daily or equivalent, via other combination products or via separate inhalers) for at least 4 weeks prior to Visit 1.
  • Subjects must have a best pre-bronchodilator of 50% - 80% of their predicted normal value. Predicted values will be based upon Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) equations for spirometry reference values.
  • Subjects must demonstrate >=12% and 200 milliliter reversibility of FEV1 within 10 to 40 minutes following 4 inhalations of albuterol/salbutamol inhalation aerosol (or an equivalent nebulized treatment with albuterol/salbutamol solution) at Visit 1. Subjects that have documented reversibility meeting the criteria above within the last 6 months prior to Visit 1 (Screening) will be eligible and do not need to repeat the reversibility assessment at Visit 1 (Screening). Reversibility measurements, including historical reversibility, should follow/meet the recommendations of the American Thoracic Society (ATS)/ European Respiratory Society (ERS) Task force: Standardization of Lung Function Testing.
  • All subjects must be able to replace their current short-acting bronchodilator (SABA), or other reliever strategy, with albuterol/salbutamol at Visit 1 (Screening), to be used only on an as-needed basis for the duration of the study. Each subject must be judged capable of withholding albuterol/salbutamol for at least 6 hours prior to performing spirometric evaluations.
  • Subjects must be able to read and complete the questionnaire and electronic daily diary themselves.

Screening Exclusion Criteria

  • Defined for this protocol as an asthma episode that required intubation and/or was associated with hypercapnia, respiratory arrest or hypoxic seizures within the last 5 years.
  • An asthma exacerbation requiring systemic within 12 weeks prior to Visit 1. Any exacerbation requiring overnight hospitalization requiring additional treatment for asthma within 6 months prior to Visit 1.
  • Current tobacco smoker or has a smoking history of >=10 pack-years (20 cigarettes/day for 10 years).
  • Culture-documented or suspected bacterial or viral infection of the upper or lower respiratory tract, sinus or middle ear that is not resolved within 4 weeks of Visit 1 and led to a change in asthma management or, in the opinion of the investigator, is expected to affect the subject's asthma status or the subject's ability to participate in the study.
  • Women who are pregnant or lactating or are planning on becoming pregnant during the study.
  • A subject must not have current evidence of: Atelectasis - segmental or larger; Bronchopulmonary dysplasia; Chronic bronchitis; (COPD) current or past diagnosis including asthma/COPD overlap; Pneumonia; Pneumothorax; Interstitial lung disease or any evidence of concurrent respiratory disease other than asthma.
  • A subject must not have any , uncontrolled condition, or disease state that, in the opinion of the investigator, would put the safety of the participant at risk through study participation or would confound the interpretation of the efficacy results if the condition/disease exacerbated during the study.
  • A subject must not have used any drug within 30 days prior to Visit 1 or within five half-lives (t1/2) of the prior investigational study, whichever is longer of the two periods.
  • Any adverse reaction including immediate or delayed to any beta2-agonist, sympathomimetic drug, or any intranasal, inhaled, or systemic corticosteroid therapy, or used with fluticasone furoate/vilanterol 100/25 or fluticasone furoate 100 (i.e., drug, lactose or magnesium stearate).
  • History of severe milk protein allergy.
  • Administration of prescription or non-prescription medication that would significantly affect the course of asthma, or interact with study treatment.
  • A subject must not be using or require the use of medications during the study.
  • A subject will not be eligible if he/she has any infirmity, disability, disease, or geographical location which seems likely (in the opinion of the investigator) to impair compliance with any aspect of this study protocol.
  • A subject will not be eligible for this study if he/she is an immediate family member of the participating investigator, sub investigator, study coordinator or an employee of the participating investigator.

Randomisation Inclusion Criteria

  • Uncontrolled asthma (ACQ-7 >=1.5 at Visit 2).
  • Demonstrated and reported in a daily diary on >=4 of the last 7 consecutive days of the run-in period (not including the date of randomisation): a score of >=1 on the day-time symptom scores and/or; a score of >=1 on the night-time asthma symptom scores and/or; albuterol/salbutamol use.
  • Compliance is defined as completion of all questions/assessments, both morning and evening, on >=4 of the last 7 days during the run-in period. This does not include the items collected for the Asthma Daily Symptom Diary (ADSD).
  • Compliance is defined as use of run-in medication on >=4 of the last 7 consecutive days of the run-in period (not including the date of randomisation) recorded in the electronic subject diary.

Randomisation Exclusion Criteria

  • Positive urine pregnancy test at Visit 2.
  • Use of any prohibited medications during the run-in period or at Visit 2.
  • Occurrence of a culture-documented or suspected bacterial or viral infection of the upper or lower respiratory tract, sinus or middle ear during the run-in period that led to a change in asthma management or, in the opinion of the investigator, is expected to affect the subjects asthma status or the participant's ability to participate in the study.
  • Evidence of a severe exacerbation, defined as deterioration of asthma requiring the use of systemic corticosteroids (tablets, suspension, or injection) for at least 3 days or an in-subject hospitalization or emergency department (ED) visit due to asthma that required systemic corticosteroids between Visits 1 and 2.
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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.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

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.

FEV1

From a breathing test (spirometry): how much air you can blow out in the first second. Often given as a percentage of what is expected for your age, height and sex.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

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.

Hypersensitivity

An allergy, or another reaction of the immune system, to a substance. “Hypersensitivity to the study drug” means a known allergic reaction to it — not every side effect a medicine can have.

Excipients

The other ingredients in a medicine besides the active drug, such as fillers, colours or preservatives.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 4
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Subjects received Fluticasone Furoate/Vilanterol

    Subjects will receive fluticasone furoate/vilanterol 100/25 mcg inhalation powder via ELLIPTA dry powder inhaler (DPI) once daily for the 12 week treatment period. Subjects will receive salbutamol/albuterol as rescue medication on an as-needed basis.

    Drug: Fluticasone Furoate/Vilanterol · Drug: Salbutamol/Albuterol

  • Active comparator
    Subjects received Fluticasone Furoate

    Subjects will receive fluticasone furoate 100 mcg inhalation powder via ELLIPTA DPI once daily for the 12 week treatment period. Subjects will receive salbutamol/albuterol as rescue medication on an as-needed basis.

    Drug: Fluticasone Furoate · Drug: Salbutamol/Albuterol

Interventions

  • DrugFluticasone Furoate/Vilanterol

    Drug pages: Fluticasone furoate · Vilanterol

    Fluticasone furoate/vilanterol will be supplied as inhalation powder in ELLIPTA DPI. It will contain 2 strips with 30 blisters per strip. First strip will contain fluticasone furoate 100 mcg dry white powder blended with lactose. Second strip will contain vilanterol 25 mcg dry white powder blended with lactose and magnesium stearate.

  • Fluticasone furoate will be supplied as inhalation powder in ELLIPTA DPI. It will contain a single strip with 30 blisters, containing fluticasone furoate 100 mcg dry white powder blended with lactose.

  • DrugSalbutamol/Albuterol

    Drug page: Albuterol

    Salbutamol/albuterol will be provided to subjects to use as rescue medication on an as-needed basis.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of subjects with an improvement in ACQ-7 score of >= 0.5 at Week 12 compared to Baseline

    The ACQ-7 consists of five questions about the frequency and/or severity of symptoms (nocturnal awakening on waking in the morning, activity limitation, and shortness of breath, wheeze) in the previous week, along with one question on daily bronchodilator use in the previous week, and a measure of lung function (forced expiratory volume in 1 second \[FEV1\] % predicted). The response options for all these questions consist of a zero (no impairment) to six (total impairment) scale. The questions are equally weighted, and the ACQ-7 score is the mean of the 7 questions and therefore between 0 (totally controlled) and 6 (severely uncontrolled). A score \>= 1.5 indicates asthma that is not well controlled, while a mean score of \<= 0.75 indicates asthma that is well controlled, with a change of 0.5 defined as the minimal clinically important difference.

    Time frame: Baseline and at Week 12

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change from Baseline in the percentage of rescue-free daytime periods during the 12-week treatment period

    Subjects will be issued an electronic diary for use during the study. Subjects will record daytime asthma symptoms scores and the number of inhalations of rescue albuterol/salbutamol inhalation aerosol used during the daytime period. Symptoms and rescue use will be recorded between Visits 1 (Week-4) and 4 (Week 12), once in the evening (reporting daytime symptoms) before taking any rescue medication or ICS. Each evening, participants will record an asthma symptom score using the following scale: 1 = no symptoms during the day 2 = symptoms for one short period during the day 3 = symptoms for two or more short periods during the day 4 = symptoms for most of the day which did not affect my normal daily activities 5 = symptoms for most of the day which did affect my normal daily activities, 6 = symptoms so severe that I could not go to work or perform normal daily activities.

    Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 12

  2. Change from Baseline in the percentage of rescue-free night time periods during the 12-week treatment period

    Subjects will be issued an electronic diary for use during the study. Subjects will record night time asthma symptoms scores and the number of inhalations of rescue albuterol/salbutamol inhalation aerosol used during the night time period. Symptoms and rescue use will be recorded twice a day between Visits 1 (Week-4) and 4 (Week 12), once in the morning (reporting night time symptoms) before taking any rescue medication or ICS. Each morning, subjects will record an asthma symptom score using the following scale: 1 = no symptoms during the night, 2 = symptoms causing me to wake once (or wake early), 3 = symptoms causing me to wake twice or more (including waking early), 4 = symptoms causing me to be awake for most of the night, and 5 = symptoms so severe that I did not sleep at all.

    Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 12

  3. Change from Baseline in the percentage of symptom-free daytime periods during the 12-week treatment period

    Subjects will be issued an electronic diary for use during the study. Subjects will record daytime asthma symptoms scores and the number of inhalations of rescue albuterol/salbutamol inhalation aerosol used during the daytime period. Symptoms and rescue use will be recorded between Visits 1 (Week-4) and 4 (Week 12), once in the evening (reporting daytime symptoms) before taking any rescue medication or ICS.

    Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 12

  4. Number of subjects with an ACQ-7 score <= 0.75 at Week 12

    The ACQ-7 consists of five questions about the frequency and/or severity of symptoms (nocturnal awakening on waking in the morning, activity limitation, and shortness of breath, wheeze) in the previous week, along with one question on daily bronchodilator use in the previous week, and a measure of lung function (FEV1 % predicted). The response options for all these questions consist of a zero (no impairment) to six (total impairment) scale. The questions are equally weighted, and the ACQ-7 score is the mean of the 7 questions and therefore between 0 (totally controlled) and 6 (severely uncontrolled). A score \>=1.5 indicates asthma that is not well-controlled, while a mean score of \<= 0.75 indicates asthma that is well-controlled, with a change of 0.5 defined as the minimal clinically important difference.

    Time frame: Baseline and at Week 12

  5. Change from Baseline in the percentage of symptom-free night time periods during the 12-week treatment period

    Subjects will be issued an electronic diary for use during the study. Subjects will record night time asthma symptoms scores and the number of inhalations of rescue albuterol/salbutamol inhalation aerosol used during the night time periods. Symptoms and rescue use will be recorded between Visits 1 (Week-4) and 4 (Week 12), once in the morning (reporting night time symptoms) before taking any rescue medication or ICS.

    Time frame: Baseline and up to Week 12

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Start is estimated for Mar 2018; primary completion for May 2019, 14 months later.

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Registered
Nov 30, 2017
First posted
Dec 6, 2017
StartEst.
Mar 7, 2018
Primary completionEst.
May 29, 2019
CompletionEst.
May 29, 2019
Last update
Jan 29, 2018
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 29, 2018, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03363191
Lead sponsor
GlaxoSmithKline
Collaborators
Parexel
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 6, 2017
Start date
Mar 7, 2018 (estimated)
Primary completion
May 29, 2019 (estimated)
Completion
May 29, 2019 (estimated)
Last update
Jan 29, 2018

Study contacts

GSK Clinical Trials
study director · GlaxoSmithKline

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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