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Status unknownNCT04480359Updated Aug 14, 2020

Bawei Shenqi Pill in the Treatment of Ankylosing Spondylitis

A Phase 2/3 interventional study of Bawei Shenqi Pill and Bawei Shenqi Pill placebo in Ankylosing Spondylitis, sponsored by Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-08-14.

Sponsored by Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Phase 2/3, Interventional, and Treatment

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Jul 2020), so the status shown — last known as Recruiting — may be out of date.

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 2 years 9 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Oct 2017, registered Jul 2020).
Phase
Phase 2/3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
80
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Bawei Shenqi Pill is effective in the treatment of active ankylosing spondylitis (AS).

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Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammatory disease, which mainly invades sacroiliac joint, spinal osteoid process, paraspinal soft tissue and peripheral joints, and can be accompanied by extraarticular manifestations, in severe cases, spinal deformity and ankylosis can occur. The overall prevalence rate of ankylosing spondylitis in China is about 0.3%, the peak of which is 20 to 30 years old. although the prevalence rate is not high, the disability rate is high, and the patients with ankylosing spondylitis are mainly young people of childbearing age, which are in a critical period of work and study. If the disease can not be controlled smoothly, it will seriously affect its learning and work efficiency, image appearance and even the ability of daily life.

Bawei Shenqi Pill originates from Zhang Zhongjing's synopsis of the Golden Chamber, is the representative prescription of warming and tonifying kidney yang, and is also suitable for the pathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis "deficiency of kidney yang". The purpose of this study was to observe the therapeutic effect of Bawei Shenqi Pill on ankylosing spondylitis of kidney-yang deficiency type through a randomized controlled clinical study. To clarify the effect of Bawei Shenqi Pill on disease activity, joint function, TCM syndrome integral and quality of life in patients with ankylosing spondylitis, and to provide basis for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis with Bawei Shenqi Pill.

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Conditions studied

  • Ankylosing Spondylitis

Keywords

  • Bawei Shenqi Pill
  • ankylosing spondylitis
  • clinical research
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In context

Spondylitis

623 studies on the registry are indexed under Spondylitis; 83 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 80 is below the median of 92 across 349 interventional studies indexed under Spondylitis.

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Lead sponsor

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the lead sponsor of 99 studies on the registry; 19 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Compliance with New York standards revised in 1984
  • Syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine for deficiency of kidney-yang
  • 18 to 70 years of age, male and female
  • Being able to understand or sign an informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Other spondyloarthropathy that does not meet the diagnostic criteria of ankylosing spondylitis, and TCM syndrome differentiation does not belong to kidney-yang deficiency type.
  • Age is out of range
  • Do not agree to participate in this topic or can not participate in the whole process
  • Complicated with other rheumatic diseases or other seronegative spondyloarthropathy.
  • Pregnant, lactating women and patients with serious visceral diseases, mental disorders and severe extraarticular manifestations, such as heart, lung, liver, kidney or hematopoietic system.
  • Have had myocardial infarction or stroke, congestive heart failure and active digestive tract ulcer patients.
  • Those who had received other research drugs three months before screening.
  • Inability or unwillingness to provide informed consent or failure to comply with test requirements.
  • The researchers believe that it is not suitable for the owners of the study.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2 / Phase 3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Quadruple (Participant, Care provider, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
80 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Active comparator
    Bawei Shenqi group

    participants should administrate both Bawei Shenqi Pill and Meloxicam tablets

    Drug: Bawei Shenqi Pill · Drug: Meloxicam

  • Placebo comparator
    placebo group

    participants should administrate both Bawei Shenqi Pill placebo and Meloxicam tablets

    Drug: Bawei Shenqi Pill placebo · Drug: Meloxicam

Interventions

  • DrugBawei Shenqi Pill

    5.1g, once a day, 3month, oral

    Also known as: Experimental:Bawei Shenqi group

  • DrugBawei Shenqi Pill placebo

    5.1g, once a day, 3month, oral

    Also known as: Placebo Comparator: placebo group

  • DrugMeloxicam

    7.5mg, once a day, 3 month, oral

    Also known as: Experimental:Bawei Shenqi group, Placebo Comparator: placebo group

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. BASDAI

    Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index

    Time frame: 12weeks

  2. BASFI

    Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index

    Time frame: 12weeks

  3. CRP

    C-reactive protein

    Time frame: 12weeks

  4. ESR

    Erythrocyte sedimentation rate

    Time frame: 12weeks

  5. Range of motion

    occipital wall distance, chest expansion distance, finger ground distance, Schober test

    Time frame: 12weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. SF-36

    SF- 36 scale for quality of life assessment

    Time frame: at baseline and at 3 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
    Shanghai, Shanghai 200030, China
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 14, 2020, 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
NCT04480359
Lead sponsor
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Responsible party
maojianchun (professor, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jul 21, 2020
Start date
Oct 1, 2017
Primary completion
Aug 30, 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 30, 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Aug 14, 2020

Study contacts

Jianchun Mao, master
Contact
mjcct2018@163.com
86-18917763231

Oversight

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