A Phase 3 interventional study of Experimental: Pregabalin XR and Comparator: Dorene Tabs in Diabetic Neuropathy, Neuropathic Pain and Neuralgia, Postherpetic, sponsored by Brainfarma Industria Química e Farmacêutica S/A. Recruiting at 15 sites in Brazil. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-20.
Sponsored by Brainfarma Industria Química e Farmacêutica S/A (part of Hypera Pharma) · Phase 3, Interventional, and Treatment
Extended-release Pregabalin for the Treatment of Neuropathic Pain in Patients With Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy and Postherpetic Neuralgia
538 studies on the registry are indexed under Diabetic Neuropathies; 80 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 348 is above the median of 68 across 448 interventional studies indexed under Diabetic Neuropathies.
Browse Diabetic Neuropathies studies →Brainfarma Industria Química e Farmacêutica S/A is the lead sponsor of 15 studies on the registry; 7 are open to participants now.
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The following criteria must be met for a participant to be included in the study:
Have a diagnosis of peripheral neuropathic pain associated with:
Participants who are unable to become pregnant ( women, defined as 12 months or more of amenorrhea, or who have undergone surgical sterilization*; and men who have undergone vasectomy**) OR participants of who agree to use a reliable method of ***.
Female sterilization (undergoing bilateral surgical oophorectomy with or without hysterectomy), total hysterectomy, or tubal ligation at least 6 weeks prior to administration of the drug.
The decision regarding the best contraceptive method to use will be made jointly by the physician and the study participant. If there are any costs involved, the chosen contraceptive method will be provided by the sponsor free of charge for as long as necessary. In addition, condoms with spermicide will be provided to participants at all study visits, when applicable.
Exclusion Criteria:
A positive response to any of the following criteria will exclude the participant from the study:
History of alcoholism (average alcohol intake exceeding 3 standard drinks* per day or more than 7 standard drinks per week for women, and exceeding 4 standard drinks per day or more than 14 standard drinks per week for men) in the past 2 years.
* A standard drink is: a can of regular beer (330 mL at 4%); a shot of distilled spirits (30 mL at 40%); a glass of wine or a small glass of sherry (100 mL at 12% or 70 mL at 18%); a small glass of liqueur or similar (50 mL at 25%) (53).
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.
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.
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
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.
HbA1c
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Postmenopausal
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Reproductive potential
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Pregabalin XR: will receive extended-release pregabalin tablets at an initial dose of 82.5 mg once daily (during the first week for titration). The dose may be adjusted every 7 days during the first 4 weeks of treatment, up to a maximum of 660 mg once daily. In addition, the experimental group may receive a placebo twice daily.
Drug: Experimental: Pregabalin XR · Drug: experimental placebo
Dorene Tabs: will receive immediate-release pregabalin tablets (Dorene Tabs) at a starting dose of 75 mg twice daily. The dose may be adjusted every 7 days during the first 4 weeks of treatment, up to a maximum of 300 mg twice daily. In addition, the comparison group will receive a placebo once daily.
Drug: Comparator: Dorene Tabs · Drug: Comparator placebo
Pregabalin XR: extended-release tablet, with an initial dose of 82.5 mg once daily. The dose may be adjusted every 7 days during the first 4 weeks of treatment, up to a maximum of 660 mg once daily. In addition, the experimental group will receive a placebo twice daily.
Pregabalin immediate-release tablets, at an initial dose of 75 mg twice daily. The dose may be adjusted every 7 days during the first 4 weeks of treatment, up to a maximum of 300 mg twice daily. In addition, the comparator group will receive a placebo once daily.
Comparator placebo
experimental placebo
Difference in the mean pain intensity score 16 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline
Difference in the mean pain intensity score 16 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline, between the study drug and the comparator, as measured by the 11-point DPRS (Daily Pain Rating Scale) (ranging from 0 "no pain" to 10 "worst possible pain"). Participants completed the baseline scale at the research center and filled it out daily at home until visit V8, twice a day. The average number of scales will be calculated by dividing the number of scales completed by the number of days on which they were completed.
Time frame: 16 weeks
To assess improvement in neuropathic pain during treatment.
Difference in the mean pain intensity score at 1, 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline, between the experimental drug and the comparator, as measured by the 11-point DPRS scale.
Time frame: 1 to 12 weeks
To assess the proportion of participants who experienced significant improvement in neuropathic pain during and at the end of treatment.
Difference in the mean total pain score at 1, 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline, between the experimental drug and the comparator, as measured by the SF-MPQ (Short Form - McGill Pain Questionnaire).
Time frame: 1 to 16 weeks
To assess improvements in the impact of neuropathic pain on sleep, quality of life, and symptoms of anxiety and depression during and at the end of treatment.
Proportion of participants with a ≥ 30% reduction in pain intensity at 1, 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline, between the study drug and the comparator, as measured by the 11-point DPRS scale. Difference in the mean score for pain interference with sleep at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after the start of treatment, relative to baseline, between the study drug and the comparator, as measured by the 11-point DSIS (Daily Sleep Interference Scale) (ranging from 0 "pain did not interfere with sleep" to 10 "pain completely interfered with sleep"). Difference in quality of life at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline, between the experimental drug and the comparator, as measured by the WHOQoL-BREF (World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale). Difference in anxiety and depression symptoms at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks after the start of treatment, compared to baseline, between the experimental drug and the comparator.
Time frame: 1 to 16 weeks
Assess the participant's overall perception of change at the end of treatment.
Proportion of participants who rated their clinical condition as "much better," "moderately better," "slightly better," "no change," "slightly worse," "moderately worse," and "much worse," using the PGIC (Patient Global Impression of Change) scale, when comparing the experimental drug to the comparator 16 weeks after the start of treatment.
Time frame: Week 16
Evaluate the use of rescue medication.
Proportion of participants who used rescue medication, frequency of use, dose, and duration, comparing the experimental medication with the comparator.
Time frame: 1 to 16 weeks.
Safety Outcome: To evaluate the safety of extended-release pregabalin tablets compared with immediate-release pregabalin tablets in participants with diabetic neuropathy or postherpetic neuralgia.
Incidence rate of serious and non-serious adverse events-both related and unrelated-by treatment group throughout the clinical trial, based on an analysis of data obtained from clinical and physical examinations and laboratory tests.
Time frame: 19 weeks.
Started Jun 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2027, 11 months after the start.
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