Status:

COMPLETED

Gestational Treatment With Ursodeoxycholic Acid Compared to Placebo to Reduce Severity of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosed at 24-28 Weeks' Gestation

Lead Sponsor:

Fundacion para la Formacion e Investigacion Sanitarias de la Region de Murcia

Conditions:

Gestational Diabetes

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

The trial will compare the influence of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) compared to placebo on glycaemic control (primary outcome) in women with GDM after a positive diagnosis at 24-28 week...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Women with GDM diagnosed at 24-28 weeks' gestation in accordance with Spanish guidelines in accordance with NDDG criteria, i.e. two or more glucose concentrations (fasting: ≥ 5.8 mmol/L (105 mg/dL), 1 h: ≥10.6 mmol/L, (190 mg/dL) 2 h: ≥9.2 mmol/L (165 mg/dL), 3 h: ≥ 8.1 mmol/L (145 mg/dL)) after a standard 100g OGTT, two fasting blood glucose levels ≥ 126 mg/dl, on different days, or at random ≥ 200 mg/dL or a plasma glucose value greater than 200 mg/dL after OSullivan test
  • Planned antenatal care at the same centre (i.e. not planning to move before delivery).
  • Singleton pregnancy.
  • Informed and written consent.

Exclusion

  • Age \<18 years;
  • Multiple pregnancy in current pregnancy;
  • Unconscious or very ill;
  • Serious mental illness;
  • Learning difficulties;
  • Not fluent in local language and absence of interpreter.
  • Severe congenital anomaly on ultrasound
  • Previous diagnosis of diabetes outside of pregnancy
  • Significant pre-pregnancy comorbidities that increase risk in pregnancy, for example renal failure, severe liver disease, transplantation, cardiac failure, psychiatric conditions requiring in-patient admission (\<1 year)
  • Significant co-morbidity in the current pregnancy, nephropathy (estimated GF\<60ml/min), other physical or psychological conditions likely to interfere with the conduct of the study and/or interpretation of the trial results
  • Participating in another intervention study that will influence the outcome of this trial (to be advised by CI or PI).
  • Known allergy/hypersensitivity/intolerance to the active substance or excipients.
  • Hypersensitivity to Ursodexosolic acid or to the following excipients: Magnesium stearate, cellulose powder, colloidal silica and sodium carboxymethyl starch, gelatin, titanium dioxide, quinoline yellow, orange yellow S, indigotine.
  • Patients with a non-functioning gallbladder, in patients with calcified cholesterol stones, radio-opaque stones, radiolucent gallbladder stones.
  • Gastric or duodenal ulcer.
  • Liver or intestinal disorders that interfere with the enterohepatic circulation: acute cholecystitis that does not subside, cholangitis, biliary obstruction, pancreatitis due to stones, patients with gastrointestinal-biliary fistula.
  • Breastfeeding

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 3 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

May 10 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

113 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06127355

Start Date

March 3 2021

End Date

May 10 2022

Last Update

November 14 2023

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Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca

Murcia, Spain, 30120