Status:

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Exploring the Anti-ageing Effects of Metformin in COPD

Lead Sponsor:

Fundación Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra

Conditions:

COPD

Eligibility:

All Genders

40-75 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

Prospective, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, prospective clinical trial comparing the effect of metformin 850 mg twice daily with placebo in COPD patients with evidence of e...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Sign the informed consent form prior to any study-specific procedure.
  • Male or female, aged 40 to 75 years, inclusive, at the time of Screening.
  • Have a COPD clinic diagnostic according to Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2022 with a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC \<0.7 at Screening (Visit 1)
  • Have a post-bronchodilator FEV1 \>40% ≤ 70% of the predicted value at Screening (Visit 1)
  • Smoking history of more than 10 pack/years (\[number of cigarettes smoked per day x number of years smoked\]/20)
  • Must have been able to understand and comply with the requirements of the study, as judged by the investigator.
  • Have some kind of emphysema (centrolobulillar or paraseptal) reported by an expert radiologist.
  • Have a certified decrease of the Lung Function in the last 3 years \>40 ml/ml per year of FEV1.
  • Women in childbearing age with negative pregnancy test.

Exclusion

  • Participating in another clinic trial with any commercially or investigational biological medicinal product within 4 months prior to Screening.
  • Patients who take oral corticosteroids chronically.
  • Respiratory track infection history (superior respiratory tract included) and pulmonary exarcerbation within 6 weeks prior to Screening.
  • Lung resection or lung volume reduction surgery within 12 months prior to Screening (Visit 1), or lung trasplant history, or, as judged by the investigator, patient may have required a thoracotomy or other lung surgery during the study.
  • Known active tuberculosis.
  • History of intersticial lung or massive pulmonary thromboembolic disease.
  • History of bronchiectasis secondary to respiratory diseasesother than COPD (e.g. cystic fibrosis, Kartagener's syndrome, etc.).
  • Any clinically significant disease or disorder (e.g. cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal (GFR \< 30 ml/min), neurological, musculoskeletal, endocrine, metabolic, psychiatric, and major physical impairment) that, in the opinion of the investigator, could have placed the patient at risk for participation in the study, could have influenced the study results, or could have affected the patient's ability to participate in the study.
  • Recent history (within 12 months prior to screening \[Visit 1\]) of myocardial infarction, recent history of heart failure (New York Heart Association \[NYHA\] classes III and IV), pulmonary oedema and/or cardiac arrhythmia.
  • History of cancer (within 5 years prior to Visit 1), except non-metastatic skin cancer and non-melanoma.
  • Patients who cannot perform spirometry manoeuvres or tolerate plethysmography.
  • Contraindications to the use of metformin: allergy to the drug, advanced renal failure (CKD stage 3 and above), patients on dialysis, chronic metabolic or respiratory acidosis or liver cirrhosis.
  • Patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with or without previous use of metformin.
  • Pregnant women, nursing mothers or women of childbearing age who are not going to use contraceptive methods.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 1 2029

Estimated Enrollment :

212 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06999343

Start Date

September 1 2025

End Date

September 1 2029

Last Update

May 31 2025

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