Clinical Trial of Vildagliptin in Early Parkinson's Disease

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age40-75
SponsorFirst Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University

About this trial

Investigating the efficacy of Vildagliptin in delaying the progression of Parkinson's disease.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

1: Patients aged 40 to 75 years who were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease according to the UK Brain Bank criteria within the past three years.

Disqualifiers

1: The key exclusion criterion is a score of at least 3 on the Hoehn and Yahr scale (ranging from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating more severe disability), which indicates that Parkinson's disease has led to at least mild to moderate bilateral motor involvement due to some postural instability.

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Vildagliptin 50 mg bid

    Drug

    Vildagliptin 50 mg bid for 12months

Treatment groups

66 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Conventional medication plus Vildagliptin treatment groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: conventional medication treatment groupNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

The change in the third part of the Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) after 12 months of oral Vildagliptin treatment compared to baseline

MDS-UPDRS Part III mainly includes motor symptoms (total score 0-132 points), with scores ranging from 0 to 132 The higher the symptom, the more severe it is.

Time frame
baseline, pre-intervention;12 months,month 12

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

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