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Research on Optimal Strategy of Hypoglycemic Therapy for Cirrhosis With Diabetes

Research on Optimal Strategy of Hypoglycemic Therapy for Cirrhosis With Diabetes

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05641337
Enrollment
184
Registered
2022-12-07
Start date
2022-10-01
Completion date
2025-12-30
Last updated
2022-12-07

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Diabetes, Liver Cirrhosis

Keywords

Liver cirrhosis, diabetes, time in range, insulin intensive therapy, new combination therapy

Brief summary

Poor blood glucose control in liver cirrhosis can aggravate the poor prognosis of patients. Under the background of the increasing number of liver cirrhosis patients with metabolic abnormalities, how to optimize treatment is particularly important. The traditional treatment of diabetes at the stage of liver cirrhosis is limited to insulin intensive therapy, but the incidence of hypoglycemia is high, blood sugar fluctuates greatly, and multiple injections are required. Research shows that insulin therapy has an increased overall mortality compared with non insulin therapy. We used metformin,Ryzodeg and an oral DDP IV enzyme inhibitor as the core combination according to the special pathological mechanism of elevated blood glucose in liver cirrhosis . After preliminary experiments, we found that the program was stable and was not easy to have hypoglycemia, and there was no traditional risk of lactic acid poisoning caused by metformin. We designed an open randomized controlled clinical study, Compared with the traditional insulin intensive treatment scheme, this new combination scheme was compared whether it could improve the blood glucose level, the incidence of hypoglycemia and lactic acid level, the incidence of cirrhosis complications, and the long-term survival rate of liver disease. This study is helpful to optimize the hypoglycemic treatment of cirrhosis with diabetes, and improve the blood glucose and long-term prognosis, The positive evidence of this study contributes to the consensus or guidelines for the treatment of cirrhosis with diabetes.

Detailed description

Cirrhosis with diabetes refers to the increase of blood sugar in cirrhosis, including cirrhosis before or after diabetes. It has a special pathophysiological mechanism that liver factors participate in blood glucose regulation. Poor blood glucose control in liver cirrhosis can aggravate the poor prognosis of patients. Under the background of the increasing number of liver cirrhosis patients with metabolic abnormalities, how to optimize treatment is particularly important. The traditional treatment of diabetes at the stage of liver cirrhosis is limited to insulin intensive therapy, but the incidence of hypoglycemia is high, blood sugar fluctuates greatly, and multiple injections are required. Research shows that insulin therapy has an increased overall mortality compared with non insulin therapy. We used metformin, ,Ryzodeg and an oral DDP IV enzyme inhibitor as the core combination according to the special pathological mechanism of elevated blood glucose in liver cirrhosis from multiple links. After preliminary experiments, we found that the program was stable and was not easy to have hypoglycemia, and there was no traditional risk of lactic acid poisoning caused by metformin. We designed an open randomized controlled clinical study, Compared with the traditional insulin intensive treatment scheme, this new combination scheme was compared whether it could improve the blood glucose level, the incidence of hypoglycemia and lactic acid level, the incidence of cirrhosis complications, and the long-term survival rate of liver disease. This study is helpful to optimize the hypoglycemic treatment of cirrhosis with diabetes, and improve the blood glucose and long-term prognosis of such patients, The positive evidence of this study contributes to the consensus or guidelines for the treatment of cirrhosis with diabetes.

Interventions

The hypoglycemic scheme of the experimental group was that the initial dose of Insulin Degludec and Insulin Aspart was 0.3U/kg multiplied by the patient's weight, plus 5 mg of linagliptin and 0.5 g of metformin three times a day. The control group was treated with traditional four needle insulin.

Sponsors

Huashan Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Liver cirrhosis * Age 18-70 years * Patients with elevated blood sugar who meet the diabetes standard or have been treated with hypoglycemic drugs * random finger or venous serum blood glucose more than 14 mmol/L

Exclusion criteria

* Those unwilling to participate or unable to cooperate; * Child-pugh score is greater than 12; * Glomerular filtration rate\<60ml/min/1.73m2; * Patients with cardiac insufficiency; * Patients with asymptomatic hypoglycemia; * Pregnant patients were excluded; * Patients with advanced liver cancer; * Blood pressure is less than 90/60mmHg; * Chronic liver disease plus acute or subacute liver failure; * Patients with drug induced blood glucose disorder, such as glucocorticoids, contraceptives, etc; * fingertip oxygen saturation less than 95% without oxygen inhalation; * Autoimmune liver cirrhosis is currently taking hormone. * Type 1 diabetes. * Pancreatogenic diabetes, such as primary hemochromatosis, hepatolenticular degeneration, alcoholic pancreatitis, autoimmune diseases involving the pancreas, etc.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
time in rangetwo weekstime in range
Blood lactic acid leveltwo weekBlood lactic acid level
Compound adverse eventstwo weekincludetimes of hypolgycemia attack,severe hypoglycemia attack and serum lactic acid more than 2.2 mmol/L, complications of liver cirrhosis within two week

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Blood lactic acidtwo weeksBlood lactic acid
Glycated Albumintwo weekGlycated Albumin
three month mortalitythree monthsthree month mortality
mean blood glucosetwo weeksmean blood glucose
Incidence rate of complications of liver cirrhosis within three monthsthree monthsIncidence rate of complications of liver cirrhosis within three months
Incidence rate of complications of liver cirrhosis within six monthssix monthsIncidence rate of complications of liver cirrhosis within six months
Six month mortalitysix monthsSix month mortality
Time above rangetwo weeksTime above range
Time below rangetwo weeksTime below range

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactXiaolong Zhao, PhD
xiaolongzhao@163.com13501827230
Backup ContactDuoduo Qu, Master
quduoduonju@163.com19852812469

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026