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Clinical Trial
. 2021 Mar 17;13(1):62.
doi: 10.1186/s13195-021-00795-7.

A 36-week multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, phase 3 clinical trial of sodium oligomannate for mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's dementia

Shifu Xiao #  1   2 Piu Chan #  3 Tao Wang #  4   5 Zhen Hong  6 Shuzhen Wang  7 Weihong Kuang  8 Jincai He  9 Xiaoping Pan  10 Yuying Zhou  11 Yong Ji  11 Luning Wang  12 Yan Cheng  13 Ying Peng  14 Qinyong Ye  15 Xiaoping Wang  16 Yuncheng Wu  16 Qiumin Qu  17 Shengdi Chen  18 Shuhua Li  19 Wei Chen  20 Jun Xu  21 Dantao Peng  22 Zhongxin Zhao  23 Yansheng Li  24 Junjian Zhang  25 Yifeng Du  26 Weixian Chen  27 Dongsheng Fan  28 Yong Yan  29 Xiaowei Liu  30 Wei Zhang  31 Benyan Luo  32 Wenyuan Wu  33 Lu Shen  34 Chunfeng Liu  35 Peixian Mao  36 Qiumei Wang  37 Qianhua Zhao  6 Qihao Guo  6 Yongtao Zhou  3 Yi Li  7 Lijun Jiang  8 Wenwei Ren  9 Yingjun Ouyang  10 Yan Wang  11 Shuai Liu  11 Jianjun Jia  12 Nan Zhang  13 Zhonglin Liu  14 Raoli He  15 Tingyi Feng  16 Wenhui Lu  17 Huidong Tang  18 Ping Gao  19 Yingchun Zhang  20 Lanlan Chen  21 Lei Wang  22 You Yin  23 Qun Xu  24 Jinsong Xiao  25 Lin Cong  26 Xi Cheng  27 Hui Zhang  28 Dan Gao  29 Minghua Xia  30 Tenghong Lian  31 Guoping Peng  32 Xu Zhang  33 Bin Jiao  34 Hua Hu  35 Xueyan Chen  36 Yihui Guan  6 Ruixue Cui  37 Qiu Huang  38 Xianliang Xin  39 Hongjian Chen  39 Yu Ding  39 Jing Zhang  39 Teng Feng  39 Marc Cantillon  39 Kewei Chen  40 Jeffrey L Cummings  41 Jian Ding  42 Meiyu Geng  43 Zhenxin Zhang  44
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Clinical Trial

A 36-week multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, phase 3 clinical trial of sodium oligomannate for mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's dementia

Shifu Xiao et al. Alzheimers Res Ther. .
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Abstract

Background: New therapies are urgently needed for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Sodium oligomannate (GV-971) is a marine-derived oligosaccharide with a novel proposed mechanism of action. The first phase 3 clinical trial of GV-971 has been completed in China.

Methods: We conducted a phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in participants with mild-to-moderate AD to assess GV-971 efficacy and safety. Participants were randomized to placebo or GV-971 (900 mg) for 36 weeks. The primary outcome was the drug-placebo difference in change from baseline on the 12-item cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS-cog12). Secondary endpoints were drug-placebo differences on the Clinician's Interview-Based Impression of Change with caregiver input (CIBIC+), Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) scale, and Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Safety and tolerability were monitored.

Results: A total of 818 participants were randomized: 408 to GV-971 and 410 to placebo. A significant drug-placebo difference on the ADAS-Cog12 favoring GV-971 was present at each measurement time point, measurable at the week 4 visit and continuing throughout the trial. The difference between the groups in change from baseline was - 2.15 points (95% confidence interval, - 3.07 to - 1.23; p < 0.0001; effect size 0.531) after 36 weeks of treatment. Treatment-emergent adverse event incidence was comparable between active treatment and placebo (73.9%, 75.4%). Two deaths determined to be unrelated to drug effects occurred in the GV-971 group.

Conclusions: GV-971 demonstrated significant efficacy in improving cognition with sustained improvement across all observation periods of a 36-week trial. GV-971 was safe and well-tolerated.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT0229391 5. Registered on November 19, 2014.

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; Clinical trial; Efficacy; Safety; Sodium oligomannate.

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Conflict of interest statement

Shifu Xiao and Zhenxin Zhang have been the provisional consultants of Pfizer, Lilly, Novartis, Roche, GSK, Johnson & Johnson, Lundbeck, Biogen, and Green Valley and received honorariums. Xianliang Xin, Hongjian Chen, Yu Ding, Jing Zhang, and Marc Cantillon were full-time employees of Shanghai Green Valley Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Kewei Chen was a full-time employee of Shanghai Green Valley Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. at the time the [18F]-FDG-PET data was analyzed. Currently, he is a full-time employee of Banner Health to which Banner Alzheimer’s Institute belongs, and serves as a paid consultant to Shanghai Green Valley Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Jeffrey L. Cummings has provided consultation to Acadia, Actinogen, Alkahest, Alzheon, Avanir, Axsome, BiOasis Technologies, Biogen, Cerecin, CNS Innovations, Cortexyme, EIP, Eisai, Genentech, Green Valley, Grifols, Hisun, Idorsia, Merck, Otsuka, Resverlogix, Roche, Samus, Samumed, Sunovion, Suven, and United Neuroscience pharmaceutical and assessment companies.

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Enrollment, randomization, and completion. *Not treated n = 1, in GV-971 group
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Mean ADAS-Cog12 score change from baseline at weeks 4, 12, 24, and 36 (observed value). The mean change from baseline to week 36 on the ADAS-Cog12 (with scores ranging from 0 to 75 and higher scores indicating greater impairment) by full analysis set was showed. Error bars represent standard errors (SE). p values are obtained from the Wilcoxon rank sum tests
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Secondary outcome of CIBIC+ at week 36. p value is obtained from a stratified Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) test, including stratification factors of MMSE at baseline, education level, and age group
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Analyses for the change in primary and secondary outcomes from baseline to week 36. *The direction of the ADCS-ADL change scores was reversed for consistency with the other outcomes
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Mean ADAS-Cog12 score change from baseline at weeks 4, 12, 24, and 36 (observed value) on the ADAS-Cog12 by the MMSE subgroup. Error bars represent standard errors (SE). p values are obtained from the Wilcoxon rank sum tests

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