I am wondering how these trials are going?
Has anyone any first hand experience with a relative etc, who is on the trial, wether Liraglutide is making any difference, positive or negative?
The trial appears to be ongoing and the phase should complete next year.
Not a very big sample size.
Estimated Enrollment: 206
Study Start Date: January 2014
Estimated Study Completion Date: January 2017
Estimated Primary Completion Date: January 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01843075
you raise a good point Mal
I have searched the internet but I cannot find any update on this trial
the Alzheimer's Society printed their first report on this subject in 2013
Diabetes drug may reverse Alzheimer's and enters major clinical trial
Published 11 September 2013
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=1779
My post was in 2015
It would be interesting to find out if this was only one of those trials we read about and never hear any thing more ,that makes so many members cynical about them
jimbo
That is another sad thing, why not try everyone with the drug, that to me is the only way to get a true result of what it does.
There are excellent reasons why a drug trial has to have some portion of the people enrolled in it on a placebo (or in some cases an alternate drug). Without this protocol, it would be impossible to state if the effects that were being seen were just wishful thinking. In situations where trials show dramatically positively effects, it's not unheard of for the trial to be curtailed so that the protocol can be extended to everyone, but it wouldn't be a trial without a control group. And lets not forget, it's not unheard of for drug trials to be stopped because of unexpected side-effects from the so called active drug.