Overview

A Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, 12 Week Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Tiotropium Inhalation Capsules (Spiriva) on the Magnitude of Exercise, Measured Using an Accelerometer, in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (C

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2005-10-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
The objective of this study is to determine if tiotropium (Spiriva, Bromuro de Tiotropio) 18 mcg once daily by oral inhalation compared to placebo increases the magnitude of daily physical activity observed in COPD patients, measured using an accelerometer.
Phase:
Phase 3
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Treatments:
Bromides
Tiotropium Bromide
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- All patients must sign an Informed Consent Form consistent with ICH-GPC guidelines
prior to participation in the trial

- Diagnosis of COPD and meets the following spirometric criteria:

- The patients must present with relatively stable* airway obstruction

- An FEV1 <= 65% of the predicted normal value and an FEV1 <= 70% of the FVC, at
visit 1 (screening). This must be confirmed at visit 2 (baseline).

- Male or female patients of 40 years of age or older.

- The patients must be smokers or ex-smokers with a history of having smoked at least 10
pack-years.

- The patients must be able to carry out all the tests related to the study, including
the slow and forced spirometry and the 6 minute walk test, exactly as required in the
protocol.

- The patients must be able to inhale the medication by means of the HandiHaler.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Those patients with significant diseases other than COPD will be excluded.

- Patients who regularly use daytime oxygen therapy for more than 1 hour per day and in
the investigator's opinion will be unable to abstain from the use of oxygen therapy
during the study.

- Patients with any respiratory tract infection in the past six weeks prior to the
screening visit (Visit 1) or during the run-in period, prior to Visit 2 (baseline).

- Patients with a past history of asthma, allergic rhinitis or atopy, or who present a
total eosinophil count >= 600 mm3. No new eosinophil count will be undertaken in these
patients.