Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety Between Levocetirizine and Loratadine for Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria

December 11, 2013 updated by: UCB Pharma

A Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of 5 mg Levocetirizine Oral Tablets, Once Daily Versus 10 mg Loratadine Oral Tablets, Once Daily for the Treatment of Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (CIU)

Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety Between Levocetirizine and Loratadine for Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

134

Phase

  • Phase 3

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 60 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Male or female, 18 to 60 years old (inclusive
  • having chronic idiopathic urticaria
  • at least 6-weeks history of CIU, had at least 3 days of wheals presence/week
  • moderate to severe CIU defined as pruritus score ≥ 2, number of wheals ≥ 2, and total symptoms CIU score ≥ 2 at randomization

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Asthma requiring daily drug therapy other than ß2 inhaled agonists taken prn
  • atopic dermatitis or urticaria requiring an antihistamine treatment or the administration of oral or dermal topical corticosteroids
  • urticaria caused by physical factors or other known factors
  • cholinergic urticaria
  • had urticaria due to other systemic disorders
  • were on antihistamine drug currently

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
pruritus severity, assessed by the investigator over 2 weeks of treatment
Time Frame: 2 weeks
2 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Symptom score reducing index; subject severity score at 1 and 2 weeks; investigator global evaluation after 2 weeks of treatment; safety
Time Frame: 2 weeks
2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

UCB Pharma

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

August 1, 2003

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2004

Study Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2004

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 4, 2007

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 4, 2007

First Posted (Estimate)

September 5, 2007

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 12, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 11, 2013

Last Verified

September 1, 2009

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • A00334

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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