Study type

Study topic

DiseaseĀ /health condition
Human medicinal product

Study type

Non-interventional study

Scope of the study

Effectiveness study (incl. comparative)
Safety study (incl. comparative)

Data collection methods

Primary data collection
Non-interventional study

Non-interventional study design

Cohort
Study drug and medical condition

Study drug International non-proprietary name (INN) or common name

LIRAGLUTIDE
DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE 4

Medical condition to be studied

Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Population studied

Short description of the study population

Consecutive patients with type 2 diabetes initiated on liraglutide or a DPP-4 inhibitor and primarily managed in primary care with 12 (-3/+6, e.g. 9 to 18) months of available data from UK, France, Germany and Spain.

Age groups

Adults (18 to < 46 years)
Adults (46 to < 65 years)
Adults (65 to < 75 years)
Adults (75 to < 85 years)
Adults (85 years and over)

Special population of interest

Other

Special population of interest, other

Diabetes mellitus patients

Estimated number of subjects

952
Study design details

Main study objective

To demonstrate the clinical effectiveness, safety and place in clinical practice of liraglutide and DPP-4 inhibitor therapy in routine primary care across Europe.

Outcomes

-Change in HbA1c (glycosylated haemoglobin), -Change in body weight-Change in systolic blood pressure

Data analysis plan

A full statistical analysis plan will be developed. In brief, we will undertake the testing of treatment difference using a linear mixed effects model with extend the mulilevel modeling to include center and country effects. Analysis will be adjusted for baseline demographic and risk factors profiles concordant with the data collected as specified in the study protocol.
Documents
Study results
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