Transatlantic, multi-center, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind clinical trial to demonstrate that transdermal nicotine treatment retards parkinson's disease progression as measured by change in total (part I, II, III) UPDRS score between baseline and after 52 weeks of study treatment plus two more months wash out (60 weeks).
Sponsor: Philipps-University Marburg
SEEK ID: https://ldh.kks-marburg.imise.uni-leipzig.de/projects/5
Public web page: Not specified
NFDI4Health PIs: No PIs for this Trial Project
Trial Project start date: 17th Oct 2012
Trial Project end date: 15th Sep 2016
- : Study
- : A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-centre trial to assess the disease-modifying potential of transdermal nicotine in early Parkinson's disease in Germany and the USA
- : English
- : NIC-PD
- : English
- : Transatlantic, multi-center, placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind clinical trial to demonstrate that transdermal nicotine treatment retards parkinson's disease progression as measured by change in total (part I, II, III) UPDRS score between baseline and after 52 weeks of study treatment plus two more months wash out (60 weeks).
- : English
- : transdermal nicotine treatment
- : Parkinson's Disease
- : Organisational
- Details about the contributing organisation(s)/institution(s)/group(s)
- : Sponsor (secondary)
- : Not specified
- : Philipps-University Marburg/KKS
- Details about the contributing person(s)
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- Digital identifier(s)
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : info@kks.uni-marburg.de
- : Not specified
- Organisation(s) associated with the contributor
- : Philipps-University Marburg/KKS
- : Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 4, 35043 Marburg
- : https://www.kks.uni-marburg.de
- Digital identifier(s)
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : EudraCT
- : 2010-020299-42
- : Interventional
- Specification of the type of the Project
- : Parallel
- : []
- Primary health condition(s) or disease(s) considered in the Project
- : Parkinson's Disease
- : ICD-10
- : Not specified
- Groups of diseases or conditions(*)
- : Diseases of the nervous system (VI)
- : []
- : Not specified
- Administrative information about the Project
- : Request for approval submitted, approval granted
- : Completed: Recruitment, data collection, and data quality management completed normally
- : No
- : 17 October 2012
- : 15 September 2016
- : Multicentric
- : 14
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Person
- Eligibility criteria for Project participants
- Eligibility criteria: Minimum age
- : 30
- : Years
- Eligibility criteria: Maximum age
- : 99
- : Years
- : Male, Female
- : see protocol
- : see protocol
- Population of the Project(*)
- : International
- : Germany, United States
- : nationwide
- Interventions of the Project
- : Transdermal nicotine patch (7 to 28 mg/day, highest well-tolerated dose)
- : Combination product (combining a drug and device, a biological product and device; a drug and biological product; or a drug, biological product, and device)
- : Not specified
- : Experimental
- Exposures of the Project
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- Outcome measures in the Project
- : disease-modifying potential of transdermal nicotine treatment
- : The primary endpoint is calculated as the difference between the nicotine arm and the placebo arm in the change in total UPDRS I-III score between baseline and 60 weeks (14 months) (52 weeks treatment plus 8 weeks wash-out).
- : Primary
- : 2-12 months
- : Not specified
- : []
- Data sharing strategy of the Project(*)
- : Undecided, it is not yet known if data will be made available
- : []
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- Non-interventional aspects of the Project
- : []
- Target follow-up duration of the Project
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : Not specified
- : []
- : Not specified
- Interventional aspects of the Project
- : Phase-2
- Masking of intervention(s) assignment
- : true
- : Participant, Care provider
- : Not specified
- : Randomized
- : Not specified
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Institutions: Philipps-University Marburg, Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials

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Abstract (Expand)
Authors: W. H. Oertel, H. H. Muller, M. M. Unger, C. Schade-Brittinger, K. Balthasar, K. Articus, M. Brinkman, C. S. Venuto, F. Tracik, J. Eberling, K. M. Eggert, C. Kamp, K. Kieburtz, J. T. Boyd
Date Published: 8th Feb 2024
Publication Type: Journal
PubMed ID: 38320207
Citation: NEJM Evid. 2023 Sep;2(9):EVIDoa2200311. doi: 10.1056/EVIDoa2200311. Epub 2023 Aug 22.
Creator: Gerrit zur Hausen
Submitter: Gerrit zur Hausen