The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of pioglitazone at 24 months compared with placebo on cognitive decline in high-risk participants who have completed the AD-4833/TOMM40\_301 study \[NCT01931566\] with an adjudicated diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
The drug being tested in this study is called pioglitazone. This study is designed to further evaluate the safety and effectiveness of pioglitazone on cognitive function in participants who have completed the AD-4833/TOMM40\_301. This study will look at the effectiveness of pioglitazone on cognitive decline in high-risk participants who have completed the AD-4833/TOMM40\_301 study with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The study enrolled 40 participants, but is dependent on how many decide to continue treatment in an extension phase after completing the main (301) study. Participants will continue to receive the same study medication they received during the pivotal AD-4833/TOMM40\_301 study, either: * Pioglitazone 0.8 mg tablets or * Placebo (this is a tablet that looks like the study drug but has no active ingredient). All participants will be asked to take one tablet at the same time each day throughout the study. This multi-centre trial, like its precedent pivotal trial, will be conducted worldwide. The overall time to participate in this study is minimum 2 years and a maximum of 7 years depending on when participants roll over from the 301 study. Participants will make approximately 2 visits per year to the clinic, and will be contacted by telephone 3 months after each treatment visit for a follow-up assessment, and 2 weeks after the final visit.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
40
Pioglitazone tablets
Pioglitazone placebo-matching tablets
Change From Extension Study Baseline in Composite Score of a Broad Cognitive Test Battery at Month 24
Composite scores were derived from the test battery. Each test in the battery falls into 1 of the following cognitive domains: Episodic Memory (California Verbal Learning Test - 2nd Edition \[CVLT-II\], Brief Visuospatial Memory Test - Revised \[BVMT-R\]), Executive Function (Trail Making Part B, Digit Span Backwards), Language (Animals, Lexical/Phonemic Fluency), Attention (Digit Span Forward, Trail Making Part A), and Visuospatial (Clock Drawing, BVMT-Copy). Only the domains of episodic memory, executive function, language, and attention were used for the calculation of composite score (i.e., Clock Drawing, BVMT-Copy, and the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT), which do not allow generation of standard z scores, were only used for diagnostic purposes and were excluded from the calculation of the composite score). To form the composite, z-scores were calculated for each test, each z-score for the domain were averaged, and then all relevant domains were averaged to form the composite.
Time frame: Baseline and Month 24
Time to Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Dementia
Time frame: Day 1 and every 6 months (up to maximum of 36 months)
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