Study to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of investigational drug obeticholic acid (OCA) in combination with the investigational drug bezafibrate (BZF) in participants with Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
75
5 mg tablet of OCA once daily titrating up to a maximum of 10 mg OCA once daily
200 mg IR tablet of Bezafibrate once daily for the remainder of the study
One tablet daily for the remainder of the study
Change in Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) from baseline to Week 12 in the DB Treatment Period
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
Response rates of ≥10%, ≥20%, ≥30% and ≥40% reduction, and normalization of biochemical disease marker Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP)
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12
Number of participants with normalization rates of biochemical disease marker Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT), Gamma-Glutamyl Transpeptidase (GGT), Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST), total and conjugated bilirubin and lipid panel
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12
Change in GGT from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
Change in ALT from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
Change in AST from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
Change in total and conjugated bilirubin from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
Change in lipid panel from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
Change in 7 alpha (α) hydroxy 4 cholesten-3 one (C4) from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4, 8, and 12
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One tablet daily for the remainder of the study
400 mg SR tablet of Bezafibrate once daily for the remainder of the study
One tablet daily for the remainder of the study
OCA one tablet will be administered.
Bezafibrate one tablet will be administered.
Flinders Medical Centre
Bedford Park, Perth, Australia
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Adelaide, Australia
UZ Gasthuisberg
Leuven, Belgium
Clinical Hospital Dubrava
Zagreb, Croatia
Zagreb University Hospital Center
Zagreb, Croatia
Hepato-Gastroenterologie HK, s.r.o.
Hradec Králové, Czechia
Artroscan s.r.o., Gastroenterologicka ambulance
Ostrava, Czechia
Research Site s.r.o.
Pilsen, Czechia
Tartu University Hospital
Tartu, Estonia
Hôpital Henri Mondor
Créteil, France
...and 23 more locations
Change in bile acid from baseline to Week 12
Time frame: Baseline, Day 1, and Weeks 4,8, and 12