Dose Response Study in Japanese Patients

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicentre, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Dose-Response and Safety of Tesaglitazar Therapy in Japanese Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes

This is a 12-week study to determine the effect on glucose and lipids, safety, and tolerability of four doses of tesaglitazar (0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1 mg) compared with placebo in patients with type 2 diabetes. Improvement in dyslipidemia will be evaluated. The study comprises a 2-week screening period, 4-week placebo run-in, a 12-week randomized, double blind, parallel group, multi-center, placebo-controlled treatment period, and a 3-week follow-up.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Provision of a written informed consent
• Men or women who are >=18 years of age
• Female patients: postmenopausal, hysterectomized
• Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
• Treated with diet alone or treatment with a single oral antidiabetic agent or low doses of two oral anti-diabetic agents

Exclusion Criteria:

• Type 1 diabetes
• New York Heart Association heart failure Class III or IV
• Treatment with chronic insulin
• History of hypersensitivity or intolerance to any peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonist (like Actos or Avandia), fenofibrate, metformin or 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin)
• History of drug-induced myopathy or drug-induced creatine kinase elevation, liver enzyme elevations, neutropenia (low white blood cells)
• Creatinine levels above twice the normal range
• Creatine kinase above 3 times the upper limit of normal
• Received any investigational product in other clinical studies within 12 weeks
• Any clinically significant abnormality identified on physical examination, laboratory tests or electrocardiogram, which in the judgment of the investigator would compromise the patient's safety or successful participation in the clinical study