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UnknownPhase 3

Long-acting Exenatide and Cognitive Decline in Dysglycemic Patients

Long-acting Exenatide: a Tool to Stop Cognitive Decline in Dysglycemic Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment?

Asset

Exenatide

Subcutaneous · GLP-1 agonist

Listed sites

2

Recruiting sites

Enrollment

40

estimated

Study population

Alzheimer's / cognition, Prediabetes / glucose intolerance

Key I/E criterion

HbA1c 5.7-6.4%

Primary endpoint

Improvement of ADAS-cog Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale

Footprint

Where this trial recruits

Site locations as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov. Site count is not enrollment count; per-site enrollment is not available from source.

Identifiers

Registered as

NCT IDNCT02847403
Org study ID2015-001850-13

Timeline

Milestones

Study first posted2016-07-28estimated
Last update posted2021-08-17actual
Study completion2021-10-31estimated
Study start2016-02 (month precision)
Primary completion2019-07actual (month precision)

Assets

Investigational agents

Study populations

Who this study enrolls

Alzheimer's / cognitionPrediabetes / glucose intolerance

Eligibility

Who can enroll

Minimum age51 Years
Maximum age79 Years
SexAll
Healthy volunteersNot accepted

Inclusion criteria

patients capable of giving informed consent
dysglycemia/prediabetes defined as fasting plasma glucose between 100 and 125 mg/dl and/or 2-hour plasma glucose between 140 and 199 mg/dl after a 75 g OGTT and/or a HbA1c value between 5.7 and 6.4%
diagnosis of MCI according to the Petersen clinical criteria (the expected corrected scores at the MMSE are from 24 to 27)
age >50<80 yrs
stable medication for the past 3 months
Caucasian ethnicity

Exclusion criteria

age <50>80 yrs
incapability to give informed consent
diabetes defined according to American Diabetes Association (ADA) criteria
clinically significant liver or kidney dysfunction defined as s-ALT > 2 times upper reference or estimated creatinine-clearance (eGFR) < 60 mL / min/1.73m2, assessed by with CKD-EPI formula
endocrinological diseases other than well controlled hypothyroidism, personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) syndrome, severe gastro-intestinal diseases (i.e gastroparesis, dumping syndromes), current or history of chronic or acute pancreatitis
any contraindication to the use of exenatide as per the Summary of Product Characteristics
known abuse of alcohol or drugs
ferro-magnetic prosthesis, pacemaker or other metals incorporated in the body
significant neurologic disease other than MCI (i.e. Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy, normal pressure hydrocephalus, progressive supranuclear palsy, subarachnoid hemorrhage, brain neoplasms, Huntington disease, epilepsy or head trauma)
BMI ≤22 Kg/m2 in subject ≥ 70 yrs
MRI/CT showing unambiguous etiological evidence of cerebrovascular disease with regard to MCI
severe sensory defects; current presence of clinically significant psychiatric disorder
warfarin treatment, clinically significant systemic condition
history of cancer within the last 5 yrs
known allergy to exenatide or any of the other components.

Endpoints (11)

What's being measured

Protocol endpoints and posted registry outcome measures, grouped into outcome categories. Composite endpoints show their component event types. Standard codes (LOINC, SNOMED CT) are shown where available.

Coverage by outcome category

Other clinical outcomes
10
Patient-reported / QoL
1

Patient-reported / QoL

1 endpoint
Secondary/protocol endpoint

Improvement of Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Other clinical outcomes

10 endpoints
Primary/protocol endpoint/low confidence

Improvement of ADAS-cog Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale defined by ADAS-cog score at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint

Improvement of Mini Mental State Evaluation test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint/low confidence

Improvement of Mini Mental State Evaluation quality test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint/low confidence

Improvement of Phonemic verbal fluency test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint/low confidence

Improvement of Semantic verbal fluency test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint/low confidence

Improvement of Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint/low confidence

Improvement of Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint

Improvement of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint

Improvement of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) test at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3) compared to baseline

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, improvement

Secondary/protocol endpoint

changes in structural and functional connectivity of neural networks as assessed by functional MRI (fMRI) at 16 (V2) and at 32 weeks (V3)

Time frame:16 and 32 weeks

change from baseline, descriptive

Publications (4)

Bibliography

Records linked to this trial through ClinicalTrials.gov references, PubMed NCT search, and curated study seeds. 'Canonical' marks design/result papers; others are registry references or candidates.

Registry references + supporting bibliography

Provenance

Sources

Trial identity, design, statusClinicalTrials.gov API v2
Snapshot dateJuly 1, 2026
Endpoint classificationDelfa endpoint taxonomy v2 (May 13, 2026)
Results tableno registry results posted yet

Trial facts come from public ClinicalTrials.gov records. Endpoint categories are Delfa's classification of those records, not a ClinicalTrials.gov field. All figures reflect the July 1, 2026 snapshot.