Affiliation:
1. Department of Neuropsychiatry Kansai Medical University Osaka Japan
2. Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. Tokyo Japan
Abstract
AbstractAfter completion of a 6‐week double‐blind trial of asenapine sublingual tablets (10 or 20 mg/day) versus placebo in Asian patients with acute exacerbation of schizophrenia, including Japanese patients, this open‐label study evaluated the safety and efficacy of a 52‐week treatment with asenapine at flexible doses. In 201 subjects, including 44 who had received placebo (P/A group) and 157 who had received asenapine (A/A group) in the feeder trial, adverse events occurred at rates of 90.9% and 85.4% and serious adverse events at rates of 11.4% and 20.4%, respectively. One patient in the P/A group died. No clinically significant abnormal measurements of body weight, body mass index, or glycated hemoglobin, fasting plasma glucose, insulin, and prolactin levels were observed. The sustained efficacy rate, as evaluated by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale total score and other measures, remained at approximately 50% between 6 and 12 months of treatment. These results suggest that long‐term treatment with asenapine is well tolerated and provides sustained efficacy.
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Psychiatry and Mental health,Pharmacology,Clinical Psychology
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