{"id":1794,"date":"2018-12-31T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2018-12-31T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:00:51","slug":"a-randomized-double-blind-study-comparing-standard-treatment-versus-placebo-for-the-treatment-of-influenza-in-low-risk-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/studies\/1794\/","title":{"rendered":"A randomized double-blind study comparing standard treatment versus placebo for the treatment of influenza in low risk adults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Project no.:<\/strong> HIV-NAT 165\/IRC 004<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a randomized blinded study\nthat will evaluate whether the standard treatment modifies viral shedding in an\nambulatory population with uncomplicated influenza and explore the relationship\nbetween virologic effects and clinical effects, effects on proinflammatory\nmediators, and to start understanding if improvements to virologic shedding\ncorrelate with improvements in clinical outcomes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brief Summary:<\/strong> Seasonal influenza is responsible for excess hospitalizations and, despite effective antivirals, causes significant morbidity and mortality (about 24,000 deaths each year in the United States alone). The influenza virus that emerged in 2009 (A\/California\/07\/2009 H1N1) caused fewer deaths (12,000 flu-related deaths in the U.S.) but in contrast to seasonal flu, nearly 90% of the deaths with the 2009 H1N1 occurred among people younger than 65 years of age. Although there are four currently licensed anti-influenza medications (amantadine and rimantadine, oseltamivir, and zanamivir), previous studies have not demonstrated conclusively to what extent these medications affect influenza viral shedding. This study will evaluate whether oseltamivir modifies the viral shedding during the treatment of uncomplicated influenza in an adult population and also assess methods to detect viral replication in the upper respiratory tract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subjects\nwho present with an influenza-like illness without any risk factors for severe\ndisease will be screened for the study. Those with a confirmatory test for\ninfluenza (rapid antigen or polymerase chain reaction [PCR]) will be randomized\nin a 1:1 manner to receive a blinded study treatment consisting of either the\noseltamivir or placebo for 5 days. Clinical, virologic, and laboratory\nassessments on Days 1, 3, 7, and 28 will be used for both safety and efficacy\nanalysis.<\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is a randomized blinded study that will evaluate whether the standard treatment modifies viral shedding in an ambulatory population with uncomplicated influenza and explore the relationship between virologic effects and clinical effects, effects on proinflammatory mediators, and to start understanding if improvements to virologic shedding correlate with improvements in clinical outcomes. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivnat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}