This is a highly significant result for Low Dose Naltrexone as it's a Phase II study which was carried out under randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled conditions.
Summary -
45% of 40 patients achieved remission inside 12 weeks.
(Note, clinical experience shows it can take more than 3 months to really get results with LDN and certainly 4.5mg is often too high a dose too).
82% of the 40 patients had their Crohn's improve by around 20% or more in terms of its activity.
Healing was reported in the endoscopy studies too.
Although this is not quite as impressive a result as the first study, it is at least as good as many other treatments and with a lot, lot less side effects (Only reversible liver enzyme changes reported).
For comparison, this anti-TNF treatment managed 40% remission after 5 years, chances are LDN could be 5%+ better than that :
Healing was reported in the endoscopy studies too.
Although this is not quite as impressive a result as the first study, it is at least as good as many other treatments and with a lot, lot less side effects (Only reversible liver enzyme changes reported).
For comparison, this anti-TNF treatment managed 40% remission after 5 years, chances are LDN could be 5%+ better than that :
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/DDW/19885
Remicade + azathioprine managed roughly 50% remission after 26 weeks, but that is of course at a big price financially and in terms of side-effects -
http://www.webmd.com/ibd-crohns-disease/crohns-disease/news/20100414/combination-therapy-treats-crohns-disease
Obviously a Phase III study will be interesting now as it will have a much bigger patient population and maybe run longer too.
Would be interesting to see how the remission rate is after another 3 months.
Would be even more interesting to see how it was if the patients were allowed to decrease dose too.
Note that Dr Smith has another study starting on Vitamin D with Crohn's too.
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