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Filter by:This is an observational study in which data from people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) who have already started or will start CKD or T2D treatment are collected and studied. In observational studies, only observations are made without specified advice or interventions. People receiving the following CKD or T2D treatments as recommended by their doctors will be included: - Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), - Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA), - Steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (sMRA), - Finerenone, a non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (nsMRA) - Other nsMRA (only in Japan) Kidneys filter extra water and waste from the blood and make urine. CKD is a long-term, progressive decrease in the kidneys' ability to properly filter blood. In people with T2D, the body does not make enough of a hormone called insulin or does not use insulin well enough, resulting in high blood sugar levels that can cause damage to the kidneys. As a result, CKD can occur as a complication of T2D. The new drug, finerenone, works by blocking certain proteins, called mineralocorticoid receptors. An increased stimulation of these proteins is thought to damage the kidneys. By lowering their stimulation, finerenone reduces the risk of progressive worsening of the kidney disease. Finerenone is available and approved in several countries for doctors to prescribe to people with CKD and T2D. The main purpose of the study is to collect and describe characteristics of participants in each treatment group who have started or will start treatment before and after finerenone became available. To do this, the researchers will collect data on: - Patient characteristics (e.g., age sex) of the participants - Clinical characteristics (e.g., history of CKD and T2D, heart and liver health, other health problems) of the participants - Treatments for T2D and CKD - Other medications used Data will be grouped by type of treatment that is initiated (e.g., SGLT2i, a GLP-1 RA, a sMRA, finerenone, or other nsMRA). Two time periods will be compared. Study period I is the time until finerenone became available in the respective country, starting from 2012 (2014 for Japan). Study period II will begin when finerenone becomes available in the respective country and will end at the end of the study (planned in September 2024). Researchers will also collect data on treatment patterns and changes for each type of treatment in both time periods. Health care data will be collected from various sources in five countries (e.g., Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, and the US). The patients will receive their treatment as prescribed by their doctors during routine practice according to the approved product information. Each patient will be in the study from first use (in Study period I and II) of one of the listed drug classes until: - End of study - The data are somehow no longer available - The patient leaves or has to leave the study
Vifor International Inc. is seeking real-world evidence (RWE) to better understand the epidemiology, patient characteristics, and management of CKD-aP in the real-world clinical setting.
Researchers are looking for a better way to treat people who have chronic kidney disease (CKD). The kidneys filter extra water and waste out of the blood and make urine. CKD is a long-term, progressive, decrease in the kidneys' ability to filter the blood properly. High blood pressure makes it more likely that the CKD gets worse. The study treatment BAY3283142 is under development for treating CKD. It activates a protein called soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) that generates cGMP - a molecule that relaxes blood vessels and is thought to have beneficial effects in CKD. The participants do not benefit from this study. However, the study will provide information on how to use BAY3283142 in subsequent studies in people with CKD. In previous studies, BAY3283142 was studied in participants with normal kidney function. As kidneys play a role in removal of drugs from the body, the degree of kidney function could influence the amount of BAY3283142 in the blood. Higher amounts may occur in people with reduced kidney function. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to learn how the study treatment BAY3283142 moves into, through, and out of the body in participants with mild to severe reduction of kidney function compared to matched participants with normal kidney function. To answer this, the researchers will compare: - the (average) total level of BAY3283142 in the blood (also called AUC). - the (average) highest level of BAY3283142 in the blood (also called cmax) between the different groups. Participants will be in one of four groups based on how much their kidney function is reduced (mild, moderate, severe, end stage kidney disease) or in the control group. All participants will take a single dose of BAY3283142 as tablet by mouth. Each participant will be in the study for approximately 4 weeks including an in-house stay of 6 days (with 5 overnight stays). In addition, a screening visit to the study site before the in-house stay is planned. During the study, the study team will: - check vital signs - do physical examinations - take blood and urine samples - examine heart health using an electrocardiogram (ECG) - ask the participants questions about how they are feeling and what adverse events they are having An adverse event is any medical problem that a participant has during a study. Doctors keep track of all adverse events that happen in studies, even if they do not think the adverse events might be related to the study treatments.
This is a pilot intervention study to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-tailored anti-inflammatory diet intervention in participants with chronic kidney disease.
For chronic kidney disease (CKD), there is a lack of unique and powerful platform for patient engagement, research studies and public health advocacy work. The National kidney Foundation (NKF) launched the first nationwide registry for people at all stages and types of CKD, including people on dialysis and kidney transplant recipients, called the NKF Patient Network (NKFPatientNetwork.org). The NKF Patient Network is a non-interventional research study which means participants will not have to take medications or do any additional tests to participate. They are simply asked to share some personal and health information, and their experiences with their disease through a secure portal. The Network also collaborates with health systems to obtain additional electronic health records (EHR) data. This unique combination of data collected will address the gap of individualized educational resources and will enhance clinical research, clinical care, and health policy decisions to be centered on the patient. The NKF Patient Network is all online and can be accessed any time of day at NKFPatientNetwork.org. Participation is voluntary and free.
Researchers are looking for a better way to treat people who have chronic kidney disease (CKD), a progressive decrease in the kidneys' ability to work properly. In people with CKD, the kidneys do not remove wastes and extra fluid from the blood as well as they should. High blood pressure makes it more likely that the CKD gets worse. The study treatment BAY3283142 is under development for treating CKD. It activates a protein called soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) that generates cGMP - a molecule that relaxes blood vessels and is thought to have beneficial effects in CKD. The participants do not benefit from this study. However, the study will provide information on how to use BAY3283142 in subsequent studies in people with CKD. As many people with CKD do also suffer from high blood pressure, this study is done in people with mild to moderate high blood pressure to safeguard the use of BAY3283142 in people with CKD in later studies. The main purpose of this study is to learn how safe different single and multiple doses of the study treatment BAY3283142 are compared to placebo in male and female participants (after menopause) with mild to moderate high blood pressure. A placebo is a treatment that looks like a medicine but does not have any medicine in it. To answer this, the researchers will compare the number of participants who have medical problems after taking BAY3283142 to those treated with placebo. Doctors keep track of all medical problems that happen in studies, even if they do not think they might be related to the study treatments. Dependent on the treatment group, the participants will either take BAY3283142 or placebo as tablet once or twice a day. Patients will take one dose for 6 days and will then be switched to a higher dose for additional 6 days. In summary, three different dose combinations consisting of two different doses each will be tested. Participants will be in the study for up to 7 weeks, including 12 treatment days (6 per dose step). They will stay in-house for 17 days starting two days before intake of the study treatment. In addition, one visit before and one visit after the in-house phase to the study site is planned. During the study, the study team will: - Check vital signs - Take blood and urine samples - Examine the participants' heart health using electrocardiogram (ECG)
The purpose of this study is to access the efficacy and safety of MC2-25 cream and MC2-25 vehicle for treatment of chronic kidney disease associated pruritus (CKD)-aP).
In this pragmatic clinical trial, which will dovetail with Veterans' routine outpatient dialysis clinic visits in six VA medical centers, the investigators will study 252 Veterans with kidney disease who need to start dialysis treatment. If a Veteran is eligible for the study by making enough residual urine, he/she will have a 50% chance to be offered the usual three-times-per-week dialysis vs. twice-per-week dialysis that is gradually increased to three-times per- week over one year. The investigators will compare health-related quality of life, how long residual kidney function lasts, and other measures including safety in these two groups. By conducting this study, the investigators hope to understand 1) whether starting dialysis with less frequency is safe, effective, and can help Veterans and their care-partners to better cope with dialysis, and 2) if incremental dialysis can result in major cost benefits to the VA health care system, thus allowing more patients to stay in VA dialysis clinics vs. being transferred to outside clinics.
The overall study objective is to collect real-world data on the safety and effectiveness of ERC to gradually increase 25D to the level required by Stage 3 and 4 CKD patients. ERC (Rayaldee), a prolonged-release calcifediol (PRC) formulation, is an orally administered prohormone of active Vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25D)) designed to increase serum total 25D safely and to a high enough magnitude to reliably reduce elevated PTH in patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD). Clinical studies show that ERC is an effective, well tolerated treatment for secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in ND-CKD patients with Vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. ERC gradually raises serum 25D levels, resulting in physiologically regulated increases in serum 1,25D and sustained and progressive reductions in PTH levels, while avoiding clinically meaningful increases in serum phosphate and calcium. To date, experience with the use of ERC results exclusively from patients from the US and mainly from patients who have participated in clinical trials. It is therefore of major interest to observe the value of ERC in daily use outside of the controlled trial settings in the US as well as in Europe. (Protocol v.2.0,06Dec2023).
Researchers are looking for a better way to treat children who have chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is long-term kidney disease, and proteinuria, a condition in which a person´s kidneys leak protein into the urine. The kidneys filter waste and fluid from the blood to form urine. In children with CKD, the kidney´s filters do not work as well as they should. This can lead to accumulation of waste and fluid in the body and proteinuria. CKD can lead to other medical problems, such as high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. Vice versa, hypertension and proteinuria can also contribute to worsening of CKD. Therefore, the treatment of CKD aims to control blood pressure and proteinuria. There are treatments available for doctors to prescribe to children with CKD and hypertension and/or proteinuria. These include "angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors" (ACEI) and "angiotensin receptor blockers" (ARB). Both ACEI and ARB can help improve kidney function by reducing the activity of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS). The RAAS is a system that works with the kidneys to control blood pressure and the balance of fluid and electrolytes in the blood. In people with CKD, the RAAS is often too active, which can impair the ability of the kidneys to work properly and cause hypertension and proteinuria. However, ACEI or ARB treatment alone does not work for all patients with CKD as they only target the angiotensin part of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. The study treatment, finerenone, is expected to help control RAAS overactivation together with an ACEI or ARB. So, the researchers in this study want to learn more about whether finerenone given in addition to either an ACEI or ARB can help their kidney function. The main purpose of this study is to learn how safe the treatment is when used of finerenone in addition to an ACEI or ARB in long-term. To see how safe the treatment is, the study team will collect information on medical problems which are also known as "treatment emergent adverse events" (TEAEs). And they will also collect levels of an electrolyte called potassium in the blood by taking blood samples, and measure blood pressure during the study. The secondary purpose of this study is to learn how well long-term use of finerenone can reduce the amount of protein in the participants' urine and benefit kidney function when taken with standard of care. To see how the treatment works, the study team will collect participants' urine samples to assess urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) and urinary protein-to-creatinine ratio (UPCR), which are important assessments for calculating the level of protein in the urine. Researchers will also collect blood samples to analyze serum creatinine and calculate estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR). A significant decline in eGFR indicates worsening kidney function. The study will include participants who had previously participated in FIONA study (NCT05196035). The participants will be aged from 1 year up to 18 years. The participants will be in the study for approximately 19 months. They will take study treatment for up to 18 months and will be follow up for 1 month. During this period, at least 12 visits are planned for patients who newly start finerenone, and at least 8 visits for patients who already received finerenone. In the visit, the study team will: - have their blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, height and weight measured - have blood and urine samples taken - have physical examinations - have their heart examined by an electrocardiogram and echocardiography (a sonogram of the heart) - answer questions about their medication and whether they have any adverse events, or have their parents or guardian's answer - answer questions about how they are feeling, or have their parents or guardian's answer - answer question about how they like the study medication, or have their parents or guardian's answer The doctors will keep track of any adverse events. An adverse event is any medical problem that a participant has during a study. Doctors keep track of all adverse events that happen in studies, even if they do not think the adverse events might be related to the study treatments. The doctors will check the participants' health about 30 days after the participants take their last treatment.