Efficacy of Rostafuroxin in the Treatment of Essential Hypertension

Summary

The purpose of this study is to verify the efficacy of Rostafuroxin in the treatment of essential hypertension and to determine the best effective dose to be administered in the general hypertensive population and in a subset of this population in which genetic patterns could be involved in the etiology of essential hypertension.

Timeline

Start

2005-02

Primary completion

2007-04

Completion

2007-08

Publications

• Background Staessen JA, Kuznetsova T, Acceto R, Bacchieri A, Brand E, Burnier M, Celis H, Citterio L, de Leeuw PW, Filipovsky J, Fournier A, Kawecka-Jaszcz K, Manunta P, Nikitin Y, O'Brien ET, Redon J, Thijs L, Ferrari P, Valentini G, Bianchi G. OASIS-HT: design of a pharmacogenomic dose-finding study. Pharmacogenomics. 2005 Oct;6(7):755-75. doi: 10.2217/14622416.6.7.755.
• Staessen JA, Thijs L, Stolarz-Skrzypek K, Bacchieri A, Barton J, Espositi ED, de Leeuw PW, Dluzniewski M, Glorioso N, Januszewicz A, Manunta P, Milyagin V, Nikitin Y, Soucek M, Lanzani C, Citterio L, Timio M, Tykarski A, Ferrari P, Valentini G, Kawecka-Jaszcz K, Bianchi G. Main results of the ouabain and adducin for Specific Intervention on Sodium in Hypertension Trial (OASIS-HT): a randomized placebo-controlled phase-2 dose-finding study of rostafuroxin. Trials. 2011 Jan 14;12:13. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-13.

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