Chronic Kidney Disease Antidepressant Sertraline Trial

Summary

This is a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial to see if treatment with sertraline as compared with placebo tablets will improve depression symptoms in patients with chronic kidney disease who have not yet started dialysis or received a kidney transplant. The investigators will also investigate whether sertraline treatment will improve quality of life and whether it is safe to use in patients with kidney disease. The study subject will be randomly assigned to take either sertraline or a placebo tablet for 12 weeks.

Timeline

Start

2010-02-08

Primary completion

2016-11-23

Completion

2017-11

Publications

• Results Jain N, Trivedi MH, Rush AJ, Carmody T, Kurian B, Toto RD, Sarode R, Hedayati SS. Rationale and design of the Chronic Kidney Disease Antidepressant Sertraline Trial (CAST). Contemp Clin Trials. 2013 Jan;34(1):136-44. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2012.10.004. Epub 2012 Oct 22.
• Results Hedayati SS, Gregg LP, Carmody T, Jain N, Toups M, Rush AJ, Toto RD, Trivedi MH. Effect of Sertraline on Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Without Dialysis Dependence: The CAST Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2017 Nov 21;318(19):1876-1890. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.17131.
• Gregg LP, Carmody T, Le D, Bharadwaj N, Trivedi MH, Hedayati SS. Depression and the Effect of Sertraline on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Patients with Nondialysis CKD. Kidney360. 2020 Apr 13;1(6):436-446. doi: 10.34067/KID.0000062020. eCollection 2020 Jun 25.
• Jain N, Wan F, Kothari M, Adelodun A, Ware J, Sarode R, Hedayati SS. Association of platelet function with depression and its treatment with sertraline in patients with chronic kidney disease: analysis of a randomized trial. BMC Nephrol. 2019 Oct 29;20(1):395. doi: 10.1186/s12882-019-1576-7.

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