Roxadustat in the Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Not Requiring Dialysis

Summary

This study was conducted to treat anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease. Anemia is a reduced number of red blood cells or hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is important for the transport of oxygen in your blood. The purpose of the study was to see if Roxadustat is both effective and safe as a treatment for anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Timeline

Start

2013-09-03

Primary completion

2017-11-01

Completion

2017-11-01

Publications

• Natale P, Palmer SC, Jaure A, Hodson EM, Ruospo M, Cooper TE, Hahn D, Saglimbene VM, Craig JC, Strippoli GF. Hypoxia-inducible factor stabilisers for the anaemia of chronic kidney disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Aug 25;8(8):CD013751. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013751.pub2.
• Provenzano R, Szczech L, Leong R, Saikali KG, Zhong M, Lee TT, Little DJ, Houser MT, Frison L, Houghton J, Neff TB. Efficacy and Cardiovascular Safety of Roxadustat for Treatment of Anemia in Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD: Pooled Results of Three Randomized Clinical Trials. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Aug;16(8):1190-1200. doi: 10.2215/CJN.16191020.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.