Cicletanine in Hypertension With Diabetes: Added Magnesium Preserves Potassium and Sodium

Summary

Cicletanine, which has been approved and launched for hypertension in France and Germany, has promise beyond hypertension in critically-unmet needs such as diabetes. It is evident from in vitro, animal and human studies that cicletanine's optimal dose in diabetes and other challenging, critically-unmet needs is likely to be higher than that for hypertension. Cicletanine's maximum tolerated dosage is not known, but the drug's dose-limiting effects are documented to be potassium loss and sodium loss from thiazide-type activity (one of the therapeutic mechanisms the drug is known to have); such thiazide-type losses are known to be reversed safely by magnesium. This trial explores the ability of magnesium to enhance cicletanine safety at higher doses in a trial involving patients with hypertension complicated by diabetes.

Timeline

Start

2022-06

Primary completion

2024-06

Completion

2024-09

Drugs

Indications