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100 1 |a Pergola, Pablo E 
245 1 |a Vadadustat in Patients with Anemia and Non–Dialysis-Dependent CKD 
260 |b Massachusetts Medical Society  |c Apr 29, 2021 
513 |a Journal Article 
520 3 |a BackgroundVadadustat is an oral hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor, a class of drugs that stabilize HIF and stimulate erythropoietin and red-cell production.MethodsIn two phase 3, randomized, open-label, active-controlled, noninferiority trials, we compared vadadustat with the erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) darbepoetin alfa in patients with non–dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (NDD-CKD) not previously treated with an ESA who had a hemoglobin concentration of less than 10 g per deciliter and in patients with ESA-treated NDD-CKD and a hemoglobin concentration of 8 to 11 g per deciliter (in the United States) or 9 to 12 g per deciliter (in other countries). The primary safety end point, assessed in a time-to-event analysis, was the first major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE; a composite of death from any cause, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke), pooled across the two trials. Secondary safety end points included expanded MACE (MACE plus hospitalization for either heart failure or a thromboembolic event). The primary and key secondary efficacy end points in each trial were the mean change in hemoglobin concentration from baseline during two evaluation periods: weeks 24 through 36 and weeks 40 through 52.ResultsA total of 1751 patients with ESA-untreated NDD-CKD and 1725 with ESA-treated NDD-CKD underwent randomization in the two trials. In the pooled analysis, in which 1739 patients received vadadustat and 1732 received darbepoetin alfa, the hazard ratio for MACE was 1.17 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01 to 1.36), which did not meet the prespecified noninferiority margin of 1.25. The mean between-group differences in the change in the hemoglobin concentration at weeks 24 through 36 were 0.05 g per deciliter (95% CI, −0.04 to 0.15) in the trial involving ESA-untreated patients and −0.01 g per deciliter (95% CI, −0.09 to 0.07) in the trial involving ESA-treated patients, which met the prespecified noninferiority margin of −0.75 g per deciliter.ConclusionsVadadustat, as compared with darbepoetin alfa, met the prespecified noninferiority criterion for hematologic efficacy but not the prespecified noninferiority criterion for cardiovascular safety in patients with NDD-CKD. (Funded by Akebia Therapeutics and Otsuka Pharmaceutical; PRO2TECT ClinicalTrials.gov numbers, NCT02648347 and NCT02680574.) 
610 4 |a Akebia Therapeutics Inc 
651 4 |a United States--US 
653 |a Hemodialysis 
653 |a Clinical trials 
653 |a Hypoxia-inducible factors 
653 |a Hemoglobin 
653 |a Cerebral infarction 
653 |a Collaboration 
653 |a Kidney diseases 
653 |a Heart failure 
653 |a Hypoxia 
653 |a Myocardial infarction 
653 |a Confidence intervals 
653 |a Erythropoietin 
653 |a Thromboembolism 
653 |a Drug dosages 
653 |a Erythropoiesis 
653 |a Patients 
653 |a Hydroxylase 
653 |a Anemia 
653 |a Heart attacks 
653 |a Prolyl hydroxylase 
653 |a Design 
653 |a Safety 
653 |a Congestive heart failure 
653 |a Dialysis 
700 1 |a Farag Youssef MK 
700 1 |a Agarwal Rajiv 
700 1 |a Arnold, Susan 
700 1 |a Bako Gabriel 
700 1 |a Block, Geoffrey A 
700 1 |a Burke, Steven 
700 1 |a Castillo, Fausto P 
700 1 |a Jardine, Alan G 
700 1 |a Khawaja Zeeshan 
700 1 |a Koury, Mark J 
700 1 |a Lewis, Eldrin F 
700 1 |a Lin, Tim 
700 1 |a Luo Wenli 
700 1 |a Maroni, Bradley J 
700 1 |a Matsushita Kunihiro 
700 1 |a McCullough, Peter A 
700 1 |a Parfrey, Patrick S 
700 1 |a Roy-Chaudhury, Prabir 
700 1 |a Sarnak, Mark J 
700 1 |a Sharma, Amit 
700 1 |a Spinowitz Bruce 
700 1 |a Tseng, Carol 
700 1 |a Tumlin, James 
700 1 |a Vargo, Dennis L 
700 1 |a Walters, Kimberly A 
700 1 |a Winkelmayer, Wolfgang C 
700 1 |a Wittes Janet 
700 1 |a Eckardt Kai-Uwe  |u From Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA (G.M.C., E.F.L.); Renal Associates, San Antonio (P.E.P.), U.S. Renal Care, Plano (G.A.B.), Baylor University Medical Center, Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Dallas (P.A.M.), and the Section of Nephrology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (W.C.W.) — all in Texas; Akebia Therapeutics, Cambridge (Y.M.K.F., S.B., Z.K., W.L., B.J.M., A.S., D.L.V.), and the Division of Nephrology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (M.J.S.) — both in Massachusetts; the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis (R.A.); Excellentis Clinical Trial Consultants, George, South Africa (S.A.); Bihor County Hospital Oradea, Oradea, Romania (G.B.); Qway Research, Hialeah, FL (F.P.C.); the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom (A.G.J.); the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (M.J.K.); Firma Clinical Research, Hunt Valley (T.L.), and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore (K.M.) — both in Maryland; the Department of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada (P.S.P.); the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of North Carolina Kidney Center, Chapel Hill, and the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salisbury — both in North Carolina (P.R.-C.); the Division of Nephrology, New York–Presbyterian Queens, Flushing (B.S.); Firma Clinical Research, Chicago (C.T.); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta (J.T.); Statistics Collaborative, Washington, DC (K.A.W., J.W.); and the Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin (K.-U.E.). 
773 0 |t The New England Journal of Medicine  |g vol. 384, no. 17 (Apr 29, 2021), p. 1589 
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