Individual Atrasentan Exposure is Associated With Long-term Kidney and Heart Failure Outcomes in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

Jeroen V. Koomen, Jasper Stevens, George Bakris, Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Fan Fan Hou, Dalane W. Kitzman, Donald E. Kohan, Hirofumi Makino, John J.V. McMurray, Hans Henrik Parving, Vlado Perkovic, Sheldon W. Tobe, Dick de Zeeuw, Hiddo J.L. Heerspink

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Abstract

Atrasentan, an endothelin receptor antagonist, showed clinically significant albuminuria reduction with minimal signs of fluid retention in phase II trials. We evaluated whether plasma exposure was associated with long-term outcomes for kidney protection and heart failure in the phase III SONAR trial (n = 3668) in type 2 diabetics with chronic kidney disease. A population pharmacokinetic model was used to estimate plasma exposure of atrasentan 0.75 mg/day. Parametric time-to-event models were used to quantify the association between plasma exposure and long-term outcomes. Mean atrasentan plasma exposure was 41.4 ng.h/mL (2.5th to 97.5th P: 14.2 to 139.9). Compared with placebo, a mean atrasentan exposure translated in a hazard ratio of 0.76 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.28–0.85) for kidney events and 1.13 (95% CI: 1.03–2.20) for heart failure events. At the mean atrasentan exposure, the kidney protective effect was larger than the increase in heart failure supporting the atrasentan 0.75 mg/day dose in this population.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1631-1638
Number of pages8
JournalClinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Volume109
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2021

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacology (medical)

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