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JAPANESE
国立保健医療科学院
UMIN ID: UMIN000002150

Registered date:01/07/2009

Open-label multicenter randomized trial on the effects of sevelamer hydrochloride and calcium carbonate on vascular calcification in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

Basic Information

Recruitment status Complete: follow-up complete
Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studiedCoronary artery calcification in chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis
Date of first enrollment2004/04/01
Target sample size260
Countries of recruitmentJapan
Study typeInterventional
Intervention(s)One-year treatment with sevelamer hydrochloride alone or combined use of sevelamer hydrochloride and calcium-based products One-year treatment with calcium carbonate alone

Outcome(s)

Primary OutcomeGroup-to-group comparisons of the changes in coronary artery calcification score and blood parameters including plasma pentosidine concentration occurring during one year of test drug administration from enrollment
Secondary Outcome

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Age minimum20years-old
Age maximum80years-old
GenderMale and Female
Include criteria
Exclude criteria1. Patients who have received the test drugs within 12 weeks of enrollment 2. Patients who have undergone parathyroidectomy within one year of enrollment 3. Patients who have undergone parathyroid-targeted interventions (intra-parathyroid injection of ethanol, acetic acid, or vitamin D and its derivatives) within 24 weeks of enrollment 4. Patients who have received bisphosphonate products within 12 weeks of enrollment 5. Patients on estrogen replacement therapy 6. Patients receiving elcitonin 7. Patients receiving nicotinamide 8. Patients receiving sodium ferrous citrate (Proprietary name: Ferromia and others) 9. Patients receiving ipriflavone (Proprietary name: Osten and others) 10. Patients receiving vitamin K2

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Contact

public contact
Name
Address Shimokasuya 143, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan Japan
Telephone
E-mail
Affiliation Tokai University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine
scientific contact
Name Takatoshi Kakuta
Address Shimokasuya 143, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. Japan
Telephone 0463-93-1121
E-mail
Affiliation Tokai University School of Medicine Division of Nephrology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine