NCT00861731

Ezetimibe/Simvastatin Combination in Proteinuric Nephropathy

The Metabolic and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Combined Ezetimibe and Simvastin Therapy, as Compared to Simvastatin Alone, in Patients With Chronic Proteinuric Nephropathy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Sassari · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether, in patients with chronic proteinuric nephropathy and dyslipidemia, ezetimibe-simvastatin combined therapy is more effective than statin alone to achieve the optimum lipid control, and if this translates to an improvement of the markers of vascular damage. Thirty hypertensive patients in stable therapy with RAS inhibitors, with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol superior to 100 mg/ml, are treated with three different hypolipidemic regimens: Simvastatin alone (40 mg/day) or ezetimibe/simvastatin combined therapy (10/20 or 10/40 mg/day).

Detailed description

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have an increased incidence of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Presence of hypertension, lipid abnormalities and inflammation each contribute to increased cardiovascular risk. Therefore blood pressure control slows the progression of CKD towards End Stage Renal Failure (ESRF) improving clinical outcome. Instead the contribution of lipid abnormalities is still not completely understood, mainly because dyslipidemia interferes with a number of non-traditional cardiovascular risk factors, particularly the activated acute-phase response. In proteinuric patients, dyslipidemia has a highly atherogenic profile, with increased total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, triglyceride, and lipoprotein(a) serum levels, as well as decreased HDL cholesterol. Numerous studies have indicated that treatment of dyslipidemia with a statin decreases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Experimental and clinical evidences show that statin, in addition to ameliorate lipid profile, may have specific renoprotective properties and, combined to Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) inhibitor therapy, may synergize their antiproteinuric effects. Preliminary data are also available data that the combination of statin to ezetimibe (EZE), a cholesterol absorption inhibitor, produces an additional decrease in LDL cholesterol and C-reactive protein levels, over that achieved with statin monotherapy. Thus, adding the potential antinflammatory effect to hypolipidemic efficacy, combined therapy may expand the renal and cardioprotective potentiality. It may also permit a reduction of statin therapeutic dose improving safety profile. Therefore EZE-statin combination therapy may be an effective therapeutic option to statin alone in patients with high cardiovascular risk, such as chronic proteinuric patients.

Conditions

• Hypercholesterolemia
• Chronic Nephropathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	simvastatin	simvasatin therapy alone at the dose of 40 mg/day
DRUG	EZE/simvastatin	EZE/simvastatin combined therapy at the dose of 10/20 mg/day
DRUG	EZE/simvastatin	EZE/simvastatin combined therapy at the dose of 10/40 mg/day

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-07-01
• Completion: 2009-07-01
• First posted: 2009-03-13
• Last updated: 2009-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy