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Effects of newer kidney protective agents on kidney endpoints provide implications for future clinical trials

Hiddo J.L. Heerspink, Niels Jongs, Brendon L. Neuen, Patrick Schloemer, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Lesley A. Inker, Robert A. Fletcher, David C. Wheeler, George L. Bakris, Tom Greene, Glenn M. Chertow, Vlado Perkovic

2023Kidney International21 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Doubling of serum creatinine (equivalent to a 57% decline in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)) is an accepted component of a composite kidney endpoint in clinical trials. Smaller declines in eGFR (40%, 50%) have been applied in several recently conducted clinical trials. Here, we assessed the effects of newer kidney protective agents on endpoints including smaller proportional declines in eGFR to compare relative event rates and the magnitude of observed treatment effects. We performed a post hoc analysis of 4401 patients in the CREDENCE, 4304 in the DAPA-CKD, 5734 in the FIDELIO-DKD, and 3668 in the SONAR trials, which assessed the effects of canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, finerenone and atrasentan in patients with chronic kidney disease. Effects of active therapies versus placebo on alternative composite kidney endpoints incorporating different eGFR decline thresholds (40%, 50%, or 57% eGFR reductions from baseline) with kidney failure or death due to kidney failure were compared. Cox-proportional hazards regression models were used to assess and compare treatment effects. During follow-up, event rates were higher for endpoints incorporating smaller versus larger eGFR decline thresholds. Compared to the treatment effects on kidney failure or death due to kidney failure, the magnitude of relative treatment effects was generally similar when considering composite endpoints incorporating smaller declines in eGFR. Hazard ratios for the four interventions ranged from 0.63 to 0.82 for the endpoint incorporating 40% eGFR decline and 0.59 to 0.76 for the endpoint incorporating 57% eGFR decline. Clinical trials incorporating a 40% eGFR decline in a composite endpoint would require approximately half the number of participants compared to a 57% eGFR decline with equivalent statistical power. Thus, in populations at high risk of CKD progression, the relative effects of newer kidney protective therapies appear generally similar across endpoints based on varying eGFR decline thresholds. Doubling of serum creatinine (equivalent to a 57% decline in the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR)) is an accepted component of a composite kidney endpoint in clinical trials. Smaller declines in eGFR (40%, 50%) have been applied in several recently conducted clinical trials. Here, we assessed the effects of newer kidney protective agents on endpoints including smaller proportional declines in eGFR to compare relative event rates and the magnitude of observed treatment effects. We performed a post hoc analysis of 4401 patients in the CREDENCE, 4304 in the DAPA-CKD, 5734 in the FIDELIO-DKD, and 3668 in the SONAR trials, which assessed the effects of canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, finerenone and atrasentan in patients with chronic kidney disease. Effects of active therapies versus placebo on alternative composite kidney endpoints incorporating different eGFR decline thresholds (40%, 50%, or 57% eGFR reductions from baseline) with kidney failure or death due to kidney failure were compared. Cox-proportional hazards regression models were used to assess and compare treatment effects. During follow-up, event rates were higher for endpoints incorporating smaller versus larger eGFR decline thresholds. Compared to the treatment effects on kidney failure or death due to kidney failure, the magnitude of relative treatment effects was generally similar when considering composite endpoints incorporating smaller declines in eGFR. Hazard ratios for the four interventions ranged from 0.63 to 0.82 for the endpoint incorporating 40% eGFR decline and 0.59 to 0.76 for the endpoint incorporating 57% eGFR decline. Clinical trials incorporating a 40% eGFR decline in a composite endpoint would require approximately half the number of participants compared to a 57% eGFR decline with equivalent statistical power. Thus, in populations at high risk of CKD progression, the relative effects of newer kidney protective therapies appear generally similar across endpoints based on varying eGFR decline thresholds. Lay SummaryThe established endpoint for clinical trials in nephrology includes a large decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; 57%). To assess drug effects, the established endpoint requires large sample sizes and trials of long duration. Alternative endpoints that include smaller declines in eGFR have been proposed and applied in recent clinical trials. In this new study, we demonstrate in 4 recently completed clinical trials that the effects of newer nephroprotective agents are generally similar across endpoints using varying eGFR declines. Because endpoints based on smaller declines in eGFR occur more often, the sample size needed to detect treatment effects would be smaller if less-stringent eGFR thresholds are used, thereby facilitating conduct of clinical trials. The established endpoint for clinical trials in nephrology includes a large decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; 57%). To assess drug effects, the established endpoint requires large sample sizes and trials of long duration. Alternative endpoints that include smaller declines in eGFR have been proposed and applied in recent clinical trials. In this new study, we demonstrate in 4 recently completed clinical trials that the effects of newer nephroprotective agents are generally similar across endpoints using varying eGFR declines. Because endpoints based on smaller declines in eGFR occur more often, the sample size needed to detect treatment effects would be smaller if less-stringent eGFR thresholds are used, thereby facilitating conduct of clinical trials. Kidney failure is the most significant long-term complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD), for clinicians, patients, and caregivers.1Webster A.C. Nagler E.V. Morton R.L. Masson P. Chronic kidney disease.Lancet. 2017; 389: 1238-1252Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (1755) Google Scholar Given this, clinical trials aiming to develop new therapies for CKD have traditionally used kidney failure as a component of a composite endpoint, together with a relatively large decline in kidney function (e.g., doubling of serum creatinine). Because kidney failure and doubling of serum creatinine are late manifestations of CKD progression, drug development for CKD has historically focused on patients with more advanced disease, to avoid protracted follow-up times and mitigate operational complexities. Surrogate endpoints that can reliably reflect longer-term, well-established endpoints could facilitate the conduct of clinical trials at earlier stages of CKD.2Levey A.S. Gansevoort R.T. Coresh J. et al.Change in albuminuria and GFR as end points for clinical trials in early stages of CKD: a scientific workshop sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation in Collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency.Am J Kidney Dis. 2020; 75: 84-104Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (219) Google Scholar In the past decade, significant progress has been made in validating surrogate endpoints. Initial studies focused on the validity of using declines in eGFR of less than 57% (equivalent to a doubling of serum creatinine) as a component of a composite endpoint.3Heerspink H.J.L. Weldegiorgis M. Inker L.A. et al.Estimated GFR decline as a surrogate end point for kidney failure: a post hoc analysis from the Reduction of End Points in Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes With the Angiotensin II Antagonist Losartan (RENAAL) Study and Irbesartan Diabetic Nephropathy Trial (IDNT).Am J Kidney Dis. 2014; 63: 244-250PubMed Google Scholar, 4Levey A.S. Inker L.A. Matsushita K. et al.GFR decline as an endpoint for clinical trials in CKD: a scientific workshop sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation and the US Food and Drug and Administration.Am J Kidney Dis. 2014; 64: 821-835Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (365) Google Scholar, 5Levin A. Agarwal R. Herrington W.G. et al.International consensus definitions of clinical trial outcomes for kidney failure: 2020.Kidney Int. 2020; 98: 849-859Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (42) Google Scholar A meta-analysis of clinical trials supported the validity of using a 30% eGFR decline in some circumstances, and a 40% decline in eGFR could be more broadly acceptable as a surrogate endpoint. However, for both surrogate endpoints, the pattern of acute effects on eGFR should be examined, specifically because the acute eGFR lowering effects can attenuate the treatment effect estimate in confirmatory phase 3 trials.6Inker L.A. Lambers Heerspink H.J. Mondal H. et al.GFR decline as an alternative end point to kidney failure in clinical trials: a meta-analysis of treatment effects from 37 randomized trials.Am J Kidney Dis. 2014; 64: 848-859Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (99) Google Scholar The validity of kidney endpoints defined by smaller declines in eGFR was demonstrated with established therapies, using data from clinical trials conducted mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s, with the majority being agents that inhibit the renin–angiotensin system. Newer classes of agents for attenuating CKD progression have emerged since then, including sodium–glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors (canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and empagliflozin); a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (finerenone); and an endothelin receptor antagonist (atrasentan).7Perkovic V. Jardine M.J. Neal B. et al.Canagliflozin and renal outcomes in type 2 diabetes and nephropathy.N Engl J Med. 2019; 380: 2295-2306Crossref PubMed Scopus (2918) Google Scholar, 8Heerspink H.J.L. Stefansson B.V. Correa-Rotter R. et al.Dapagliflozin in patients with chronic kidney disease.N Engl J Med. 2020; 383: 1436-1446Crossref PubMed Scopus (1631) Google Scholar, 9Heerspink H.J.L. Parving H.-H. Andress D.L. et al.Atrasentan and renal events in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (SONAR): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.Lancet. 2019; 393: 1937-1947Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (315) Google Scholar, 10Bakris G.L. Agarwal R. Anker S.D. et al.Effect of finerenone on chronic kidney disease outcomes in type 2 diabetes.N Engl J Med. 2020; 383: 2219-2229Crossref PubMed Scopus (701) Google Scholar These newer interventions all have acute eGFR-lowering effects, although of varying magnitude; whereas atrasentan exerts a modest eGFR-lowering acute effect (–0.8 ml/min per 1.73 m2), the acute effect is 3- to 4-fold larger with finerenone and SGLT2 inhibitors. Understanding the implications of alternative eGFR decline thresholds on the relative (and absolute) effects of these and other therapeutic agents will help inform clinical decision making in the near term, and the design of future clinical trials. In this study, we used data from pivotal placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials that assessed the efficacy and safety of an SGLT2 a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor or an endothelin receptor antagonist on composite endpoints of kidney failure or death due to kidney disease, with eGFR decline thresholds of 50%, and We pivotal phase 3 clinical trials patients with type 2 diabetes and CKD that demonstrated a significant risk in the composite kidney endpoint with the newer We the trials: and in Diabetes with Nephropathy Clinical and of in Chronic Kidney in Kidney and in Diabetic Kidney and the Study of Diabetic Nephropathy with and the trial randomized 4401 patients were at of a of type 2 an eGFR and ml/min per 1.73 and a and V. Jardine M.J. Neal B. et al.Canagliflozin and renal outcomes in type 2 diabetes and nephropathy.N Engl J Med. 2019; 380: 2295-2306Crossref PubMed Scopus (2918) Google Scholar patients were an or an receptor participants were to at a of or placebo and were for a of and the trial 4304 patients or with or a of type 2 an eGFR and ml/min per 1.73 and a and H.J.L. Stefansson B.V. Correa-Rotter R. et al.Dapagliflozin in patients with chronic kidney disease.N Engl J Med. 2020; 383: 1436-1446Crossref PubMed Scopus (1631) Google Scholar patients were an or if were to at a of or placebo and were for a of A.S. Gansevoort R.T. Coresh J. et al.Change in albuminuria and GFR as end points for clinical trials in early stages of CKD: a scientific workshop sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation in Collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency.Am J Kidney Dis. 2020; 75: 84-104Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (219) Google Scholar and the trial 5734 patients or CKD and a of type 2 G.L. Agarwal R. Anker S.D. et al.Effect of finerenone on chronic kidney disease outcomes in type 2 diabetes.N Engl J Med. 2020; 383: 2219-2229Crossref PubMed Scopus (701) Google Scholar an eGFR of to ml/min per 1.73 a of to and or an eGFR of to ml/min per 1.73 and a and patients were an or and were randomized to finerenone or placebo and were for a of and the SONAR trial patients to a of type 2 an eGFR and ml/min per 1.73 and a and H.J.L. Parving H.-H. Andress D.L. et al.Atrasentan and renal events in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (SONAR): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.Lancet. 2019; 393: 1937-1947Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (315) Google Scholar patients were an or participants atrasentan at a of an active to patients were to to defined as a in of 30% or and patients to defined as an of at 3 in or an in to at patients atrasentan and a of patients to the and were in a to atrasentan at a of or to the we the and as that the effect of atrasentan on the composite kidney was different in and The of follow-up was The kidney endpoints in this analysis were a composite of kidney failure as for at in the kidney or an eGFR ml/min per 1.73 for at death due to kidney failure, or decline in eGFR for at of and A eGFR ml/min per 1.73 was a component of the kidney failure in the We performed all statistical the We used proportional hazards regression models to assess the effect of the active compared to on the risk for composite kidney endpoint. 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The demonstrated that the SGLT2 inhibitors and dapagliflozin, the nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist and the endothelin receptor antagonist atrasentan on all kidney endpoints of the eGFR in this Because the number of endpoints was with in relative risk the sample size to detect the observed treatment effect would be smaller if less-stringent thresholds were that CKD progression acute effects on eGFR that from long-term H. Heerspink H.J.L. et treatment effects on GFR in randomized clinical trials of kidney disease PubMed Scopus Google Scholar for a workshop by the National Kidney Foundation and the US Food and Drug Administration that for interventions that large acute reductions in eGFR as of SGLT2 inhibitors and mineralocorticoid receptor a or 57% eGFR decline is the L.A. Lambers Heerspink H.J. 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Anker S.D. et al.Effect of finerenone on chronic kidney disease outcomes in type 2 diabetes.N Engl J Med. 2020; 383: 2219-2229Crossref PubMed Scopus (701) Google H.J.L. et al.Effect of on the rate of decline in kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease with and type 2 a analysis from the Diabetes Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus Google Scholar the chronic treatment effects of canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and finerenone were approximately as large as observed with and in the Reduction of in Diabetes with the Angiotensin II Antagonist Losartan (RENAAL) trial and the Irbesartan Diabetic Nephropathy Trial although these trials were conducted 2 when of were Thus, in in which acute eGFR-lowering effects are by of eGFR a eGFR as a component of a composite kidney endpoint for the relatively higher event rates with the acute eGFR-lowering effects. 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