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Atorvastatin and Sympathetic Activity in Chronic Kidney Disease

NCT01257009 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2010-12-09

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Summary

Hypertensive chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients often have sympathetic hyperactivity which appears to contribute to the pathogenesis of hypertension and cardiovascular organ damage. Experimental studies and some clinical studies have shown that statin therapy can reduce central sympathetic activity. Blockade of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), which is standard treatment for CKD, is known to lower sympathetic activity.

The investigators hypothesize that adding a statin for 6 weeks to RAS blockade would further lower sympathetic activity in hypertensive stage 2-4 CKD patients.

Methods: In ten stable CKD patients who are on chronic treatment with renin-angiotenis blockers, blood pressure and sympathetic activity (quantified by assessment of muscle sympathetic nerve activity, MSNA) will be assessed at baseline and 6 weeks after atorvastatin 20mg/day added.

Ten other CKD patients will serve as time control and will be studied twice with an interval of 6 weeks without any change in medication, to quantify within subject reproducibility.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Atorvastatin

6 weeks treatment with atorvastatin and studying the effect of atorvastatin on sympathetic activity

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UMC Utrecht

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-08-31
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-07-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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