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AUSTIN, Texas—Extended-release (ER) calcifediol provides the added benefit of reducing levels of bone turnover markers in patients with stage 3 to 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD), secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT), and vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study presented at the National Kidney Foundation’s 2018 Spring Clinical Meetings. These improvements occurred with minimal changes in serum calcium and phosphorus.
In 2 identical, double-blind trials of 429 patients randomized 2:1 to ER calcifediol (ERC) or placebo, mean levels of collagen type 1 cross-linked C-telopeptide (CTX) fell by 124 vs 15 pg/mL in diabetic patients, a team led by Stuart M. Sprague, DO, of NorthShore University Health System-University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in Evanston, Illinois, reported. Among non-diabetic patients, CTX decreased by 121 pg/mL in the ERC group and increased by 116 pg/mL among placebo recipients over approximately 6 months.
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Among diabetic patients, procollagen type I amino-terminal propeptide (P1NP) declined by 14 ng/mL in the ERC group and increased by 5 ng/mL in the placebo arm; among non-diabetic patients, P1NP decreased by 8 ng/mL in the ERC group and increased by 16 ng/mL in placebo recipients. All results were significant except for the decline in CTX in diabetic patients. ERC was initiated at 30 µg/d and increased, as needed, to 60 µg/day after 3 months.
Vitamin D prohormone repletion therapy minimally affected serum calcium and phosphate levels, the team added. Both calcium and phosphate increased by 0.1 mg/dL in diabetic and non-diabetic patients compared with placebo.
“This post-hoc analysis demonstrated that diabetes had no effect on the efficacy or safety of extended-release calcifediol in treating patients with SHPT and vitamin D insufficiency in stage 3 or 4 CKD,” Dr Sprague told Renal & Urology News. “It also showed that extended-release calcifediol treatment improved bone turnover markers in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects.”
The study was funded by OPKO Health, which manufactures ER calcifediol. Dr Sprague is a consultant for OPKO Health Renal Division.
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Sprague S, Strugnell S, Ashfaq A, and Bishop C. Extended-release calcifediol improves bone marker levels in CKD patients with diabetes. Poster presented at the National Kidney Foundation’s 2018 Spring Clinical Meetings in Austin, Texas, April 10-14, 2018. Poster 174.
