New blood pressure drug shows promise for kidney disease in early trial

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Participant must be 30 to 72 years of age inclusive, at the time of signing the informed consent. * Participants with diagnosis of mild to moderate systemic arterial hypertension receiving stable treatment for ≥8 weeks before the screening visit with not more than 2 antihypertensive drugs * No planned changes to antihypertensive treatment during active treatment phase of the study. * Estimated glomerular filtration rate ≥45 mL/min/1.73 m2 (CKD-Epi formula) at screening and Study Day -2. * Men and confirmed postmenopausal women (documented by medical report verification and defined as exhibiting spontaneous amenorrhea for at least 12 months before screening or as exhibiting spontaneous amenorrhea for at least 6 months before screening with documented serum follicle-stimulating hormone levels \>40 miU/mL) or women with iatrogenic menopause due to bilateral oophorectomy Exclusion Criteria: * Systemic diseases: cancer (with the exception of appropriately treated basal cell carcinomas of the skin or uterine carcinoma in situ), autoimmune diseases (including also topically treated autoimmune diseases such as atopic dermatitis) * Any surgical or medical condition which significantly alters the absorption, distribution, metabolism or excretion of study drugs, including, but not limited to: history of major gastrointestinal tract surgery, cholecystectomy, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic diarrhea, currently active gastritis, and pancreatitis * Long-acting or short-acting nitrates or NO donors for any route including isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide-5-mononitrate, pentaerythritol tetranitrate, nicorandil, nitrotriglyceride, molsidomin starting 7 days (or at least 5 half-lives of the active substance whichever is longer) before first study intervention until Follow-up. * PDE inhibitors starting 7 days (or at least 5 half-lives of the active substance whichever is longer) before first study intervention until Follow-up. * sGC stimulators or activators starting 7 days (or at least 5 half-lives of the active substance whichever is longer) before first study intervention until Follow-up.