New diabetes drug aims to slow kidney failure in High-Risk patients

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

Inclusion Criteria: * Male or female individuals aged 18 years and above; * Meets the diagnostic criteria for T2DM; * Meets the diagnostic criteria for CKD, during the screening period（CKD-EPI Formula）: eGFR ≥ 30 to \< 60 mL/min/1.73m\^2, and UACR is ≥ 30 to \< 5000 mg/g; Or eGFR ≥ 60 to \< 90 mL/min/1.73m\^2, and UACR is ≥ 300 to \< 5000 mg/g ; * HbA1c ≥ 6.5% to ≤ 12%; * If there are no contraindications or special instructions, all subjects must take a stable dose of ACEi or ARB at least 4 weeks before randomization; Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with type 1 diabetes or other special types of diabetes; * A medical history or clinical evidence indicating that the subjects have other primary kidney diseases and secondary kidney diseases other than type 2 diabetes (including but not limited to lupus nephritis, ANCA-related nephritis); * History of kidney transplantation; * Blood potassium level \> 5.5 mmol/L during the screening period. * New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification of grade IV during the screening period; * Experienced ketoacidosis, myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris, stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), hospitalization due to heart failure, or hospitalization due to urinary tract infection or acute kidney injury within 12 weeks before the screening period; * Receiving ACEi and ARB in combination; * Receiving mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) or direct renin inhibitors (DRI) within 8 weeks before randomization; * Receiving drugs with immunosuppressive effects (such as cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine A, tacrolimus, etc.) or biological agents (rituximab, belimumab, etc.) during the 12 weeks before the screening period; * Receiving SGLT-2 inhibitors or GLP-1 receptor agonists within 8 weeks before the screening, or have previously used SGLT-2 inhibitor drugs and discontinued due to poor efficacy.