Heart drug study pulled before it even started
NCT ID NCT04510792
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study was designed to find out how often high potassium levels (hyperkalemia) cause doctors to reduce or stop important heart medications called RAAS inhibitors in emergency room or hospitalized patients. It planned to track medication changes and repeated high potassium episodes. However, the study was withdrawn before enrolling any participants, so no data or results are available.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Started
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Jul 2021
- Finished
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Jul 2021
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Inpatients or ED attenders receiving RAASi and with an episode of hyperkalaemia (potassium ≥5.5 mmol/l)
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patients in ED or inpatients with at least 1 blood test with a potassium level of ≥5.5 mmol/l 2. Receiving RAASi. 3. Aged 18 and above. 4. Able to provide informed consent or consent provided by consultee in those unable to consent for themselves. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients already receiving dialysis prior to the episode of hyperkalaemia. 2. For patients considered for postal consent: known cognitive impairment, learning difficulties or brain injury or those who had transient cognitive impairment, delirium or required urgent deprivation of liberty form completion during inpatient stay or in the previous 12 months prior to hyperkalaemia episode.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen Alexandra Hospital
Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO6 3LY, United Kingdom
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