Can a common blood pressure pill prevent heart attacks after kidney failure in the ICU?
NCT ID NCT05272878
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether irbesartan, a blood pressure medication, can reduce the risk of major heart problems and kidney disease in people who had acute kidney injury while in the intensive care unit (ICU). About 500 adults aged 18-75 will take either irbesartan or a placebo for 12 months after leaving the ICU. The goal is to see if this drug can improve long-term outcomes for these high-risk patients.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Irbesartan (a blood pressure medication)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple, widely available treatment to reduce heart attacks, strokes, and kidney failure after a serious kidney injury in the ICU.
- What could go wrong
- This is a phase 3 trial, but it is still early to know if irbesartan will help or cause side effects like low blood pressure. Results may not apply to all kidney injury patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 3
Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.
- Participants
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About 508 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Nov 2022
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- 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: * Patient between 18 and 75 years old * Met criteria for acute kidney injury during the ICU stay (according to the KDIGO criteria) * After their renal function has stabilized for at least 48 hours (Serum creatinine decreasing or not increasing more than 26 micromol/L or 25%) among patients ready to be discharged from the ICU or acute careTCU. and within 30 days after their ICU discharge. * Signed informed consent * Patients affiliated to a Social Security System * Women of childbearing potential and men must agree, to use adequate and highly effective contraception, until the end of the research. Exclusion Criteria: * Patient treated with ACEi or ARB before ICU admission * Patient for whom treatment with ACEi or ARB is strongly recommended according to the international guidelines at discharge (i.e. patients with congestive heart failure and persistent dyspnea with LVEF\<40%,, patients with diabetes mellitus and either albuminuria \> 300 µg/g creatininuria or hypertension associated with microalbuminuria or hypertension associated with eGFR \< 60 ml/min) known before ICU admission. * Hyperkalemia\>5 mmol/L * Systolic blood pressure \<100 mmHg * Patient with severe renal failure, as defined by estimated glomerular filtration rate creatinine clearance \< 15 ml/min/1.73m2), requiring renal replacement therapy at ICU discharge * Oral route impossible. * Pregnancy * Breast feeding * Patients chronically treated with Aliskiren * Known hypersensitivity to the active substance or to one of its excipients and in particular to lactose * Patients with known primary hyperaldosteronism * Patients with known severe and symptomatic aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis or obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. * Patients treated with lithium * Patient undergoing psychiatric care * Inability to consent due to psychiatric disorders defined as psychiatric disorders or patient with a mental state requiring immediate care with either by constant medical surveillance justifying hospitalization, or regular medical follow-up justifying specific treatment * Patient deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision * Patient to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship and safeguard of justice)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Hospital Lariboisière
Paris, 75010, France
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