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New hope for high potassium: phase 3 drug trial launches
NCT ID NCT07251309
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a new medicine called WS016 for people with high potassium levels (hyperkalemia). The trial has two parts: a short phase to quickly lower potassium, followed by a month-long phase to keep it in a safe range. About 420 adults with moderately high potassium will take either WS016 or a placebo to see if the drug works safely.
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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 420 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2024
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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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: * Adults (male or female) aged 18 years and older; * Participants with a serum potassium concentration \>5.0 mmol/L and ≤6.5 mmol/L (serum potassium concentration will be measured using the i-STAT portable biochemical analyzer in screening period); * Participants who have negative pregnancy test result at screening and ensure the use of contraception during the trial; * Participants who understand and voluntarily sign the Informed Consent Form. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants who have a history of severe drug allergy, or are definitely allergic to the investigational product or its ingredients; * Participants who have pseudohyperkalemia, such as serum potassium increasing caused by hemolysis of blood samples due to improper blood collection methods (such as too tight pressure pulse band banding, too heavy local rubbing, repeated fist clenching-loosening hands), hemolysis of blood samples due to difficulty in venipuncture or trauma, and severe leukocytosis (\>50 × 10\^9/L) or thrombocytosis (\>500 × 10\^9/L); * Participants with acute hyperkalemia caused by conditions such as tumor lysis syndrome or hemolysis and so on; * Participants suffering from severe cerebrovascular diseases, such as cerebral infarction or cerebral hemorrhagic disease, with language disorder or unresponsiveness, or severely blocked limb movement; * Participants who have suffered from myocardial infarction, or have undergone interventional cardiac procedures or coronary artery bypass grafting for coronary atherosclerotic heart disease within 3 months prior to screening; or participants who have heart failure and are in cardiac function class IV (New York Heart Association, NYHA classification criteria) at screening; * Participants with cardiac arrhythmia requiring urgent treatment at screening, such as ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, II-III degree atrioventricular block, severe bradycardia (heart rate \<40 bpm), or participants with significant prolongation of PR interval (PR interval prolonged to more than 0.25 seconds in the absence of pre-existing atrioventricular block), decrease or disappearance of P wave amplitude, and widening of QRS wave (widening to more than 0.14 seconds in the absence of pre-existing bundle branch block) indicated by the electrocardiogram at screening; * Participants who have previously undergone major gastrointestinal surgery such as subtotal gastrectomy, short bowel syndrome and other diseases affecting the normal peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract; or participants with intractable constipation; * Participants who have received treatment with polypropylene exchange resin or sodium zirconium cyclosilicate and other similar drugs within 3 days before screening; * Participants who participated in other clinical trials of drugs or devices not approved for marketing within 3 months prior to the first dose; * Participants who are receiving dialysis; * Participants with severe hepatic impairment: serum alanine aminotransferase or aspartate aminotransferase more than 3 times the upper limit of normal; * Participants who are unable to complete this part of the trial as assessed by the investigator due to any other disease or psychiatric condition; or participants whose participation in the trial is assessed by the investigator as having a risk that far outweighs the benefit.
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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.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
50 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Investigator Site 01
RECRUITINGNanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China
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Investigator Site 02
RECRUITINGBengbu, Anhui, 233000, China
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Investigator Site 03
RECRUITINGWuhu, Anhui, 241000, China
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Investigator Site 04
RECRUITINGXiamen, Fujian, 361000, China
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Investigator Site 05
RECRUITINGLanzhou, Gansu, 730000, China
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Investigator Site 06
RECRUITINGZhanjiang, Guangdong, 524000, China
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Investigator Site 07
RECRUITINGGuangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China
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Investigator Site 08
RECRUITINGHuizhou, Guangxi, 516000, China
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Investigator Site 09
RECRUITINGNanning, Guangxi, 530000, China
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Investigator Site 10
RECRUITINGNanning, Guangxi, 530000, China
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Investigator Site 11
RECRUITINGGuiyang, Guizhou, 550000, China
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Investigator Site 12
RECRUITINGHaikou, Hainan, 570100, China
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Investigator Site 13
RECRUITINGShijiazhuang, Hebei, 050000, China
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Investigator Site 14
RECRUITINGPuyang, Henan, 457000, China
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Investigator Site 15
RECRUITINGNanyang, Henan, 473000, China
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Investigator Site 16
RECRUITINGNanyang, Henan, 473000, China
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Investigator Site 17
RECRUITINGYueyang, Hunan, 414000, China
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Investigator Site 18
RECRUITINGDaqing, Heilongjiang, 163000, China
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Investigator Site 19
RECRUITINGWuhan, Hubei, 430000, China
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Investigator Site 20
RECRUITINGShiyan, Hubei, 442000, China
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Investigator Site 21
RECRUITINGHuangshi, Hubei, 435000, China
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Investigator Site 22
RECRUITINGWuhan, Hubei, 430000, China
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Investigator Site 23
RECRUITINGZhuzhou, Hunan, 412000, China
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Investigator Site 24
RECRUITINGHengyang, Hunan, 421000, China
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Investigator Site 25
RECRUITINGXinxiang, Henan, 453000, China
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Investigator Site 26
RECRUITINGNantong, Jiangsu, 226000, China
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Investigator Site 27
RECRUITINGSuzhou, Jiangsu, 215000, China
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Investigator Site 28
RECRUITINGJiaxing, Zhejiang, 314000, China
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Investigator Site 29
RECRUITINGYangzhou, Jiangsu, 225000, China
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Investigator Site 30
RECRUITINGChangzhou, Jiangsu, 213000, China
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Investigator Site 31
RECRUITINGHuai'an, Jiangsu, 223001, China
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Investigator Site 32
RECRUITINGGanzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, China
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Investigator Site 33
RECRUITINGNanchang, Jiangxi, 330000, China
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Investigator Site 34
RECRUITINGShangrao, Jiangxi, 334000, China
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Investigator Site 35
RECRUITINGShenyang, Liaoning, 110000, China
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Investigator Site 36
RECRUITINGHohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010000, China
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Investigator Site 37
RECRUITINGChifeng, Inner Mongolia, 024000, China
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Investigator Site 38
RECRUITINGYinchuan, Ningxia, 750000, China
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Investigator Site 39
RECRUITINGTancheng, Shandong, 276100, China
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Investigator Site 40
RECRUITINGQingdao, Shandong, 266000, China
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Investigator Site 41
RECRUITINGJinan, Shandong, 250000, China
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Investigator Site 42
RECRUITINGXi'an, Shaanxi, 710000, China
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Investigator Site 43
RECRUITINGXi'an, Shaanxi, 710000, China
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Investigator Site 44
RECRUITINGShanghai, Shanghai Municipality, 200000, China
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Investigator Site 45
RECRUITINGChengdu, Sichuan, 610000, China
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Investigator Site 46
RECRUITINGDeyang, Sichuan, 618000, China
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Investigator Site 47
RECRUITINGChengdu, Sichuan, 610000, China
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Investigator Site 48
RECRUITINGChongqing, Chongqing Municipality, 404100, China
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Investigator Site 49
RECRUITINGZigong, Sichuan, 643000, China
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Investigator Site 50
RECRUITINGWenzhou, Zhejiang, 325000, China
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