A Study of AST-120 for Evaluating Prevention of Progression In Chronic Kidney Disease (EPPIC-1)
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00500682. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Official title
A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of AST-120 for Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression in Patients With Moderate to Severe Chronic Kidney Disease
Brief summary
Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.
1\) To evaluate the effectiveness of AST-120 (spherical carbon adsorbent) added to standard-of-care therapy in moderate to severe Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), on time to first occurrence of any event of the triple composite outcome of initiation of dialysis, kidney transplant or doubling of serum creatinine (sCr) when compared with placebo; 2) To evaluate the safety and tolerability of long-term AST-120 therapy in patients with CKD; 3) To evaluate the effects of AST-120 versus placebo, on other measures of renal function.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00500682
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 1,020 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 2007 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Oct 2011 (Actual)
- Completion
- Oct 2011 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Jan 8, 2026
2007 – 2011
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 41
- U.S. states
- 20
- U.S. cities
- 41
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| Not listed | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | — | — |
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| Not listed | Rock Hill | South Carolina | — | — |
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| Not listed | Houston | Texas | — | — |
| Not listed | San Antonio | Texas | — | — |
| Not listed | Appleton | Wisconsin | — | — |
| Not listed | Oshkosh | Wisconsin | — | — |
Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.
Non-U.S. locations
This page focuses on the U.S. directory. The official record also lists 64 non-U.S. sites.
About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00500682, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
- Where the data comes from
- Sourced from the official ClinicalTrials.gov public API. The official record is the source of truth.
- Last refresh
- Last update posted Jan 8, 2026 · Synced Oct 21, 2026
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