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EASi-KIDNEY™ (The Studies of Heart & Kidney Protection With BI 690517 in Combination With Empagliflozin)
Key takeaways
This large trial tests a new drug (BI 690517) together with empagliflozin, an SGLT2 kidney medicine, in adults with chronic kidney disease who are at risk of getting worse. People with and without type 2 diabetes can join. The study is just opening, so there are no results yet.
Who did this work
Run by Boehringer Ingelheim.
Sites: Apogee Clinical Research · Southwest Kidney Institute · National Heart Institute · Florida Kidney Physicians LLC · Total Research Group, LLC · Emory University School of Medicine
Source
Trial · ClinicalTrials.gov, CKD recruiting · 2026-08-10
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06531824