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Akebia Therapeutics Announces Data on Different Dosing Regimens of Ferric Citrate for Iron Deficiency Anemia Presented at 57th ERA-EDTA Virtual Congress
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of
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[{"type":"text","content":"CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, today announced that data from an investigational clinical research study on different dose regimens of ferric citrate for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia was presented at the 57th ERA-EDTA Virtual Congress, which took place June 6-9, 2020. For more information about the virtual event, visit: https://www.era-edta.org/en/virtualcongress2020/. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThe presentation titled, \"Different Ferric Citrate Dose Regimens in the Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Patients with Non-Dialysis-Dependent CKD: The COMPASS Trial,\" (Abstract SO050) was presented virtually online at the ERA-EDTA Virtual Congress. The abstract is now available in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation online here. \nThe COMPASS trial was designed to investigate the efficacy and safety of dosing ferric citrate twice-daily as compared to the current U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved dosing of ferric citrate three times daily in adult patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) not on dialysis. Adult patients were randomized to receive either one ferric citrate tablet three times daily or two ferric citrate tablets twice daily. The presentation will report data through week 24 of the 48-week study. \nAkebia markets ferric citrate in the U.S. as Auryxia® (ferric citrate), which is approved for two indications: the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with CKD on dialysis, and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult patients with CKD not on dialysis. \nThis study was funded by Akebia. \nAbout Akebia Therapeutics Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease. The Company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. \nAbout Auryxia® (ferric citrate) Tablets Auryxia (ferric citrate) was approved by FDA on September 5, 2014 for the control of serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with CKD on dialysis and approved by FDA on November 6, 2017 for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult patients with CKD not on dialysis. For more information about Auryxia and the U.S. full prescrib...