KVD900, an oral on-demand treatment for hereditary angioedema: Phase 1 study results
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Abstract
Background Attacks of hereditary angioedema are attributed to excessive plasma kallikrein (PKa) activity, which cleaves high-molecular-weight kininogen to generate the proinflammatory hormone bradykinin. Objective We evaluated the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), and pharmacodynamics (PD) of KVD900, an orally administered inhibitor of PKa in healthy adults. Methods KVD900 was administered in 2 clinical studies. In the first study, healthy adult men received single ascending doses (5−600 mg) of KVD900 capsule or placebo, single 100 mg doses of KVD900 tablet and KVD900 capsule (crossover), and single 600 mg doses of KVD900 (6 × 100 mg tablets) under fed and fasting conditions (crossover). In a second study, 3 cohorts of healthy adults were provided 600 mg of KVD900 tablets at 8-, 4-, and 2-hour intervals. Results Overall, 98 healthy participants received KVD900. All adverse events (AEs) were mild, except for a single moderate AE (headache). Exposure to KVD900 was proportional to dose. The PK parameters for KVD900 600 mg in tablet form under fasted conditions were mean (coefficient of variation) maximum plasma concentration of 6460 (22.0) ng/mL, mean (coefficient of variation) area under the curve (AUC 0-24 ) of 18,600 (22.5) h⋅ng/mL, and median (range) time to maximum plasma concentration of 0.5 (0.33-1.5) hours. Mean PKa inhibition was essentially complete (>98%) between 20 minutes and 3 hours, and >90% inhibition was maintained for at least 8 hours after dosing. High-molecular-weight kininogen cleavage protection at the 600 mg dose was attained within 20 minutes and maintained for 8 to 10 hours. Conclusion These phase 1 studies evaluated the PK/PD profile of KVD900, showing that KVD900 rapidly achieves near-complete PKa inhibition and is generally safe and well tolerated. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT04349800
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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