Bayer's Kerendia backed for NHS use in England

24 March 2023

UK health technology assessor the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new guidance (TA877) recommending the use of finerenone (10mg and 20mg) by NHS England as an option for treating chronic kidney disease (CKD) (stage 3 and 4 with albuminuria) associated with type 2 diabetes in adults, German pharma major Bayer (BAYN: DE) announced.

Finerenone, which was approved by UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) a year ago, is recommended as an add-on to optimized standard care, which should include, unless they are unsuitable, the highest tolerated licensed doses of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs), and sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, for people who have an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 25ml/min/1.73 m2 or more.

Finerenone is the only licensed oral non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist for the treatment of CKD associated with T2D that has been recommended by the NICE, according to Bayer.

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