Impact of Dapagliflozin on Intestinal Microbiota Composition and on the Metabolites Derived From the Intestinal Microbiota in Non-diabetic Chronic Renal Failure Patients (DAPA-GUT)

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common disease affecting 10-12% of the adult population and characterize with high-risk cardiovascular morbidity and mortality with progression of CKD. Treatment with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (iSGLT2) not only improves hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes (T2D) but also results in body-weight loss, a reduction in blood pressure, and a decrease of cardiovascular events and progression of renal failure in both diabetes and non-diabetes patients.(Heerspink et al. 2020) Therefore, dapagliflozin is now associated with the inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system to reduce kidney events.

However, the mechanisms underlying the effects of dapagliflozin on the renal function remain unclear. When renal failure occurs, it impairs the removal of several metabolites called uremic retention solutes. If these retention solutes exhibit deleterious interferences with biochemical/physiological functions, they are referred to as uremic toxins as they can contribute to the manifestations of the uremic syndrome and are associated with a high cardiovascular morbidity and mortality and with progression of CKD. Many of the uremic toxins are not produced by the body itself but rather derived from gut microbiota metabolism such as the well-known trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO),p-cresyl sulfate (PCS), phenyl sulfate (PS), indoxyl sulfate (IS), and indole-3-acetic acid (IAA).The gut microbiota composition in a uremic context has been the subject of an increasing number of publications and majority of them confirm a decrease of gut microbiota richness and deep modifications.Recently, an animal study suggested that dapagliflozin, subtly improve the composition of the gut microbiota in mice with T2D and another preliminary clinical study didn't observe a modification in the fecal microbiome after dapagliflozin initiation.But in other study, empagliflozin significantly reshaped the gut microbiota after 1 month of treatment in T2D patients and be associated with shifts in plasma metabolites. Similarly, canagliflozin reduces plasma uremic toxins in a CKD mice model.However, it remains unknown whether treatment with dapagliflozin alters the gut microbiota in CKD patients without T2D; furthermore, the relationship between the gut microbiota, uremic toxins production and CKD-related beneficial effects of dapagliflozin remains elusive.

Herein, the investigator will investigate the clinical benefits of dapagliflozin and possible associations between its renal function benefits and alterations in plasmatic gut microbiota-derived metabolites and the gut microbiota composition in non-T2D CKD patients. To this end, the investigator will conduct an observational clinical trial in non-T2D CKD patients with the primary aim of investigating dapagliflozin-induced compositional changes of intestinal gut microbiota.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Chronic Kidney Diseases
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: impact of Dapagliflozin on Intestinal Microbiota on chronic renal failure patients

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Lyon, France
    • Nephrology department, Hôpital Lyon Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 18 and 80 years old
• Non-diabetic patient

• PChronic renal failure patient with a medical indication for the introduction of dapagliflozin as part of routine care: o either according to the marketing authorization, namely:

  • A GFR estimated between 25 and 60 mL/min/1.73m2 according to the CKD EPI formula.
  • A urinary albumin/creatinine ratio > 200mg/g and < 5000 mg/g
  • Be treated with the maximum tolerated dose of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors for at least 4 weeks. o or according to the nephrologist's assessment if the patient has other indications such as chronic heart failure according to the marketing authorization or any patient with a GFR > 20 ml/min according to the KDIGO recommendations for the management of CKD
• BMI between 18 and 30 kg/m2
• Patient not taking dapagliflozin (or any other treatment containing iSGLT2 or iSGLT1)
• Very regular bowel movements between 24 and 48 hours
• Patient following the dietary recommendations recommended during CKD (a sodium intake targeting 6g NaCl/day +/-20% and a protein intake of 0.6g/kg/d +/-20%)
• Affiliation to social security

Exclusion Criteria:

• Taking drugs can interfere with the intestinal microbiota (prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, antibiotics) in the last 6 weeks
• Patient using high dose laxatives (more than 2 per day, for more than 3 months)
• Patient with a foreseeable transplant or dialysis project within the next 6 months.
• Patient with a colectomy, a resection of the small intestine or a cholecystectomy
• Patient with a progressive and unstabilized inflammatory, infectious, cardiovascular or neoplastic disease
• Inability to understand the nature, follow-up and possible consequences of the study.
• Patient in exclusion period from previous study or already participating in a clinical research protocol having an impact on the endpoints of the study
• Patient under guardianship or in safeguard of justice
• Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding women

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Other: impact of Dapagliflozin on Intestinal Microbiota on chronic renal failure patients; Addition of 3 blood tubes of 5mL during the collection for the treatment; Collection of fresh urine (7 mL); Collection of stools by the participant at his home; Collection of fresh stools for patients participating in the ancillary study; Constitution of a biocollection (blood, urine and stool); Food collection for 3 days with no impact on patient follow-up; Stool appearance sheet to be completed by the patient at each collection

Drug: impact of Dapagliflozin on Intestinal Microbiota on chronic renal failure patients; Analysis of microbiota

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Alpha diversity and beta diversity size of the intestinal microbiota after 12 weeks of daily treatment with dapagliflozin compared to alfa and beta diversity size before initiation of treatment.	The analysis of the microbiota by 16s sequencing of bacterial DNA will be carried out on the GenEPII platform located at the Croix Rousse hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon (Pr Sophie JARRAUD).	Before and 12 weeks after initiation of treatment with dapagliflozin

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 20, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 2, 2026
• Study Completion (Actual): February 2, 2026

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 20, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 20, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): July 28, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 20, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 18, 2026
• Last Verified: February 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: CKD; gut microbiota; metabolomic; uremic toxin; gliflozine
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Urogenital Diseases; Pathologic Processes; Male Urogenital Diseases; Kidney Diseases; Urologic Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases; Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications; Chronic Disease; Disease Attributes; Renal Insufficiency; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic; Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Hypoglycemic Agents; Dapagliflozin
• Other Study ID Numbers: 69HCL23_0410

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No