Ardelyx to Present Additional Data Supporting First-In-Class XPHOZAH® (tenapanor) for Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease on Dialysis at the National Kidney Foundation 2024 Spring Clinical Meetings
WALTHAM, Mass., May 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ardelyx, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARDX), a biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative, first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs, today announced that additional data supporting XPHOZAH® (tenapanor) will be presented at the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) 2024 Spring Clinical Meetings, to be held May 14-18, 2024, in Long Beach, California. XPHOZAH, the first and only phosphate absorption inhibitor (PAI), is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce serum phosphorus in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on dialysis as add-on therapy in patients who have an inadequate response to phosphate binders or who are intolerant of any dose of phosphate binder therapy. XPHOZAH offers a different mechanism of action that blocks phosphate absorption at the primary pathway and is administered as a single tablet taken twice daily.