RecruitingPhase 3

Maridebart Cafraglutide in Heart Failure With Preserved or Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction and Obesity

A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Maridebart Cafraglutide on Mortality and Morbidity in Participants Living With Heart Failure With Preserved or Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction and Obesity (MARITIME-HF)

Who can join

As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.

Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Sex
All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
Compensation
Mentioned in the study description

Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation
Mentioned in the study description
  • Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
  • Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
  • Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
  • Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

In plain language

This study tests whether maridebart cafraglutide, added to usual heart failure care, can reduce hospital stays, urgent visits, and deaths from heart or blood vessel problems, and improve symptoms. It is for adults with obesity and heart failure whose hearts still pump more than 40% of the blood out with each beat.

This trial will examine if maridebart cafraglutide as an adjunct to standard of care will lead to a reduction in heart failure (HF) events such as HF hospitalizations and urgent HF visits, cardiovascular (CV) deaths and improvement in HF symptoms in participants with HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and HF with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) who are obese. This is a phase 3, global, multicenter, 2-part trial with a double-blind period and an open-label extension (OLE). The trial is event-driven, and Part 1 will conclude when approximately 850 primary endpoint events have occurred.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Who can join

  • Age 18 or older.
  • Body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight compared with height, of 30 or higher.
  • Heart failure diagnosed at least 30 days ago, with symptoms rated NYHA class II–IV.
  • Receiving usual treatments for heart failure.
  • A heart test within the past 12 months shows a pumping measure called ejection fraction above 40%.

Who can't join

  • Certain heart attacks, heart procedures, major heart surgery, or stroke within 60 days before screening or during screening.
  • A hospital stay for suddenly worsening heart failure during screening, or heart failure caused by certain heart muscle, heart lining, valve, or birth-related heart problems.
  • Diabetes other than type 2 or past pregnancy-related diabetes. For type 2 diabetes, certain blood sugar problems, recent serious diabetes crises, or serious diabetes-related eye disease also exclude people.
  • Top blood pressure number of 180 or higher, or above 160 while taking at least three blood pressure medicines.
  • Long-term pancreas inflammation, recent sudden pancreas inflammation, liver inflammation, kidney filtering level below 20, or dialysis.
  • A personal or close family history of medullary thyroid cancer or MEN-2, an inherited condition linked to tumors; or a calcitonin blood level of 50 or higher.
  • Unstable major depression or another severe mental illness within two years, any past suicide attempt, or self-injury without suicidal intent within five years. Other conditions may also prevent safe participation or study completion.
  • Use of GLP-1, GIP, or amylin medicines within 90 days before screening, during screening, or planned during the study.

Simplified for readability. The official criteria below are what the study team uses.

Official eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 years at the time of informed consent. * BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m\^2 at randomization. * HF diagnosed for at least 30 days with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II-IV at the time of informed consent. * Managed with HF standard of care therapies. * Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of \> 40% within 12 months before randomization. Exclusion Criteria: * History of any of the following within 60 days prior to or during screening: Type I (spontaneous) MI, valvular replacement or repair, coronary revascularization, coronary artery bypass graft surgery or other major cardiovascular surgery, stroke. * HF due to: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, infiltrative cardiomyopathy, active or chronic myocarditis, constrictive pericarditis, cardiac tamponade, arrhythmogenic right ventricular or left ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia, uncorrected primary valvular heart disease, clinically significant congenital heart disease. * Hospitalized with acute decompensated HF at the time of or during the screening period. * Type 1 diabetes mellitus, or any type of diabetes with the exception of T2DM or history of gestational diabetes. * For participants with a prior diagnosis of T2DM (including those diagnosed during screening): 1. HbA1c \> 10.0% (86 mmol/mol) at screening 2. Uncontrolled diabetes requiring immediate therapy 3. History of diabetic ketoacidosis or hyperosmolar state/coma within 12 months before randomization 4. One or more episodes of severe hypoglycemia within 6 months before randomization and/or history of hypoglycemia unawareness 5. History or presence of either proliferative diabetic retinopathy, or diabetic maculopathy, or severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy; or currently receiving or planning to receive treatment for diabetic retinopathy and/or macular edema. * SBP ≥ 180 mmHg during the screening period, or on three or more blood pressure-lowering drugs with a SBP \> 160 mmHg during the screening period (including day 1 prior to randomization). * History of chronic pancreatitis or acute pancreatitis in the 180 days before screening or during the screening period. * Any personal lifetime history of, or family history(first-degree relative\[s\]) of medullary thyroid carcinoma or MEN-2. * eGFR \< 20 mL/min/1.73 m\^2 (CKD-EPI creatinine (Cr)-cystatin C equation) or receiving dialysis at screening. * Calcitonin ≥ 50 ng/L (pg/mL) at screening. * Acute or chronic hepatitis. * Any of the following psychiatric history: 1. History of unstable major depressive disorder or other severe psychiatric disorder within 2 years prior to screening or during the screening period 2. Lifetime history of suicide attempt 3. History of non-suicidal self-injury within 5 years prior to screening or during the screening period. * History of any other condition that, in the opinion of the investigator, may preclude the participant from following the protocol and completing the trial. * Use of any glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA), glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) agonists or antagonists, or amylin analogs within 90 days prior to or during the screening period or planned use during the conduct of the trial.

Study sites (121)

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