Relation of lipid-lowering therapy to need for aortic valve replacement in patients with asymptomatic mild to moderate aortic stenosis |
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Author: | Greve, Anders M.1; Bang, Casper N.2; Boman, Kurt3; |
Organizations: |
1Department of Clinical Biochemistry , Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 2Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 3Department of Medicine, Institution of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Skelleftå, Sweden
4Medicinsk Afdeling, OUH Svendborg Sygehus, Denmark
5Department of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu and Clinical Research Center, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland 6Manchester Academic Health Sciences Center, University Hospitals of South Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom 7Center for Preventive medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 8Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.8 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2019120545822 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier,
2019
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Publish Date: | 2020-09-07 |
Description: |
AbstractIn this study, we aimed to determine if pretreatment low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels and aortic stenosis (AS) severity alter the efficacy of lipid-lowering therapy on reducing aortic valve replacement (AVR). We used 1,687 patients with asymptomatic mild-to-moderate AS, who were randomly assigned (1:1) to 40/10 mg simvastatin/ezetimibe combination versus. placebo in the simvastatin and ezetimibe in aortic stenosis (SEAS) trial. Pretreatment LDL levels (>4 mmol/L) and peak aortic jet velocity (3 m/s) were used to partition study participants into 4 groups, which were followed for a primary endpoint of AVR. Cox regression with tests for interaction was used to study the effect of randomized treatment in each subgroup. During a median follow-up of 4.3 years (IQR 4.2 to 4.7 years; total 7,396 patient-years of follow-up), 478 (28%) patients underwent AVR and 146 (9%) died. A significant risk dependency was detected between simvastatin/ezetimibe combination, LDL levels and mild versus moderate AS on rates of AVR (p = 0.01 for interaction). In stratified analyses, randomized treatment, therefore, reduced the rate of AVR in patients with LDL levels >4 mmol and mild AS at baseline (HR 0.4; 95% CI: 0.2 to 0.9). There was no detectable effect of randomized treatment on the need for AVR in the 3 other participants subgroups. We conclude, that in a secondary analysis from a prospective randomized clinical trial, treatment with simvastatin/ezetimibe combination reduced the need for AVR in a subset of patients with mild AS and high pretreatment LDL levels (Unique identifier on clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00092677). see all
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Series: |
The American journal of cardiology |
ISSN: | 0002-9149 |
ISSN-E: | 1879-1913 |
ISSN-L: | 0002-9149 |
Volume: | 124 |
Issue: | 11 |
Pages: | 1736 - 1740 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.08.037 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.08.037 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine |
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Copyright information: |
© 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |