About this trial
A Multicenter, randomized trial comparing the efficacy and safety of intensive lipid-lowering therapy using a statin-ezetimibe combination without aspirin versus statin monotherapy with aspirin in asymptomatic patients with coronary artery calcification
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Adults aged 19 years and older
Asymptomatic patients with significant coronary calcification (Agatston score ≥ 100) and no physiologically significant coronary artery disease (CAD)
The coronary CT scan used to establish the CAC score must be performed within 3 years prior to randomization.
The assessment of physiological significance must be performed within 6 months prior to randomization
Disqualifiers
Major ASCVD events (clinically documented ASCVD)
Acute coronary syndrome (MI or unstable angina)
Coronary revascularization (PCI, CABG) or other arterial revascularization
Ischemic stroke (Not TIA)
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Pitavastatin 4mg and ezetimibe 10mg, taken once daily
DrugIntensive lipid-lowering therapy without aspirin
Pitavastatin 2 mg with aspirin 100 mg, taken once daily.
DrugModerate-intensity lipid-lowering therapy with aspirin
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Event rate of a major adverse cardiovascular events
Death from any cause, myocardial infarction, stroke, urgent coronary revascularization, resuscitated cardiac arrest, or unstable angina related hospitalization
Secondary outcomes
Event rate of a all cause death
All-cause mortality was used instead of cardiac mortality to avoid potentially difficult adjudication of causes of death, especially given the relatively low expected mortality rate. In addition, the cause of death will be adjudicated as being due to cardiovascular causes, non-cardiovascular causes, or undetermined causes.
Event rate of a cardiovascular death
includes death resulting from an acute myocardial infarction (MI), sudden cardiac death, death due to heart failure (HF), death due to stroke, death due to cardiovascular (CV) procedures, death due to CV hemorrhage, and death due to other CV causes
Event rate of a spontaneous myocardial infarction
A spontaneous myocardial infarction related to atherosclerotic plaque rupture, ulceration, fissuring, erosion, or dissection, resulting in intraluminal thrombus in one or more of the coronary arteries
Event rate of a stroke
A. Ischemic Stroke B. Hemorrhagic Stroke C. Undetermined Stroke
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