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BID=twice a day cheap oxybutynin 2.5mg online, CHD=coronary heart disease discount 2.5mg oxybutynin with visa, IMT=intimal-medial thickness, MLD=minimum lumen diameter, MI=myocardial infarction, qpm=every evening Statins Page 241 of 395 Final Report Update 5 Drug Effectiveness Review Project Evidence Table 3. Placebo-controlled trials of patients with atherosclerosis Author Study Mean Percent LDL- Year Patient Duration Baseline LDL- c Reduction Study Name Study Characteristics Characteristics Intervention (mean) c from baseline Pitt et al. BID=twice a day, CHD=coronary heart disease, IMT=intimal-medial thickness, MLD=minimum lumen diameter, MI=myocardial infarction, qpm=every evening Statins Page 242 of 395 Final Report Update 5 Drug Effectiveness Review Project Evidence Table 3. Placebo-controlled trials of patients with atherosclerosis Author Primary Endpoint Year Results (clinical Clinical Outcomes Study Name Primary Endpoint health outcome only) Measured Clinical Outcome Results Pitt et al. Although not statistically significant, Atherosclerosis in coronary arteriography. CHD death, nonfatal there were 37 PTCA in placebo vs. A total of 81 events occurred in (PLAC- I) any cause and total clinic placebo vs. However, there was a Prevention Study ultrasound examinations in the trend to less clinical cardiovascular events in (KAPS) average of maximum carotid the pravastatin group, primarily MI. All-cause progression as assessed by nonscheduled PTCA or mortality was significantly reduced in the coronary angiography. Placebo-controlled trials of patients with atherosclerosis Author Year Study Name Comments/Conclusions Pitt et al. The Pravastatin only significant difference in individual events was a Limitation of reduction in the rate of MI in the pravastatin vs. All randomized patients were Coronary Arteries included in the clinical event analysis. Fair in quality (PLAC- I) to assess differences in clinical events, although a relatively small study population. Atherosclerosis However, there was a trend in favor of pravastatin. Prevention Study Fair-poor in quality to determine differences in clinical (KAPS) events between groups. There was a trend to a reduction in clinical cardiac events in the pravastatin vs. There was a significant reduction in overall mortality with pravastatin vs. Fair in quality to assess difference in clinical events. BID=twice a day, CHD=coronary heart disease, IMT=intimal-medial thickness, MLD=minimum lumen diameter, MI=myocardial infarction, qpm=every evening Statins Page 244 of 395 Final Report Update 5 Drug Effectiveness Review Project Evidence Table 3. Placebo-controlled trials of patients with atherosclerosis Author Study Mean Percent LDL- Year Patient Duration Baseline LDL- c Reduction Study Name Study Characteristics Characteristics Intervention (mean) c from baseline Simoons 1994 Randomized, double- 404 men and women 30- Simvastatin 20 mg 4 years 169 mg/dl 31% Multicentre Anti- blind, placebo- 67 years with 2 or > qpm or placebo (4. BID=twice a day, CHD=coronary heart disease, IMT=intimal-medial thickness, MLD=minimum lumen diameter, MI=myocardial infarction, qpm=every evening Statins Page 245 of 395 Final Report Update 5 Drug Effectiveness Review Project Evidence Table 3. Placebo-controlled trials of patients with atherosclerosis Author Primary Endpoint Year Results (clinical Clinical Outcomes Study Name Primary Endpoint health outcome only) Measured Clinical Outcome Results Simoons 1994 Per-patient average of mean N/A Clinical events were After 4 years, there was no difference in clinical Multicentre Anti- lumen diameters of all coronary reported spontaneously. There were a greater Atheroma Study segments(diffuse number of MI in the simvastatin vs placebo atherosclerosis) and the per- groups. There were more revascularizations in patient average of MLD of all the placebo vs. Neither of segments that were these were statistically different. Overall, there atheromatous at baseline, follow were 40 cardiac events in the simvastatin vs. Placebo-controlled trials of patients with atherosclerosis Author Year Study Name Comments/Conclusions Simoons 1994 There were no statistical differences in clinical events Multicentre Anti- in the simvastatin vs. Fair to poor in Atheroma Study quality to assess differences in clinical event due to duration of trial, however was a relatively small sample size. Simvastatin/Enala No differences were noted in any other clinical pril Coronary events. Fair in quality to assess differences in clinical Atherosclerosis events since clinical events were prespecified. However, there Coronary was a trend in favor of lovastatin. Mean lovastatin Atherosclerosis dose=36 mg/d and 69% met NCEP goal). Fair-poor in Intervention Trial quality to assess differences in clinical events.