المؤلفون: Engelbrecht, J., Finfer, S., Van Dyk, C., Cohen, Alexander, Grandes, J., Cepeda, J. M., NAZLIEL, BİJEN, Cohen, Alexander T., Efrati, S., Zakai, N., Yousef, K., Wichman, T., Whitman, B., Welker, J., Welch, M., Warner, A., Updegrove, J., Tuck, M., Stoltz, S., Sokol, S., Sharma, S., Shammas, N., Saba, F., Rodriguez, W., Rees, C., Rastogi, P., Rajan, R., Quintana, O., Pullman, J., Pratt, R., Pineda, L., Pearl, R., Parthiban, K., Overcash, J., Ortel, T., Ohaju, V., Nadar, V., Mittal, M., Milling, T., McLaren, G., Margolis, B., Mahal, S., Macchiavelli, A., Lopez, J., Lerner, R., Kung, M., Kouras, F., Kazimir, M., Kao, C-K., Kabler, H., Ioachimescu, O., Hazelrigg, M., Hamad, A., Haidar, A., Hahn, B., Goytia-Leos, D., Gaggin, H., Fulmer, J., Fraiz, J., Fermann, G., Farley, B., Doshi, A., Dhingra, R., Cornell, J., Concha, M., Clark, C., Chang, H., Carman, T., Bidair, M., Bercz, P., Bastani, A., Barney, J., Baker, S., Anderson, C., Amin, M., Almasri, E., Natarajan, I., McCollum, C., MacCallum, P., Davis, M., Body, R., Yagensky, A., Voronkov, L., Vishnivestsky, I., Vakaliuk, I., Ursol, G., Tseluyko, V., Svyshchenko, Y., Svyridova, I., Ryabichenko, T., Rudenko, L., Alekniene, B., Reshotko, D., Perepeliuk, M., Parkhomenko, O., Nikonov, V., Maslovaskyi, V., Malynovsky, Y., Legkonogov, O., Kyrychenko, I., Krakhmalova, O., Koshlia, V., Kopytsya, M., Karpenko, O., Gryb, V., Goncharova, Y., Goloborodko, B., Goloborodko, A., Godlevska, O., Burmak, I., Brozhyk, J., Batushkin, V., Abrahamovych, O., Tuncay, E., Topcuoglu, M., Tigen, K., Okumus, G., Kutluk, H., Kirma, C., Kilichesmez, K., Guneri, S., Akgul, O., Villalta, J., Vargas Nunez, J. A., Trujillo, J., Riera, A., Richart, C., Mellibovsky, L., Jimenez, D., Gonzales-Porras, J. R., Gomez Cerezo, J., Ferrer, R., Diaz Santos, E., Cereto, F., Castro Guardiola, A., Bisbe, J., Barbagelata Lopez, C., Alvarez Sala, L. A., Mitha, I., Breedt, J., Basson, M., Adler, D., Spisakova, M., Prokop, D., Payer, J., Krastev, G., Kokles, M., Hrubon, A., Herman, O., Dvorak, M., Cervenakova, A., Bodikova, S., Miloradovic, V., Kovacevic-Kuzmanovic, A., Ilic, S., Celic, V., Apostolovic, S., Vishnevskiy, A., Vishneva, E., Solovyov, O., Simanenkov, V., Shvarts, Y., Shpagina, L., Shapovalova, Y., Sergeeva, E., Reshetko, O., Privalova, E., Popov, D., Nilk, R., Nikolaev, K., Mordovin, V., Maslova, N., Martynenko, V., Martynenko, T., Malygin, A., Kostenko, V., Kosmacheva, E., Kobalava, Z., Klein, G., Khachatryan, N., Goloshchekin, B., Ershova, O., Dovgalevskiy, Y., Chefranova, Z., Boldueva, S., Bogdanov, E., Belskaya, G., Barbarash, O., Averkov, O., Arkhipov, M., Apartsin, K., Andreev, D., Abashev, A., Vida-Simiti, L., Stanciulescu, G., Stamate, S., Harrington, Robert A., Goldhaber, Samuel Z., Hull, Russell D., Popescu, M., Wiens, Brian L., Gold, Alex, Hernandez, Adrian F., Gibson, C. 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Toche, Lemor, Alejandro, Zacarkim, Marcelo, Romero, Gonzalo, Hernandez Elenes, Jesus Rosario, Alvarado, Alonso, Susheela, Ammu, Leitao, Meghan, Salas, M., Bandman, Olga, Horna, M., Strumph, Peter, Vinh, Nancy, Visona, A., Kostadinova, M., Vance, Annemarie, Moia, M., Wiens, Brian, Orlandini, F., Parisi, R., Pontaga, N., Smoak, Carey, Storgaard, M., Molteni, M., Castelino, Rennie, Goodman, Shelly, Stukena, I., Leeds, Janet, al-Khalidi, Hussein, Milanova, M., Karlo, L. Farjardo, Leimberger, Jeffrey, Phillips, Thomas, Rizos, T., Pencheva, G., Pomero, F., Francis, Charles, Novo, S., Pereyra, R. Cotrina, Tiefenbacher, C., Buller, Harry, Roberts, Robin, Prins, Martin, Weimar, C., Tuxen, C., Urhammer, S., Lember, M., Runev, N., Uuetoa, T., Spyropoulos, Alex, Carrier, Marc, Alkonyi, B., Lopes, Renato D., Horacek, T., Airaksinen, J., Honkaniemi, J., Pottier, P., Falukozy, J., Kaaja, R., Stoeva, N., Saarinen, J., Stoyanov, M., Pizzini, A., Devor, Adam, Tatlisumak, T., Kolls, Bradley, Dedrick, Joseph, Todd, Jamie, Jones, William Schuyler, Vikman, S., Agraou, B., Futo, L., Castillo Leon, R., Eapen, Zubin, Katona, A., Proust, A., Quere, I., Kirschner, R., Syulemzova, S., Valavicius, A., Todorov, G., Tokmakova, M., Dhar, A., Klimpe, S., Ahmad, Tariq, Brenna, J. 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المساهمون: Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital [London], Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, Brigham and Women's Hospital [Boston], Thrombosis Research Unit, University of Calgary, Portola Pharmaceuticals (Portola), PORTOLA PHARMACEUTICALS, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI - DURHAM), Duke University [Durham], Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center [Boston, USA], Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS), Groupe d'Etude de la Thrombose de Bretagne Occidentale (GETBO), Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO), Centre d'Investigation Clinique (CIC - Brest), Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Brest (UBO)

المصدر: Dipòsit Digital de la UB
Universidad de Barcelona
New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Society, 2016, 375 (6), pp.534-544. ⟨10.1056/NEJMoa1601747⟩

مصطلحات موضوعية: Male, Pyridines, Medizin, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Randomized controlled trial, Risk Factors, law, 030212 general & internal medicine, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Ultrasonography, Venous Thrombosis, Factors de risc en les malalties, Medicine (all), Acute Disease, Adult, Aged, Benzamides, Double-Blind Method, Drug Administration Schedule, Factor Xa Inhibitors, Female, Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products, Hemorrhage, Hospitalization, Humans, Middle Aged, Pulmonary Embolism, Venous Thromboembolism, General Medicine, 3. Good health, Pulmonary embolism, Venous thrombosis, Cohort, medicine.medical_specialty, Patients, Risk factors in diseases, Placebo, 03 medical and health sciences, [SDV.MHEP.CSC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Cardiology and cardiovascular system, Internal medicine, Thromboembolism, medicine, Pacients, Betrixaban, Thromboprophylaxis, Acutely Ill Medical Patients, Tromboembolisme, business.industry, Settore MED/09 - MEDICINA INTERNA, ta3121, Population cohort, medicine.disease, Surgery, chemistry, Once daily, business

الوصف: Background\ud Patients with acute medical illnesses are at prolonged risk for venous thrombosis. However, the appropriate duration of thromboprophylaxis remains unknown.\ud \ud Methods\ud Patients who were hospitalized for acute medical illnesses were randomly assigned to receive subcutaneous enoxaparin (at a dose of 40 mg once daily) for 10±4 days plus oral betrixaban placebo for 35 to 42 days or subcutaneous enoxaparin placebo for 10±4 days plus oral betrixaban (at a dose of 80 mg once daily) for 35 to 42 days. We performed sequential analyses in three prespecified, progressively inclusive cohorts: patients with an elevated d-dimer level (cohort 1), patients with an elevated d-dimer level or an age of at least 75 years (cohort 2), and all the enrolled patients (overall population cohort). The statistical analysis plan specified that if the between-group difference in any analysis in this sequence was not significant, the other analyses would be considered exploratory. The primary efficacy outcome was a composite of asymptomatic proximal deep-vein thrombosis and symptomatic venous thromboembolism. The principal safety outcome was major bleeding.\ud \ud Results\ud A total of 7513 patients underwent randomization. In cohort 1, the primary efficacy outcome occurred in 6.9% of patients receiving betrixaban and 8.5% receiving enoxaparin (relative risk in the betrixaban group, 0.81; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.65 to 1.00; P=0.054). The rates were 5.6% and 7.1%, respectively (relative risk, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.98; P=0.03) in cohort 2 and 5.3% and 7.0% (relative risk, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.63 to 0.92; P=0.006) in the overall population. (The last two analyses were considered to be exploratory owing to the result in cohort 1.) In the overall population, major bleeding occurred in 0.7% of the betrixaban group and 0.6% of the enoxaparin group (relative risk, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.67 to 2.12; P=0.55).\ud \ud Conclusions\ud Among acutely ill medical patients with an elevated d-dimer level, there was no significant difference between extended-duration betrixaban and a standard regimen of enoxaparin in the prespecified primary efficacy outcome. However, prespecified exploratory analyses provided evidence suggesting a benefit for betrixaban in the two larger cohorts. (Funded by Portola Pharmaceuticals; APEX ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01583218. opens in new tab.)

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المؤلفون: Akosile, Wole¹ wole.akosile@hdr.qut.edu.au, Colquhoun, David², Young, Ross³, Lawford, Bruce⁴, Voisey, Joanne⁵

المصدر: Australasian Psychiatry. Oct2018, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p524-530. 7p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *POST-traumatic stress disorder, *CORONARY disease, *MENTAL depression, *PATIENTS, *PSYCHOLOGY information storage & retrieval systems, *MEDLINE, *META-analysis, *SYSTEMATIC reviews, *COMORBIDITY, CORONARY artery abnormalities

مستخلص: Objectives: There are some psychosocial factors that have similar importance to biological factors in the genesis of coronary diseases. However, reasons for high rates of coronary heart disease in individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are yet to be fully elucidated. Using a meta-analysis, we investigated the longitudinal relationship between PTSD and coronary heart disease (CHD) as an independent factor in the aetiology of CHD.Methods: The databases of Medline, EBSCOhost and Psychoinfo were electronically searched for relevant articles.Results: The pooled hazard ratio (HR) for the magnitude of the relationship between PTSD and CHD was an HR of 1.61, and p-value of p < 0.0005, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.46-1.77] before adjustment for depression in nine studies ( N = 151,144) that met inclusion criteria. The HR estimates for the seven depression-adjusted estimates was 1.46, and a p-value of p < 0.0005, 95% CI[0.26-1.69].Conclusions: This study demonstrates an association between CHD and PTSD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

المؤلفون: Simons, Leon A., Ortiz, Michael, Freedman, Ben, Waterhouse, Benjamin J., Colquhoun, David, Freedman, S Ben

المصدر: Current Medical Research & Opinion; Jul2017, Vol. 33 Issue 7, p1337-1341, 5p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ATRIAL fibrillation, WARFARIN, APIXABAN, PATIENTS, DRUG therapy, STROKE prevention, ANTICOAGULANTS, HETEROCYCLIC compounds, ORAL drug administration, PYRIDINE, COMORBIDITY

مصطلحات جغرافية: AUSTRALIA

مستخلص: Objective: Long-term anticoagulant therapy with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is essential to prevent thromboembolic complications, especially ischemic stroke. This study examines medium-term persistence in AF patients using a non-vitamin-K antagonist oral anticoagulant drug (NOAC).Research Design and Methods: We assessed national Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme records December 2013 through September 2016 for initial prescription of a NOAC in a 10% random sample of concessional patients. Key outcome measures were: (a) proportions filling first repeat prescription, (b) proportions persisting with NOAC over 12 and 30 months and (c) proportions switching to another NOAC or warfarin.Results: A total of 8656 patients with AF initiated a NOAC (3352 apixaban, 1340 dabigatran, 3964 rivaroxaban). Mean age was 77 years, 53% male; 91% collected the first repeat prescription for any NOAC, 70% and 57% collected any NOAC or subsequent warfarin prescription over 12 months and 30 months respectively; 8.9% had switched to warfarin. The proportions switching from apixaban, dabigatran and rivaroxaban to a different NOAC were 14%, 31% and 17% respectively. In a regression model adjusting for age, gender and comorbidity, apixaban-initiated patients over 30 months were 28% more likely to persist with any anticoagulant therapy compared with dabigatran-initiated patients (hazard ratio [95% CI] 1.28 [1.16-1.42]) and 15% more likely to persist compared with rivaroxaban-initiated (1.15 [1.06-1.24]). Rivaroxaban-initiated patients were 12% more likely to persist compared with dabigatran-initiated patients (1.12 [1.02-1.24]).Conclusions: Long-term persistence with anticoagulation in patients with AF remains a concern, even with NOACs. Patients initiated to apixaban appear to experience better medium-term persistence compared with rivaroxaban or dabigatran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Tonkin, Andrew M, Colquhoun, David, Emberson, Jonathan, Hague, Wendy, Keech, Anthony, Lane, Geoffrey, MacMahon, Stephen, Shaw, John, Simes, R John, Thompson, Peter L, White, Harvey D, Hunt, David

المصدر: Lancet. 12/02/2000, Vol. 356 Issue 9245, p1871. 5p. 3 Charts, 2 Graphs.

مصطلحات موضوعية: CORONARY heart disease prevention, MYOCARDIAL infarction, HEART diseases, ANGINA pectoris treatment, PATIENTS

مستخلص: SummaryBackground: The LIPID study is a major trial of secondary prevention of coronary-heart-disease events that includes hospital admission with unstable angina (as well as myocardial infarction) as a qualifying event. In this substudy of LIPID, we compared subsequent cardiovascular risks and the effects of pravastatin in patients with previous unstable angina or previous myocardial infarction.Methods: 3260 patients diagnosed with unstable angina and 5754 with acute myocardial infarction 3-36 months previously were randomly assigned 40 mg pravastatin daily or placebo over a mean of 6.0 years. The risk reduction of a range of cardiovascular events was estimated by means of the hazard ratio in Cox's proportional hazards model.Findings: Among patients assigned placebo, survival in the two diagnosis groups was similar. The relative risk reduction for mortality with pravastatin was 20.6% in the myocardial infarction group and 26.3% in the unstable angina group (p=0.55). Pravastatin significantly reduced the rates of all prespecified coronary endpoints in the myocardial infarction group. In patients with previous unstable angina, coronary heart disease mortality, total mortality, myocardial infarction, a need for coronary revascularisation, the number of admissions to hospital, and the number of days in hospital were significantly lower with pravastatin. Overall, hospital admission for unstable angina was the most common endpoint (24.6% of the placebo group; 22.3% of the pravastatin group).Interpretation: Patients who have survived acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina have a similar long-term prognosis, a high occurrence of subsequent unstable angina, and benefit similarly from therapy with pravastatin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Stroes, Erik¹ e.s.stroes@amc.uva.nl, Colquhoun, David², Sullivan, David³, Civeira, Fernando⁴, Rosenson, Robert S.⁵, Watts, Gerald F.⁶, Bruckert, Eric⁷, Cho, Leslie⁸, Dent, Ricardo⁹, Knusel, Beat⁹, Xue, Allen⁹, Scott, Rob⁹, Wasserman, Scott M.⁹, Rocco, Michael¹⁰

المصدر: Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). Jun2014, Vol. 63 Issue 23, p2541-2548. 8p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *HYPERCHOLESTEREMIA, *STATINS (Cardiovascular agents), *PROPROTEIN convertases, *CHOLESTEROL, *IMMUNOGLOBULINS, *THERAPEUTIC use of monoclonal antibodies, *DRUG efficacy, *MEDICATION safety, *EZETIMIBE, *PLACEBOS, *RANDOMIZED controlled trials, *PATIENTS, *PHYSIOLOGY, *THERAPEUTICS

مستخلص: Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the efficacy and safety of subcutaneous evolocumab compared with oral ezetimibe in hypercholesterolemic patients who are unable to tolerate effective statin doses. Background: Statin intolerance, which is predominantly due to muscle-related side effects, is reported in up to 10% to 20% of patients. Evolocumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), demonstrated marked reductions in plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in a phase 2 study in statin-intolerant patients. Methods: The GAUSS-2 (Goal Achievement after Utilizing an Anti-PCSK9 Antibody in Statin Intolerant Subjects) trial was a 12-week, double-blind study of randomized patients (2:2:1:1) to evolocumab 140 mg every two weeks (Q2W) or evolocumab 420 mg once monthly (QM) both with daily oral placebo or subcutaneous placebo Q2W or QM both with daily oral ezetimibe 10 mg. Co-primary endpoints were percent change from baseline in LDL-C at the mean of weeks 10 and 12, and at week 12. Results: Three hundred seven patients (age 62 ± 10 years; LDL-C 193 ± 59 mg/dl) were randomized. Evolocumab reduced LDL-C from baseline by 53% to 56%, corresponding to treatment differences versus ezetimibe of 37% to 39% (p <0.001). Muscle adverse events occurred in 12% of evolocumab-treated patients and 23% of ezetimibe-treated patients. Treatment-emergent adverse events and laboratory abnormalities were comparable across treatment groups. Conclusions: Robust efficacy combined with favorable tolerability makes evolocumab a promising therapy for addressing the largely unmet clinical need in high-risk patients with elevated cholesterol who are statin intolerant. (Goal Achievement After Utilizing an Anti-PCSK9 Antibody in Statin Intolerant Subjects-2; NCT01763905) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

المؤلفون: Colquhoun, David M., Bunker, Stephen J., Clarke, David M., Glozier, Nick, Hare, David L., Hickie, Ian B., Tatoulis, James, Tofler, Geoffrey H., Thompson, David R., Wilson, Alison, Branagan, Maree G.

المصدر: Medical Journal of Australia; 5/20/2013, Vol. 198 Issue 9, p483-484, 2p

مصطلحات موضوعية: CORONARY disease, THERAPEUTICS, MENTAL depression, SELF-report inventories, DRUG therapy, CARDIOVASCULAR disease treatment, PATIENTS

مستخلص: The article discusses the screening, referral and treatment for depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). It states that the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NHFA) has provided certain guidelines for self-reported screening tools which include patient health questionnaire (PHQ-2 and PHQ-9) and the cardiac depression scale (CDS). It mentions that the treatment should include collaborative care, pharmacological therapy, and complementary and alternative therapies.

المؤلفون: Hamilton-Craig, Ian¹ ihamilton-craig@griffith.edu.au, Kostner, Karam², Colquhoun, David³, Woodhouse, Stan²

المصدر: Heart, Lung & Circulation. Oct2009, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p343-346. 4p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *STATINS (Cardiovascular agents), *EZETIMIBE, *AORTIC stenosis, *CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors, *PLACEBOS, *CANCER-related mortality, *PATIENTS, AORTIC valve surgery

مصطلحات جغرافية: EUROPE

مستخلص: SEAS (Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis) hypothesised that aggressive lipid lowering with simvastatin/ezetimibe reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and the need for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). The study enrolled from 173 centres in seven European countries 1873 elderly non-diabetics with mild to moderate AS (mean aortic-valve area 1.28±0.47cm2), who had no indication for lipid-lowering therapy. Patients were randomised to treatment with either simvastatin/ezetimibe 40/10mg daily or matching placebo after a four-week diet/placebo run-in period. Compared with placebo, LDL cholesterol was reduced by 61% (2.0mmol/l). There was no difference in the primary endpoint (a combination of AVR, CV death, non-fatal MI, congestive heart failure from AS progression, coronary revascularisation, hospitalised unstable angina and non-haemorrhagic stroke). Compared with placebo, CVD events were reduced by 4.4% from 20.1% to 15.7% in the simvastatin/ezetimibe group (p =0.02). Cancer incidence and cancer deaths were more frequent in the simvastatin/ezetimibe group (9.9% vs. 7.0%, p =0.03 and 4.1% vs. 2.5%, p =0.05, respectively). These differences were not related to any form of cancer and did not increase with increased duration of therapy. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]