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在患有动脉样硬化大动脉斑块高风险的患者中,阿托瓦斯塔丁,埃迪德罗纳酸或两者:随机对照试验
Tetsuya Kawahara1, Masako Nishikawa, Chie Kawahara
1Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata Rosai Hospital, 1-7-12 Touncho, Joetsu, Niigata 942-8502, Japan. k-tetsuy@niirou.jp
Circulation
|May 10, 2013
概括
与阿托瓦斯塔丁和埃迪龙酸联合治疗有效地减少了大动脉动脉样硬化斑块. 这种组合疗法显著减少了腹部大动脉斑块,比单独治疗任何一种药物都要多.
科学领域:
- 心血管医学 心血管医学
- 药理学 药理学是指药理学的学科.
- 医疗成像医学成像
背景情况:
- 类药物在减少腹腔大动脉动脉样硬化斑块方面表现出有限的有效性.
- 双酸盐正在成为诱导这些斑块回归的潜在药物.
研究的目的:
- 评估阿托瓦斯塔丁和埃迪布罗纳酸联合治疗在胸部和腹部大动脉中减少动脉样硬化斑块的疗效.
- 为了比较组合疗法的效果与阿托瓦斯塔丁或埃德罗纳特单一疗法的效果.
主要方法:
- 一个前性,随机的,开放的标签试验,包括108名高胆固醇血症参与者.
- 治疗组包括每天服用阿托瓦斯塔丁,每天服用埃迪德罗纳特或两者兼而有之.
- 磁共振成像评估了12个月后最大的血管壁厚度变化.
主要成果:
- 组合治疗和阿托瓦斯塔丁同样降低了胸前大动脉斑块厚度 (13.8%和12.3%).
- 单一治疗以提德龙酸并没有显著改变胸前大动脉斑块厚度 (2.2%).
- 与阿托瓦斯塔丁 (-0.9%) 和埃迪德罗纳特 (5.5%) 相比,组合疗法显著降低了腹部大动脉斑块厚度 (-11.4%).
结论:
- 阿托瓦斯塔丁与埃迪夫罗纳特的联合治疗显著减少了胸部和腹部大动脉中的斑块.
- 阿托瓦斯塔丁单一治疗主要影响胸前大动脉斑块,而埃迪德罗纳特单一治疗主要影响腹部大动脉斑块.
- 与单一治疗相比,组合疗法在减少腹腔大动脉动脉样硬化斑块方面表现出更高的有效性.
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