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POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE
Volume 122, Issue 3, Pages 16-27Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2010.05.2138
Keywords
cardiovascular outcomes; CV death; DPP-4 inhibitors; myocardial infarction; saxagliptin; stroke; type 2 diabetes mellitus
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Funding
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Duke Health System
- Medtronic Japan
- Merck and Company
- National Institutes of Health
- Pfizer
- Regado Biosciences
- Adolor Corp
- Alexion
- Amgen Inc.
- Amylin Inc.
- Argolyn
- AstraZeneca
- Bayer HealthCare
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Brigham & Women's Hospital
- CardioKinetix Inc.
- Cierra
- Cordis
- Daiichi Sankyo
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Edwards Lifesciences
- Eli Lilly
- Elsevier (AHJ)
- Forest Laboratories
- Genentech
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Guidant Corporation
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals
- Johnson Johnson
- KCI Medical
- Luitpold Pharmaceutical
- Medtronic Inc.
- Momenta Pharmaceutical
- Novartis
- Portola Pharmaceutical
- Proctor and Gamble
- Pozen
- sanofi-aventis
- Schering-Plough Corp.
- Scios Inc.
- Medicines Company
- WebMD
- William Beaumont Hospital
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Objective: The objective was to assess the relative risk (RR) for cardiovascular (CV) events across all 8 randomized phase 2/3 trials evaluating saxagliptin in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: Cardiovascular events (death, myocardial infarction [MI], stroke, revascularization procedures, and cardiac ischemia) were reported by investigators through standard adverse event reporting procedures and were systematically identified. Post hoc blinded adjudication of all deaths, MIs, and strokes was performed using prespecified endpoint definitions by an independent clinical events committee (CEC). Results: A total of 4607 randomized and treated patients (n = 3356 treated with saxagliptin [2.5-100 mg/d]; n = 1251, comparator [n = 656, placebo; n = 328, metformin; n = 267, uptitrated glyburide]) were included. The median ages were 54 years (saxagliptin) and 55 years (comparator) (interquartile range, 47-61 each); 51% were female, 73% were white, 52% were hypertensive, 44% had hypercholesterolemia, 39% had a smoking history, 20% had a first-degree family member with premature coronary heart disease, and 12% had prior CV disease. Cardiovascular events were experienced by 61 patients (38 [1.1%], saxagliptin; 23 [1.8%], comparator), and CV death/MI/stroke events were reported by investigators in 41 patients: 23 (0.7%), saxagliptin; 18 (1.4%), comparator (relative risk, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.44 [0.24-0.82]). The CEC reviewed 147 patients with potential CV events and identified a total of 40 patients with CV death/MI/stroke: 22 (0.7%), saxagliptin; 18 (1.4%), comparator (RR, 0.43 [0.23-0.80]). Component proportions for CV death, MI, and stroke were (saxagliptin vs comparator): 7 (0.2%) vs 10 (0.8%), 8 (0.2%) vs 8 (0.6%), and 11 (0.3%) vs 5 (0.4%), respectively. Conclusion: No increased risk of CV death/MI/stroke was observed in patients randomly assigned saxagliptin across a broad drug development program. Although this systematic overview has inherent and important limitations, the data support a potential reduction in CV events with saxagliptin. The hypothesis of CV protection with saxagliptin will be tested prospectively in a large randomized clinical outcome trial evaluating saxagliptin compared with standard of care in patients with type 2 diabetes at increased risk for CV events.
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