Rationale and Design of the Carotid Plaque in Human for All Evaluations With Aggressive Rosuvastatin Therapy (CHALLENGER Trial) Evaluation by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
| Autor: | Chun Yuan, Takao Urabe, Hajime Arai, Tadayuki Maehara, Hidenori Ohishi, Munetaka Yamamoto, Fuki Ikeda, Kazuhiro Sase, Nobutaka Hattori, Kensaku Yoshida, Michimasa Suzuki, Hiroyuki Daida, Ryuzo Kawamori, Katsumi Miyauchi, Thomas S. Hatsukami, Norihide Takaya, Takahisa Hirose |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test Cholesterol business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Clinical trial chemistry.chemical_compound Rosuvastatin Calcium Stenosis chemistry Internal medicine Angiography medicine Cardiology lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) Rosuvastatin Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business medicine.drug Lipoprotein |
| Zdroj: | Circulation Journal. 73:111-115 |
| ISSN: | 1347-4820 1346-9843 |
| DOI: | 10.1253/circj.cj-08-0135 |
| Popis: | Background Intensive lipid-lowering therapy with statins reduces levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol (C) and improves plaque volume and composition in patients with cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, rosuvastatin ameliorated carotid stenosis in the ASTEROID study, and altered the composition of plaques in a predominantly Caucasian study population in the ORION study. However, it is not known whether statin therapy achieves similar quantitative improvement in carotid artery plaque in other ethnic groups. Methods and Results Fifty patients with hypercholesterolemia (LDL-C ≥120 mg/dl) and a maximum carotid intima-media thickness ≥1.8 mm will be enrolled and treated with rosuvastatin at a dose of 5 mg/day for 96 weeks. The primary endpoints will be the percent change of carotid plaque volume and the change in plaque composition after 96 weeks of treatment, as evaluated by magnetic resonance imaging. Conclusions The CHALLENGER study will provide a noninvasive assessment of the changes in carotid plaque volume and composition achieved by reduction of LDL levels in Japanese patients with carotid stenosis on long-term rosuvastatin therapy. (Circ J 2009; 73: 111 - 115) |
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