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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Yet enrollment of ethnic minorities in NIH clinical trials and for trials studying approved devices and drugs remains low. There are several strategies that will help increase diversity in CVD trials. Many high school and college students are moving away from the sciences. We have to change how we are practicing.

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Triglyceride-lowering trial neutral for cardiovascular event reduction

Medical Xpress

Levels of triglycerides are routinely measured as part of a preventive cardiology work-up and lowering triglycerides with several classes of drugs is common medical practice.

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Grand Rounds September 16, 2022: Using Nationwide Registries to Conduct Pragmatic Randomized Trials: The DANFLU Program (Tor Biering-Sørensen, MD, PhD, MPH)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Professor in Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials. Head of Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials. Department of Cardiology. DANFLU-1, Pragmatic Clinical Trials. The DECODE trial used registry data to identify patients with chronic kidney disease.

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Cardiovascular benefits of lipid-lowering drugs apply across ethnicities and regions, study finds

Medical Xpress

Minority ethnicities and regions derive at least as much cardiovascular benefit from lipid-lowering therapies as majority groups despite being underrepresented in clinical trials, according to a study published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

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AGEPHA Pharma’s LODOCO gets US FDA approval for cardiovascular disease

Pharmaceutical Technology

AGEPHA Pharma has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LODOCO (colchicine, 0.5 The regulatory approval was based on the findings obtained from a double-blind, multinational, placebo-controlled, randomised clinical trial conducted in 5,522 chronic coronary disease patients.

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Grand Rounds June 2, 2023: PROACT Xa and The Wizard of Oz: Behind the Curtain of a Pragmatic Decentralized Clinical Trial (John Alexander, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The trial was designed to randomize 1,000 patients who had an On-X aortic valve replacement at least 3 months prior to randomization with either a standard dose of Apixaban (5mg) or continued warfarin (the standard of care). The drugs were administered open label and all patients were given a low dose of aspirin.

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UK trial will test new mAb treatment in heart attack patients

Drug Discovery World

A potential new drug to improve the long-term outcomes for heart attack patients will be trialled in the UK under a new agreement. . The Birmingham trial will be run by the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

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