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Do Persons with Diabetes Benefit from Combination Statin and Fibrate Therapy?
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PMID:  22213157     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Combination fibrate-statin therapy favorably modifies the atherogenic, triglyceride-rich lipoprotein environment, common to insulin resistance, diabetes, and higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Five major fibrate randomized clinical trial (RCT) results (HHS, VA-HIT, BIP, FIELD, and ACCORD-Lipid) demonstrated four consistent features: 1) the highest CVD event rates occurred in the placebo subgroups possessing atherogenic "moderate" dyslipidemia (triglycerides, > 200 mg/dL, and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol [HDL-C], < 35-40 mg/dL); 2) with this subgroup having the greatest "hypothesis-generating" fibrate benefit (27% to 65% relative risk reduction, variable significance [P values ranging 0.057-0.005]); 3) those subgroups without moderate dyslipidemia had relatively lower CVD event rates; and 4) little or no benefit from fibrates. The ACCORD-Lipid results, specifically, demonstrated benefits against the background of statin therapy. Three independent meta-analyses combining the five RCTs, which provided a large sample of moderate dyslipidemia participants (i.e., 2401 on fibrates; 2270 on placebo), demonstrated a fibrate benefit with significant heterogeneity of effect across lipid subgroups (P = 0.0002). The fibrate benefit was observed in "low HDL-C only" patients, reducing CVD events by 17% (P < 0.001) or "hypertriglyceridemia-only" patients, reducing CVD events by 28% (P < 0.001), or "atherogenic (moderate) dyslipidemia" phenotype, reducing CVD events by 30% (P < 0.0001), compared with a nonsignificant 6% reduction (P = 0.13) in nonatherogenic dyslipidemia patients. Fibrate RCTs in patients with diabetes (FIELD and ACCORD-Lipid) also demonstrated significant microvascular (ie, retinopathy and nephropathy) outcome benefit possibly independent of lipid levels.
Authors:
Paul D Rosenblit
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-1-3
Journal Detail:
Title:  Current cardiology reports     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1534-3170     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-1-3     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100888969     Medline TA:  Curr Cardiol Rep     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Diabetes/Lipid Management & Research Center, 18821 Delaware Street, Suite 202, Huntington Beach, CA, 92648, USA, rosenblitpd@pol.net.
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