ArticleExperimental and clinical cardiology2007
Beneficial effects of the addition of fenofibrate to statin therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome after percutaneous coronary interventions.
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Comparison of the Efficacy and AtorVastatin 20mg mOnotherapy Versus Combination Atorvastatin/Fenofibric Acid 10/135mg in the Mixed hyperlipiDemia Who Were Not at Lipid gOals With Atorvastatin 10mg Monotherapy.
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- Statins for acute coronary syndrome.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014 · on this mapPooled it
- Fenofibrate/simvastatin fixed-dose combination in the treatment of mixed dyslipidemia: safety, efficacy, and place in therapy.Vascular health and risk management · 2017Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo find out whether the addition of fenofibrate to statin monotherapy produced any synergistic or additive beneficial effects in reducing risk factors, especially plasma fibrinogen, in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) requiring percutaneous coronary interventions.
methodsA randomized, non-blinded, prospective study with parallel group design. One hundred two ACS patients who underwent angioplasty were randomly assigned to atorvastatin (20 mg/day, n=25), simvastatin (40 mg/day, n=27), atorvastatin-fenofibrate (10 mg/day-200 mg/day) combination (n=25) or simvastatin-fenofibrate (20 mg/day-200 mg/day) combination (n=25). The serum lipid profile and plasma fibrinogen were recorded before initiation of therapy and after three months of the respective treatments.
resultsAll patients already had desirable lipid levels as per the National Cholesterol Education Program - Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines. The addition of fenofibrate to statin monotherapy produced further benefits to the reduction in triglyceride and very low-density lipoprotein levels, and caused an increase in high-density lipoprotein levels. All the treatment groups showed a significant decrease in the plasma fibrinogen levels. Plasma fibrinogen did not correlate with study parameters such as age, body weight, hemo-dynamic characteristics and lipoprotein levels. Statin monotherapy as well as its combination with fenofibrate produced a significant decrease in the fibrinogen levels.
conclusionsThe addition of fenofibrate to statins seems to be beneficial in patients with ACS. Statins decreased plasma fibrinogen significantly, contrary to results from various reports, and the addition of fenofibrate further enhanced this reduction of the novel risk factor fibrinogen.
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