Bempedoic Acid and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Statin-Intolerant Patients.
Nissen SE, Lincoff AM, Brennan D, Ray KK, Mason D, Kastelein JJP, Thompson PD, Libby P, Cho L, Plutzky J, Bays HE, Moriarty PM, Menon V, Grobbee DE, Louie MJ, Chen CF, Li N, Bloedon L, Robinson P, Horner M, Sasiela WJ, McCluskey J, Davey D, Fajardo-Campos P, Petrovic P, Fedacko J, Zmuda W, Lukyanov Y, Nicholls SJ; CLEAR Outcomes Investigators.
Nissen SE, et al.
N Engl J Med. 2023 Apr 13;388(15):1353-1364. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2215024. Epub 2023 Mar 4.
N Engl J Med. 2023.
PMID: 36876740
Clinical Trial.
The incidence of a primary end-point event was significantly lower with bempedoic acid than with placebo (819 patients [11.7%] vs. 927 [13.3%]; hazard ratio, 0.87; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.79 to 0.96; P = 0.004), as were the incidences of a composite of death from c …
The incidence of a primary end-point event was significantly lower with bempedoic acid than with placebo (819 patients [11.7%] vs. 927 [13.3 …