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- Title
Potential Cardiovascular Events Avoided with Bempedoic Acid Plus Ezetimibe Fixed-Dose Combination Compared with Ezetimibe Alone in Patients with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Taking Maximally Tolerated Statins.
- Authors
McQueen, R. Brett; Baum, Seth J.; Louie, Michael J.; Sasiela, William J.; Bilitou, Aikaterini; Shah, Hemal; Nash, Beth; Gillard, Kristin K.; Ray, Kausik K.
- Abstract
Background: Patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease who require additional low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering despite maximally tolerated statins have a significant unmet medical need and are at increased risk of future cardiovascular events and a reduced quality of life. Objective: We aimed to estimate the percentage of cardiovascular events avoided following treatment with a fixed-dose combination of bempedoic acid plus ezetimibe (BA+EZE FDC) versus ezetimibe (EZE) in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease receiving maximally tolerated statins across a range of baseline LDL-C levels. Methods: A Markov cohort simulation model estimated major adverse cardiovascular events avoided over a lifetime horizon among patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and baseline LDL-C levels from 80 to >200 mg/dL. BA+EZE FDC was compared with EZE based on mean percent LDL-C reductions versus placebo reported in a phase III trial. Health outcomes for the average patient were extrapolated to a US population of 100,000 persons using evidence on contemporary LDL-C levels from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Results: Among patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease not at the LDL-C goal with maximally tolerated statins, the addition of BA+EZE FDC compared with the addition of EZE was predicted to provide incremental absolute reductions in major adverse cardiovascular events dependent on baseline LDL-C levels at the population level. For those with baseline LDL-C of 101–110 mg/dL (n = 15,237), there were 4.9% (744) fewer events predicted, while for patients with baseline LDL-C of > 200 mg/dL (n = 1689), 10.9% (184) fewer events were predicted through the addition of BA+EZE FDC versus EZE. Conclusions: Further LDL-C reductions through the addition of BA+EZE FDC to maximally tolerated statins are predicted to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events compared with the addition of EZE. Benefits are potentially greater among those with higher starting LDL-C.
- Subjects
CARDIOVASCULAR disease prevention; STATINS (Cardiovascular agents); ANTILIPEMIC agents; COMBINATION drug therapy; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; LDL cholesterol; EZETIMIBE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; TREATMENT effectiveness; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL models
- Publication
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
1175-3277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40256-022-00552-7