Efficacy and Safety of Triplet Therapy With
Interactive! Click on any of Efficacy and Safety of Triplet Therapy With Bempedoic Acid, Ezetimibe, TAP TO RETURN these bubbles to TO KIOSK MENU jump to each and Atorvastatin in Patients With Hypercholesterolemia section Diane E. MacDougall, MS1; John Rubino, MD2; Lulu Ren Sterling, PhD1; Jeffrey C. Hanselman, MS1; Stephen J. Nicholls, MD, PhD3 Results & Methods 1Esperion Therapeutics Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; 2PMG Research of Raleigh, Raleigh, NC; Results 3Monash Cardiovascular Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Conclusions INTRODUCTION METHODS • Patients with hypercholesterolemia often fail to achieve sufficient cholesterol lowering, despite the use of guideline- recommended lipid-lowering therapies1-3 STUDY DESIGN AND TREATMENT • Bempedoic acid is an oral, first-in-class ATP-citrate lyase inhibitor in development for treating hypercholesterolemia4,5 • Phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study – The active form of bempedoic acid (bempedoyl-CoA) inhibits ATP-citrate lyase, an enzyme upstream of • The study consisted of 2 phases (Figure 1): HMG-CoA reductase (the target of statins) in the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway – A 6-week screening/washout period during which patients – Bempedoic acid is a prodrug that is activated in the liver by very long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase 1 (ACSVL1) discontinued lipid-lowering drugs and nutritional supplements – A double-blind treatment period in which patients were – ACSVL1 expression is limited to the liver; therefore, bempedoic acid is not converted to bempedoyl-CoA in randomized 2:1 to treatment with triplet therapy (bempedoic acid skeletal muscle 180 mg + ezetimibe 10 mg + atorvastatin 20 mg) or placebo once • In phase 3 clinical trials, bempedoic acid significantly lowered low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) when daily for 6 weeks administered alone or as an add-on to background lipid-lowering therapy6-9 OBJECTIVE FIGURE 1.
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