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Arterial Disease Multifactorial Intervention Trial (ADMIT)

For Condition: Arterial Occlusive Diseases,Cardiovascular Diseases,Heart Diseases,Vascular Diseases,Diabetes Mellitus
Status: Completed
Sponsor(s): National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) ,
Synopsis: To evaluate, in asymptomatic and symptomatic participants with peripheral arterial disease, the feasibility of recruitment and adherence, efficacy and safety of HDL-C raising along with effective control of LDL-C levels, antioxidant therapy, antithrombotic therapy, and their combinations.
Details: BACKGROUND: Multiple mechanisms are involved in the deposition of LDL-C into the arterial wall, and the prevention of such deposition as well as the removal of the LDL-particles. Further, there remain questions regarding what causes an existing plaque that has been stable for a long period of time to become occlusive or ulcerating and what may prevent it from doing so. Prevention and treatment are almost certain to become multifaceted and more complex when using several complementary interventions or preventive measures concomitantly. Multifactorial prevention and treatment may be particularly useful in people with peripheral arterial disease. PAD as manifested by intermittent claudication affects about 0.5 to 1.0 percent of individuals above age 35, with a twofold predominance in men. There is a strikingly increased incidence with age in both sexes, particularly in those above age 50. Mortality in patients with intermittent claudication has been shown to be six times higher than in other people of similar age and gender. The excess in mortality is primarily due to a ninefold increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths. Those who have asymptomatic but measurable PAD (two to two-and-a-half times as many as have intermittent claudication), have relative risks of about 3 and 4 for total and CVD mortality, respectively. Therefore, interventions that prevent the development or progression of atherosclerotic disease or reduce arterial thrombosis should reduce mortality and morbidity due to myocardial infarction and stroke while favorably affecting the morbidity directly associated with PAD. The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) has included peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in its guidelines as a risk factor in the Classification and Decision for Treatment Algorithm. This means that patients who have PVD and elevated LDL-C and one other risk factor such as male gender, family history, cigarette smoking, or hypertension, should have appropriate dietary intervention followed by drug therapy as needed. Even with the guidelines in place since the end of 1987, a survey of PVD patients referred to a major medical center clinic found that very few patients were on lipid lowering therapy, either diet or drug. The reason for the primary care community not modifying lipids in these high risk patients may be related to lack of studies demonstrating benefit of lipid modification in those who have PVD. It is anticipated that many patients with PAD will require treatment for elevated LDL-C. It is not as clear whether interventions aimed at raising HDL-C will result in a slowing of progression of atherosclerosis in this population. Platelets have been shown to have a key role in the development of occlusive atherosclerosis and thrombosis related to coronary heart disease. Inhibition of platelet function has been postulated to slow progression of atherosclerosis; specifically, aspirin has been demonstrated to reduce lipoprotein deposition in the arterial wall of nonhuman primates. This deposition is even further reduced by the addition of a lipid lowering regimen to the antiplatelet regimen. It remains unclear whether mini-dose, less intense anticoagulation is the most appropriate antithrombotic therapy in people with PAD who are also receiving lipid modifying agents. DESIGN NARRATIVE: Patients were randomized to a control arm or to one of three treatment arms, including a lipid modification arm, an antioxidant arm, and an antithrombotic arm. Patients in the lipid modification arm were randomized to placebo or treated with nicotinic acid to increase HDL while lowering LDL levels equally with the hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitor pravastatin as needed in the intervention and control groups. Patients in the antioxidant arm were assigned to daily doses of 24 mg. of beta-carotene, 800 IU of vitamin E, and 1.0 g of vitamin C or to placebo. Patients in the antithrombotic arm received 2 mg/day of active or placebo warfarin taken daily until the fifth follow-up visit. Patients were followed every six weeks after entry for one year of follow-up. The primary endpoint of the study was the efficacy and safety of HDL-C raising along with effective control of LDL-C levels, antioxidant therapy, antithrombotic therapy, and their combinations. The secondary endpoints were to determine the efficacy of the HDL-C raising arm to achieve an increase in HDL-C in the treatment group while also obtaining equivalent reductions in LDL-C in the treatment and control groups, to assess the dose-response of niacin on HDL-C raising, to determine if the combination of low-dose warfarin plus aspirin versus aspirin alone had the expected impact on the hemostatic system, to determine if combination antioxidant therapy (vitamins E and C and beta carotene) led to changes in biomarkers for antioxidants, and to determine the interaction of the lipid altering strategy with antioxidants for effects on biomarkers for antioxidants. Screening began August 1, 1993, randomization began December 1, 1993 and ended December 31, 1994 with a total of 468 patients enrolled. Support for the trial ended in September 1995. Data analysis continues through March 31, 1999 under contract N01HC35124.
Eligibility:
Study Type:
  Interventional, Treatment, Randomized
Minimum Age/Maximum Age: 18 Years/75 Years
Genders: Both
Protocol Entry Criteria: Men and women with symptomatic or asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease.
Total Enrollment: 

Location and Contact Information:

Overall Study Official:
KathrynDavis,  ,  Statistics and Epidemiology Research Corporation

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis,  Minnesota, 
United States
 

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Newark,  New Jersey, 
United States
 

Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Winston Salem,  North Carolina, 
United States
 

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill,  North Carolina, 
United States
 

University of Tennessee
Memphis,  Tennessee, 
United States
 

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston,  Texas, 
United States
 


Additional Information:
Study ID Numbers:
  82; 
Study Start Date: September 1992
Record last reviewed: January 2003
Additional information available at: clinicaltrials.gov
Clinicaltrials.gov Reference link: NCT00000539

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