Crestor Versus Placebo in Subjects With Heart Failure

Summary

The purpose of the study is to investigate if rosuvastatin, added on top of all other medicines prescribed to subjects with symptomatic systolic heart failure, reduces the combined endpoint of cardiovascular death or non-fatal myocardial infarction or non-fatal stroke (time to first event)

Timeline

Start

2003-09

Primary completion

2007-07

Completion

2007-07

Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper Rosuvastatin did not reduce the primary outcome PMID 20501489 ↗

Publications

• Askevold ET, Gullestad L, Nymo S, Kjekshus J, Yndestad A, Latini R, Cleland JG, McMurray JJ, Aukrust P, Ueland T. Secreted Frizzled Related Protein 3 in Chronic Heart Failure: Analysis from the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA). PLoS One. 2015 Aug 19;10(8):e0133970. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133970. eCollection 2015.
• Perez AC, Jhund PS, Stott DJ, Gullestad L, Cleland JG, van Veldhuisen DJ, Wikstrand J, Kjekshus J, McMurray JJ. Thyroid-stimulating hormone and clinical outcomes: the CORONA trial (controlled rosuvastatin multinational study in heart failure). JACC Heart Fail. 2014 Feb;2(1):35-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2013.07.008. Epub 2014 Jan 25.
• Gravning J, Askevold ET, Nymo SH, Ueland T, Wikstrand J, McMurray JJ, Aukrust P, Gullestad L, Kjekshus J; CORONA Study Group. Prognostic effect of high-sensitive troponin T assessment in elderly patients with chronic heart failure: results from the CORONA trial. Circ Heart Fail. 2014 Jan;7(1):96-103. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.113.000450. Epub 2013 Nov 27.
• Perez AC, Jhund P, Preiss D, Kjekshus J, McMurray JJ. Effect of rosuvastatin on fatigue in patients with heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013 Mar 12;61(10):1121-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.12.004. No abstract available.
• van der Velde AR, Gullestad L, Ueland T, Aukrust P, Guo Y, Adourian A, Muntendam P, van Veldhuisen DJ, de Boer RA. Prognostic value of changes in galectin-3 levels over time in patients with heart failure: data from CORONA and COACH. Circ Heart Fail. 2013 Mar;6(2):219-26. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.000129. Epub 2013 Feb 8.
• Askevold ET, Nymo S, Ueland T, Gravning J, Wergeland R, Kjekshus J, Yndestad A, Cleland JG, McMurray JJ, Aukrust P, Gullestad L. Soluble glycoprotein 130 predicts fatal outcomes in chronic heart failure: analysis from the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA). Circ Heart Fail. 2013 Jan;6(1):91-8. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.972653. Epub 2012 Dec 10.
• Gullestad L, Ueland T, Kjekshus J, Nymo SH, Hulthe J, Muntendam P, McMurray JJ, Wikstrand J, Aukrust P. The predictive value of galectin-3 for mortality and cardiovascular events in the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA). Am Heart J. 2012 Dec;164(6):878-83. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.08.021. Epub 2012 Oct 29.
• Latini R, Gullestad L, Masson S, Nymo SH, Ueland T, Cuccovillo I, Vardal M, Bottazzi B, Mantovani A, Lucci D, Masuda N, Sudo Y, Wikstrand J, Tognoni G, Aukrust P, Tavazzi L; Investigators of the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA) and GISSI-Heart Failure (GISSI-HF) trials. Pentraxin-3 in chronic heart failure: the CORONA and GISSI-HF trials. Eur J Heart Fail. 2012 Sep;14(9):992-9. doi: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfs092. Epub 2012 Jun 27.
• Stein EA, Vidt DG, Shepherd J, Cain VA, Anzalone D, Cressman MD. Renal safety of intensive cholesterol-lowering treatment with rosuvastatin: a retrospective analysis of renal adverse events among 40,600 participants in the rosuvastatin clinical development program. Atherosclerosis. 2012 Apr;221(2):471-7. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.12.011. Epub 2012 Jan 3.
• Ueland T, Dahl CP, Kjekshus J, Hulthe J, Bohm M, Mach F, Goudev A, Lindberg M, Wikstrand J, Aukrust P, Gullestad L. Osteoprotegerin predicts progression of chronic heart failure: results from CORONA. Circ Heart Fail. 2011 Mar;4(2):145-52. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.110.957332. Epub 2011 Jan 7.
• McMurray JJ, Dunselman P, Wedel H, Cleland JG, Lindberg M, Hjalmarson A, Kjekshus J, Waagstein F, Apetrei E, Barrios V, Bohm M, Kamensky G, Komajda M, Mareev V, Wikstrand J; CORONA Study Group. Coenzyme Q10, rosuvastatin, and clinical outcomes in heart failure: a pre-specified substudy of CORONA (controlled rosuvastatin multinational study in heart failure). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Oct 5;56(15):1196-204. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.02.075.
• Inglis SC, McMurray JJ, Bohm M, Schaufelberger M, van Veldhuisen DJ, Lindberg M, Dunselman P, Hjalmarson A, Kjekshus J, Waagstein F, Wedel H, Wikstrand J; CORONA Study Group. Intermittent claudication as a predictor of outcome in patients with ischaemic systolic heart failure: analysis of the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure trial (CORONA). Eur J Heart Fail. 2010 Jul;12(7):698-705. doi: 10.1093/eurjhf/hfq070. Epub 2010 May 25.
• McMurray JJ, Kjekshus J, Gullestad L, Dunselman P, Hjalmarson A, Wedel H, Lindberg M, Waagstein F, Grande P, Hradec J, Kamensky G, Korewicki J, Kuusi T, Mach F, Ranjith N, Wikstrand J; CORONA Study Group. Effects of statin therapy according to plasma high-sensitivity C-reactive protein concentration in the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA): a retrospective analysis. Circulation. 2009 Dec 1;120(22):2188-96. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.849117. Epub 2009 Nov 16.
• Kjekshus J, Apetrei E, Barrios V, Bohm M, Cleland JG, Cornel JH, Dunselman P, Fonseca C, Goudev A, Grande P, Gullestad L, Hjalmarson A, Hradec J, Janosi A, Kamensky G, Komajda M, Korewicki J, Kuusi T, Mach F, Mareev V, McMurray JJ, Ranjith N, Schaufelberger M, Vanhaecke J, van Veldhuisen DJ, Waagstein F, Wedel H, Wikstrand J; CORONA Group. Rosuvastatin in older patients with systolic heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 29;357(22):2248-61. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0706201. Epub 2007 Nov 5.

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