Efficacy and Safety of Adding Clopidogrel to Aspirin or Use of Metoprolol in Myocardial Infarction

Summary

COMMIT/CCS2 is a large randomised trial of the effects of clopidogrel plus Aspirin versus Aspirin alone in acute heart disease. Patients presenting within 24 hours of the onset of suspected acute MI were potentially eligible provided they were thought to have ST elevation or other ischaemic ECG abnormality with no clear indication for, or contraindication to, trial treatment. All patients were to be given 162 mg ASA daily and, in addition, 75 mg clopidogrel daily or matching placebo for 4 weeks or until prior discharge or death. (Patients were also randomised separately in a 2 X 2 factorial design between metoprolol versus placebo.) The two main study endpoints are death and the composite outcome of death, non-fatal reinfarction or stroke during the scheduled treatment period in hospital.

Timeline

Start

1999-07

Primary completion

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Completion

2005-02

Publications

• Results Chen ZM, Pan HC, Chen YP, Peto R, Collins R, Jiang LX, Xie JX, Liu LS; COMMIT (ClOpidogrel and Metoprolol in Myocardial Infarction Trial) collaborative group. Early intravenous then oral metoprolol in 45,852 patients with acute myocardial infarction: randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2005 Nov 5;366(9497):1622-32. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67661-1.
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• Steingrimsson JA, Hanley DF, Rosenblum M. Improving precision by adjusting for prognostic baseline variables in randomized trials with binary outcomes, without regression model assumptions. Contemp Clin Trials. 2017 Mar;54:18-24. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2016.12.026. Epub 2017 Jan 4.
• Chen ZM, Jiang LX, Chen YP, Xie JX, Pan HC, Peto R, Collins R, Liu LS; COMMIT (ClOpidogrel and Metoprolol in Myocardial Infarction Trial) collaborative group. Addition of clopidogrel to aspirin in 45,852 patients with acute myocardial infarction: randomised placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2005 Nov 5;366(9497):1607-21. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67660-X.

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