Investigation of Simvastatin in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Summary

To determine whether simvastatin at a dose of 80mg can reduce the rate of whole brain atrophy, as measured by MRI, over a 2-year time-period when compared to placebo.

Timeline

Start

2008-01

Primary completion

2011-11

Completion

2011-11

Publications

• Results Chan D, Binks S, Nicholas JM, Frost C, Cardoso MJ, Ourselin S, Wilkie D, Nicholas R, Chataway J. Effect of high-dose simvastatin on cognitive, neuropsychiatric, and health-related quality-of-life measures in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: secondary analyses from the MS-STAT randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 2017 Aug;16(8):591-600. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(17)30113-8. Epub 2017 Jun 7.
• Results Chataway J, Schuerer N, Alsanousi A, Chan D, MacManus D, Hunter K, Anderson V, Bangham CR, Clegg S, Nielsen C, Fox NC, Wilkie D, Nicholas JM, Calder VL, Greenwood J, Frost C, Nicholas R. Effect of high-dose simvastatin on brain atrophy and disability in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS-STAT): a randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial. Lancet. 2014 Jun 28;383(9936):2213-21. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62242-4. Epub 2014 Mar 19.
• Williams TE, Holdsworth KP, Nicholas JM, Eshaghi A, Katsanouli T, Wellington H, Heslegrave A, Zetterberg H, Frost C, Chataway J. Assessing Neurofilaments as Biomarkers of Neuroprotection in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis: From the MS-STAT Randomized Controlled Trial. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2022 Jan 14;9(2):e1130. doi: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000001130. Print 2022 Mar.

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