An Study to Evaluate Rosuvastatin in Children and Adolescents With Familial Hypercholesterolaemia

Summary

This study is being carried out to see if the study medication, rosuvastatin, is effective in treating familial hypercholesterolaemia in children and adolescents, and to determine the long term (over 2 years) safety, tolerability and efficacy of the study medication in these patients. This study will also measure levels of drug in the blood and see how well it is tolerated. This is known as pharmacokinetic (PK) analysis. At baseline only a small number of patients will participate in a single dose PK phase over 24 hours. In order to see if this medication works, a control group of healthy siblings will help the researchers to compare certain results.

Timeline

Start

2010-02

Primary completion

2013-02

Completion

2013-02

Publications

• Braamskamp MJAM, Langslet G, McCrindle BW, Cassiman D, Francis GA, Gagne C, Gaudet D, Morrison KM, Wiegman A, Turner T, Miller E, Kusters DM, Raichlen JS, Martin PD, Stein EA, Kastelein JJP, Hutten BA. Effect of Rosuvastatin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The CHARON Study (Hypercholesterolemia in Children and Adolescents Taking Rosuvastatin Open Label). Circulation. 2017 Jul 25;136(4):359-366. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.025158. Epub 2017 Jun 7.
• Kusters DM, Wiegman A, Kastelein JJ, Hutten BA. Carotid intima-media thickness in children with familial hypercholesterolemia. Circ Res. 2014 Jan 17;114(2):307-10. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.114.301430. Epub 2013 Nov 5.
• Tolani S, Pagler TA, Murphy AJ, Bochem AE, Abramowicz S, Welch C, Nagareddy PR, Holleran S, Hovingh GK, Kuivenhoven JA, Tall AR. Hypercholesterolemia and reduced HDL-C promote hematopoietic stem cell proliferation and monocytosis: studies in mice and FH children. Atherosclerosis. 2013 Jul;229(1):79-85. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.03.031. Epub 2013 Apr 19.

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