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A Study of AMR101 to Evaluate Its Ability to Reduce Cardiovascular Events in High-Risk Patients With Hypertriglyceridemia and on Statin

NCT01492361 ↗

Phase 3 Completed 8179 enrolled Amarin Pharma Inc.
RandomizedParallel-groupTriple-blindPrevention

Summary

AMR101 (icosapent ethyl \[ethyl-EPA\]) is a highly purified ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) developed by Amarin Pharma Inc. for the treatment of cardiovascular disease in statin-treated patients with hypertriglyceridemia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether this drug, combined with a statin therapy, will be superior to the statin therapy alone, when used as a prevention in reducing long-term cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with mixed dyslipidemia.

Timeline

Start
2011-11
Primary completion
2018-05
Completion
2018-05

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (superiority test); AMR101 vs Placebo; p = 0.00000001; Hazard Ratio (HR) 0.75 (95% CI 0.68 to 0.83) NCT01492361 ↗

paper A primary end-point event occurred in 17.2% of the patients in the icosapent ethyl group, as compared with 22.0% of the patients in the placebo group PMID 30415628 ↗

release “REDUCE-IT met its primary endpoint demonstrating an approximately 25% relative risk reduction, to a high degree of statistical significance (p<0.001), in major adverse CV events” hlstherapeutics.com ↗

release “In November 2018, groundbreaking primary results of the REDUCE-IT study were presented and published showing that Vascepa achieved the primary endpoint” hlstherapeutics.com ↗

Publications

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject icosapent ethyl Small molecule 2 g —