Study of Alirocumab (REGN727/SAR236553) in Patients With Primary Hypercholesterolemia and Moderate, High, or Very High Cardiovascular (CV) Risk, Who Are Intolerant to Statins (ODYSSEY ALTERNATIVE)

Summary

This is a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, active-controlled, parallel-group, multi-national, multi-center study to compare alirocumab (REGN727/SAR236553) versus ezetimibe in participants with primary hypercholesterolemia and moderate, high, or very high CV risk, who are intolerant to statins. An atorvastatin arm is added to determine that the population selected in the study is a truly statin intolerant population by assessing skeletal muscle-related adverse events.

Timeline

Start

2012-09-30

Primary completion

2014-05-31

Completion

2017-05-31

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper Alirocumab reduced mean (standard error) LDL-C by 45.0% (2.2%) vs 14.6% (2.2%) with ezetimibe (mean difference 30.4% [3.1%], P < .0001). PMID 26687696 ↗

Publications

• Background Moriarty PM, Jacobson TA, Bruckert E, Thompson PD, Guyton JR, Baccara-Dinet MT, Gipe D. Efficacy and safety of alirocumab, a monoclonal antibody to PCSK9, in statin-intolerant patients: design and rationale of ODYSSEY ALTERNATIVE, a randomized phase 3 trial. J Clin Lipidol. 2014 Nov-Dec;8(6):554-561. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2014.09.007. Epub 2014 Sep 19.
• Results Moriarty PM, Thompson PD, Cannon CP, Guyton JR, Bergeron J, Zieve FJ, Bruckert E, Jacobson TA, Kopecky SL, Baccara-Dinet MT, Du Y, Pordy R, Gipe DA; ODYSSEY ALTERNATIVE Investigators. Efficacy and safety of alirocumab vs ezetimibe in statin-intolerant patients, with a statin rechallenge arm: The ODYSSEY ALTERNATIVE randomized trial. J Clin Lipidol. 2015 Nov-Dec;9(6):758-769. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2015.08.006. Epub 2015 Aug 29.
• Mahmood T, Minnier J, Ito MK, Li QH, Koren A, Kam IW, Fazio S, Shapiro MD. Discordant responses of plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and lipoprotein(a) to alirocumab: A pooled analysis from 10 ODYSSEY Phase 3 studies. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2021 Jul 23;28(8):816-822. doi: 10.1177/2047487320915803. Epub 2020 Apr 10.
• Moriarty PM, Thompson PD, Cannon CP, Guyton JR, Bergeron J, Zieve FJ, Bruckert E, Jacobson TA, Baccara-Dinet MT, Zhao J, Donahue S, Ali S, Manvelian G, Pordy R. Efficacy and safety of alirocumab in statin-intolerant patients over 3 years: open-label treatment period of the ODYSSEY ALTERNATIVE trial. J Clin Lipidol. 2020 Jan-Feb;14(1):88-97.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2020.01.001. Epub 2020 Jan 13.
• Leiter LA, Tinahones FJ, Karalis DG, Bujas-Bobanovic M, Letierce A, Mandel J, Samuel R, Jones PH. Alirocumab safety in people with and without diabetes mellitus: pooled data from 14 ODYSSEY trials. Diabet Med. 2018 Dec;35(12):1742-1751. doi: 10.1111/dme.13817. Epub 2018 Oct 9.
• Defesche JC, Stefanutti C, Langslet G, Hopkins PN, Seiz W, Baccara-Dinet MT, Hamon SC, Banerjee P, Kastelein JJP. Efficacy of alirocumab in 1191 patients with a wide spectrum of mutations in genes causative for familial hypercholesterolemia. J Clin Lipidol. 2017 Nov-Dec;11(6):1338-1346.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2017.08.016. Epub 2017 Sep 4.
• Ray KK, Ginsberg HN, Davidson MH, Pordy R, Bessac L, Minini P, Eckel RH, Cannon CP. Reductions in Atherogenic Lipids and Major Cardiovascular Events: A Pooled Analysis of 10 ODYSSEY Trials Comparing Alirocumab With Control. Circulation. 2016 Dec 13;134(24):1931-1943. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.024604. Epub 2016 Oct 24.

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