TY - JOUR
T1 - Telmisartan to prevent recurrent stroke and cardiovascular events
AU - Yusuf, Salim
AU - Diener, Hans-Christoph
AU - Sacco, Ralph L
AU - Cotton, Daniel
AU - Ounpuu, Stephanie
AU - Lawton, William A
AU - Palesch, Yuko
AU - Martin, Reneé H
AU - Albers, Gregory W
AU - Bath, Philip
AU - Bornstein, Natan
AU - Chan, Bernard P L
AU - Chen, Sien-Tsong
AU - Cunha, Luis
AU - Dahlöf, Björn
AU - De Keyser, Jacques
AU - Donnan, Geoffrey A
AU - Estol, Conrado
AU - Gorelick, Philip
AU - Gu, Vivian
AU - Hermansson, Karin
AU - Hilbrich, Lutz
AU - Kaste, Markku
AU - Lu, Chuanzhen
AU - Machnig, Thomas
AU - Pais, Prem
AU - Roberts, Robin
AU - Skvortsova, Veronika
AU - Teal, Philip
AU - Toni, Danilo
AU - VanderMaelen, Cam
AU - Voigt, Thor
AU - Weber, Michael
AU - Yoon, Byung-Woo
AU - PRoFESS Study Group
AU - Iversen, Helle Klingenberg
N1 - 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society
PY - 2008/9/18
Y1 - 2008/9/18
N2 - BACKGROUND: Prolonged lowering of blood pressure after a stroke reduces the risk of recurrent stroke. In addition, inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system in high-risk patients reduces the rate of subsequent cardiovascular events, including stroke. However, the effect of lowering of blood pressure with a renin-angiotensin system inhibitor soon after a stroke has not been clearly established. We evaluated the effects of therapy with an angiotensin-receptor blocker, telmisartan, initiated early after a stroke.METHODS: In a multicenter trial involving 20,332 patients who recently had an ischemic stroke, we randomly assigned 10,146 to receive telmisartan (80 mg daily) and 10,186 to receive placebo. The primary outcome was recurrent stroke. Secondary outcomes were major cardiovascular events (death from cardiovascular causes, recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, or new or worsening heart failure) and new-onset diabetes.RESULTS: The median interval from stroke to randomization was 15 days. During a mean follow-up of 2.5 years, the mean blood pressure was 3.8/2.0 mm Hg lower in the telmisartan group than in the placebo group. A total of 880 patients (8.7%) in the telmisartan group and 934 patients (9.2%) in the placebo group had a subsequent stroke (hazard ratio in the telmisartan group, 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.86 to 1.04; P=0.23). Major cardiovascular events occurred in 1367 patients (13.5%) in the telmisartan group and 1463 patients (14.4%) in the placebo group (hazard ratio, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.87 to 1.01; P=0.11). New-onset diabetes occurred in 1.7% of the telmisartan group and 2.1% of the placebo group (hazard ratio, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.65 to 1.04; P=0.10).CONCLUSIONS: Therapy with telmisartan initiated soon after an ischemic stroke and continued for 2.5 years did not significantly lower the rate of recurrent stroke, major cardiovascular events, or diabetes. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00153062.)
AB - BACKGROUND: Prolonged lowering of blood pressure after a stroke reduces the risk of recurrent stroke. In addition, inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system in high-risk patients reduces the rate of subsequent cardiovascular events, including stroke. However, the effect of lowering of blood pressure with a renin-angiotensin system inhibitor soon after a stroke has not been clearly established. We evaluated the effects of therapy with an angiotensin-receptor blocker, telmisartan, initiated early after a stroke.METHODS: In a multicenter trial involving 20,332 patients who recently had an ischemic stroke, we randomly assigned 10,146 to receive telmisartan (80 mg daily) and 10,186 to receive placebo. The primary outcome was recurrent stroke. Secondary outcomes were major cardiovascular events (death from cardiovascular causes, recurrent stroke, myocardial infarction, or new or worsening heart failure) and new-onset diabetes.RESULTS: The median interval from stroke to randomization was 15 days. During a mean follow-up of 2.5 years, the mean blood pressure was 3.8/2.0 mm Hg lower in the telmisartan group than in the placebo group. A total of 880 patients (8.7%) in the telmisartan group and 934 patients (9.2%) in the placebo group had a subsequent stroke (hazard ratio in the telmisartan group, 0.95; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.86 to 1.04; P=0.23). Major cardiovascular events occurred in 1367 patients (13.5%) in the telmisartan group and 1463 patients (14.4%) in the placebo group (hazard ratio, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.87 to 1.01; P=0.11). New-onset diabetes occurred in 1.7% of the telmisartan group and 2.1% of the placebo group (hazard ratio, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.65 to 1.04; P=0.10).CONCLUSIONS: Therapy with telmisartan initiated soon after an ischemic stroke and continued for 2.5 years did not significantly lower the rate of recurrent stroke, major cardiovascular events, or diabetes. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00153062.)
KW - Aged
KW - Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
KW - Benzimidazoles
KW - Benzoates
KW - Blood Pressure
KW - Cardiovascular Diseases
KW - Creatinine
KW - Diabetes Mellitus
KW - Female
KW - Follow-Up Studies
KW - Heart Failure
KW - Humans
KW - Kaplan-Meier Estimate
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Myocardial Infarction
KW - Potassium
KW - Secondary Prevention
KW - Stroke
KW - Treatment Failure
U2 - 10.1056/NEJMoa0804593
DO - 10.1056/NEJMoa0804593
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 18753639
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 359
SP - 1225
EP - 1237
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 12
ER -