Effect of rosuvastatin on repeat heart failure hospitalizations: The CORONA Trial (Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure)

Rogers, J. K. et al. (2014) Effect of rosuvastatin on repeat heart failure hospitalizations: The CORONA Trial (Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure). JACC: Heart Failure, 2(3), pp. 289-297. (doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2013.12.007)

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Abstract

Objectives: This study sought to examine the effect of statin therapy hospitalizations for heart failure (HFH) in patients in the CORONA (Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure) trial.<p></p> Background: HFH is an important, frequently recurrent event. Conventional time-to-first event analyses do not take account repeat events. We used a number of statistical approaches to examine the effect of treatment on first and repeat HFH in the CORONA trial.<p></p> Methods: In the CORONA trial, 5,011 patients ≥60 years of age with chronic New York Heart Association functional classes II to IV systolic heart failure resulting from ischemia were randomized to receive rosuvastatin or placebo. Poisson, Andersen-Gill, and negative binomial methods (NB) were used to analyze the effect of rosuvastatin on HFH, and the NB and a parametric joint frailty model (JF) were used to examine this effect while accounting for the competing risk of cardiovascular (CV) death. Rosuvastatin/placebo rate ratios were calculated, both unadjusted and adjusted.<p></p> Results: A total of 1,291 patients had 1 or more HFH (750 of these had a single HFH only), and there were a total of 2,408 HFHs. The hazard ratio for the conventional time-to-first event analysis for HFH was 0.91 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.82 to 1.02, p = 0.105). In contrast, the NB on repeat hospitalizations gave an unadjusted RR (RR) for HFH of 0.86 (95% CI: 0.75 to 0.99, p = 0.030), adjusted 0.82 (95% CI: 0.72 to 0.92, p = 0.001), and after including CV death as the last event, adjusted RR of 0.85 (95% CI: 0.77 to 0.94, p = 0.001). The JF gave an adjusted RR of 0.82 (95% CI: 0.73 to 0.92, p = 0.001). Similar results were found in analyses of all CV hospitalizations and all-cause hospitalizations.<p></p> Conclusions: When repeat events were included, rosuvastatin was shown to reduce the risk of HFH by approximately 15% to 20%, equating to approximately 76 fewer admissions per 1,000 patients treated over a median 33 months of follow-up. Including repeat events could increase the ability to detect treatment effects in heart failure trials.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Jhund, Professor Pardeep and McMurray, Professor John and Cleland, Professor John
Authors: Rogers, J. K., Jhund, P. S., Perez, A.-C., Böhm, M., Cleland, J. G., Gullestad, L., Kjekshus, J., van Veldhuisen, D. J., Wikstrand, J., Wedel, H., McMurray, J. J.V., and Pocock, S. J.
College/School:College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health
College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > Robertson Centre
Journal Name:JACC: Heart Failure
Publisher:Elsevier Inc.
ISSN:2213-1779
ISSN (Online):2213-1787

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