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Rationale and design of the Cardiovascular Inflammation Reduction Trial: A test of the inflammatory hypothesis of atherothrombosis
Background: Inflammation plays a fundamental role in atherothrombosis. Yet, whether direct inhibition of inflammation will reduce the occurrence of adverse cardiovascular outcomes is not known.Design: The Cardiovascular Inflammation Reduction Trial (CIRT) (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01594333) will randomly allocate 7,000 patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI) and either type 2 diabetes or the metabolic syndrome to low-dose methotrexate (target dose 15-20 mg/wk) or placebo over an average follow-up period of 3 to 5 years. Low-dose methotrexate is a commonly used anti-inflammatory regimen for the treatment of rheumatoid a...
Source: American Heart Journal - May 6, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Brendan M. Everett, Aruna D. Pradhan, Daniel H. Solomon, Nina Paynter, Jean MacFadyen, Elaine Zaharris, Milan Gupta, Michael Clearfield, Peter Libby, Ahmed A.K. Hasan, Robert J. Glynn, Paul M. Ridker Tags: Trial Design Source Type: research
