Clinical trial NCT02889549: Effects of Different Doses of Ticagrelor on Platelet Aggregation and Endothelial Function in Diabetic Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease
Official title: Effects of Different Doses of Ticagrelor and Standard-dose Clopidogrel on Platelet Aggregation and Endothelial Function in Diabetic Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE2
PHASE3
Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
Lead sponsor: First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-09-05
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Ticagrelor is an oral, reversibly-binding, direct-acting P2Y12 receptor antagonist used clinically for the prevention of atherothrombotic events in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Guideline recommendations on the use of dual antiplatelet therapy have been formulated that ticagrelor 90 mg twice daily plus aspirin in preference to clopidogrel 75mg daily plus aspirin for ACS patients. However, few East Asian patients have been included in these trials to assess the use of these drugs. In addition, a growing body of data supported that East Asian might have different adverse event profiles (thrombophilia and bleeding) and "therapeutic window" compared with white subjects. But it is still not clear whether a low dose of ticagrelor is superior to clopidogrel in diabetic patients with stable coronary disease.

Recent studies found that antiplatelet drugs might have anti-inflammatory effects and protect endothelial function. ACS patients treated by ticagrelor had a significantly higher increase in levels of circulating progenitor cells compared to those treated by clopidogrel, suggesting a benefit on endothelial regeneration that may participate in the pleiotropic property of the drug. This may prompt the regression of blood vessels and the endothelium stability. But it is not very clear that the effect of low-dose ticagrelor on vascular endothelial function in diabetic patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Therefore, the investigators performed this randomized, single-blind clinical trial to observe the effects of different doses of ticagrelor and standard-dose clopidogrel on platelet aggregation and endothelial function in diabetic patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Detailed description: Ticagrelor is an oral, reversibly-binding, direct-acting P2Y12 receptor antagonist used clinically for the prevention of atherothrombotic events in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Guideline recommendations on the use of dual antiplatelet therapy have been formulated that ticagrelor 90 mg twice daily plus aspirin in preference to clopidogrel 75mg daily plus aspirin for ACS patients. However, few East Asian patients have been included in these trials to assess the use of these drugs. In addition, a growing body of data supported that East Asian might have different adverse event profiles (thrombophilia and bleeding) and "therapeutic window" compared with white subjects. In Korea and Japan, it has been recently reported that low doses of ticagrelor might have a more potent inhibition of platelet aggregation than clopidogrel (75 mg once daily) in healthy subjects and patients with stable coronary artery disease, respectively. But it is still not clear whether a low dose of ticagrelor is superior to clopidogrel in diabetic patients with stable coronary disease. A recent study on pharmacokinetics and tolerability of ticagrelor has found that maximum plasma concentration and area under the plasma concentration-time curve of ticagrelor (90 mg twice daily) and its active metabolite (AR-C124910XX) tended to be approximately 40% higher in healthy Chinese volunteers compared with Caucasian subjects. This data also suggested that a low dose of ticagrelor might be more appropriate for Chinese patients with coronary heart disease. In view of a large diurnal variation with a single daily dose, a lower dose twice daily may be a better choice for Chinese patients.

Recent studies found that antiplatelet drugs might have anti-inflammatory effects and protect endothelial function. ACS patients treated by ticagrelor had a significantly higher increase in levels of circulating progenitor cells compared to those treated by clopidogrel, suggesting a benefit on endothelial regeneration that may participate in the pleiotropic property of the drug. This may prompt the regression of blood vessels and the endothelium stability. But it is not very clear that the effect of low-dose ticagrelor on vascular endothelial function in diabetic patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Therefore, the investigators performed this randomized, single-blind clinical trial to observe the effects of different doses of ticagrelor and standard-dose clopidogrel on platelet aggregation and endothelial function in diabetic patients with stable coronary artery disease.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Stable Coronary Artery Disease (1) stable angina (2) low-risk unstable angina (3) variant angina (4) patients with asymptomatic with appropriate therapy（including percutaneous coronary intervention）
2. Diabetes

Exclusion Criteria:

1. ACS
2. planned use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors, adenosine diphosphate (ADP) receptor antagonists, aspirin or anticoagulant therapy during the study period
3. platelet count \<100g/L
4. creatinine clearance rate \< 30ml/min
5. diagnosed as respiratory or circulatory instability (cardiac shock, severe congestive heart failure NYHA II-IV or left ventricular ejection fraction \< 40%)
6. a history of bleeding tendency
7. ticagrelor or clopidogrel allergies

Primary outcomes:
measure: Inhibition of platelet aggregation
timeFrame: up to 1 month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Endothelial Function
timeFrame: up to 1 month
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: San Diego
country: United States
facility: VerifyNow
state: California
city: Harbin
country: China
facility: Endothelial Function detection by brachial artery ultrasound
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