Conditions: Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 83
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of 18Fluorine Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (18FDG-PET) as a tool to quantify atherosclerotic plaque.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: 10 mg atorvastatin + placebo arm 2: 80 mg atorvastatin + placebo

Interventions: intervention 1: atorvastatin intervention 2: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Participants will be asked to self-administer one atorvastatin 10 mg or 80 mg tablet at approximately the same time each day. intervention 2: Participants will be asked to self-administer one tablet of placebo to atorvastatin 10 mg or 80 mg at approximately the same time each day.

Protocol document: