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This study aims to assess the effects of low dose ticagrelor on platelet function testing in patients with stable coronary artery disease.


Clinical Trial Description

Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel represents the standard of care for the prevention of recurrent ischemic events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). For more than 20 years, dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and Clopidogrel has remained the cornerstone of treatment for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, some patients have impaired clopidogrel response and thus persist with high on-treatment platelet reactivity (HPR) resulting in an increased risk of atherothrombotic events. The boxed warning added to the clopidogrel label underscoring the potential risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes among patients with a "poor metabolizer" genotype and advocating the use of other antiplatelet medications or alternative dosing strategies for these patients has led to investigations of treatment options associated with more optimal platelet inhibition. These include switching to a novel generation P2Y12 inhibitor (e.g. prasugrel or ticagrelor).

Ticagrelor is an antagonist of the P2Y12 receptor. The drug was approved for use in the European Union by the European Medicines Agency on December 3, 2010. The drug was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on July 20, 2011. The FDA indication for ticagrelor is a reduction of the rate of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke in people with an acute coronary syndrome or history of myocardial infarction.

According to ESC 2017 guidelines, ticagrelor is the first-option treatment in patients with acute coronary syndrome with or without ST-segment elevation, irrespective of treatment strategy (invasive or non-invasive) - IB level of evidence. Furthermore, the 2017 ESC Focused Update on Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy allows physicians to administer ticagrelor to patients with stable coronary artery disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention after taking thrombotic and hemorrhagic risk into consideration.

In healthy Chinese subjects, low-dose ticagrelor produced an antiplatelet efficacy similar to that of standard-dose ticagrelor, which was faster and more potent than the effect of clopidogrel. In the East Asian population, there is limited evidence available to date that compares low versus standard doses of ticagrelor to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety. Larger and longer duration studies are warranted to more closely examine the appropriateness of lower doses of ticagrelor in this population.

The investigators postulate that inhibition of platelet aggregation in response to low dose Ticagrelor as opposed to the standard dose is non-inferior to that of Clopidogrel. ;


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NCT number NCT04206176
Study type Interventional
Source The University of The West Indies
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Status Completed
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date October 1, 2019
Completion date March 31, 2020

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