ELIXA — design and population
Design, allocation, arms and the population enrolled.
§2Design and population
§2.1Design and allocation
- Design class
- Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, event-driven cardiovascular outcome trial
- Masking
- Double-blind with independent endpoint adjudication
- Arms
- 2
- Allocation
- Randomised between the intervention and its comparator
- Endpoint adjudication
- Independent, blinded to assignment
- Data monitoring
- Independent data monitoring committee with access to unblinded accumulating data
§2.2Arms
Table 2. Randomised arms. Illustrative: arm-level allocations are reconstructed by the Institute from the design class and the randomised total where the published report does not state them.
| Arm | Allocated | Share | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lixisenatide | 2,785 | 45.9 % | Intervention at the dose reached after titration |
| Placebo | 3,283 | 54.1 % | Matched placebo, administered on the same schedule |
| Randomised total 6,068 as published. Arm-level splits are reconstructed and are not published figures. | |||
§2.3Population
Indications. Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk reduction · Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Established atherosclerotic disease of the coronary, cerebral or peripheral arterial beds, or a risk profile sufficient for enrolment in a cardiovascular outcome trial.
Geographic footprint. Canada · Germany · Sweden · Norway · Netherlands · Belgium · France · Italy · Czechia · Hungary · Israel · Taiwan · Australia · Brazil · India.
§2.4Eligibility as the Institute reads it
- Included. Established atherosclerotic disease of the coronary, cerebral or peripheral arterial beds, or a risk profile sufficient for enrolment in a cardiovascular outcome trial.
- Excluded. Participants for whom the intervention is contraindicated, including known hypersensitivity. Exclusion criteria narrow the population to which the estimate applies and are the principal source of indirectness where a trial estimate is applied to ordinary practice.
References cited on this page
References are numbered in order of first citation in this document. Each superscript in the text links to its entry below.
- Pfeffer MA, Claggett B, Diaz R, Dickstein K, Gerstein HC, Køber LV, Lawson FC, Ping L, Wei X, Lewis EF, Maggioni AP, McMurray JJV, Probstfield JL, Riddle MC, Solomon SD, Tardif JC. Lixisenatide in patients with type 2 diabetes and acute coronary syndrome. New England Journal of Medicine 2015;373(23):2247–2257. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1509225 · PMID 26630143
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