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Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular DiseasePENELOPECTRLNCT05659888

Real Life Lipid Management in Hospitals Not Participating in PENELOPE Trial - Control Population for PENELOPE

An observational study of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and STEMI, run by Clinical Operations WCN B.V. at 13 sites in Netherlands.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Guideline recommended evidence-based clinical care correlates with improved patient outcomes. In real life care, however, adherence to guideline recommendations remains suboptimal. In real life, patients may receive suboptimal treatment and as a result treatment targets are not always met. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 70 years
How many people
827 participants
Where
13 sitesNetherlands
Study dates
25 Jul 2022to 31 Dec 2023
How long will I take part?
18 Months
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 70 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Study population: Patients with a history of ASCVD and/or type 2 diabetes (T2DM), admitted for a type I ST-elevation myocardial infarct (STEMI) or non-STEMI. Patients <18 years or >70 years of age will be excluded. In PENELOPE patients over 70 were included based on a frailty index. As this parameter cannot be determined retrospectively, patients over 70 will be excluded from the CTRL cohort, as well as from the comparative analysis for the two cohorts.

Who may be able to join

  • Age >18 and ≤70 years
  • Alive at hospital discharge after admission for (N)STEMI between 1-1-2019 and 31-08-2020
  • Planned for follow-up at a participating PENELOPE CTRL site
  • History of T2DM and/or history of ASCVD defined as either one of:
  • cerebrovascular disease/ event: transient ischemic attack, cerebral infarction, amaurosis fugax, retinal infarction
  • Coronary artery disease/ event: unstable angina pectoris, MI, ACS, coronary revascularization (coronary angioplasty or surgical procedure for coronary bypass)
  • Peripheral artery disease (symptomatic and documented obstruction of a distal extremity artery or surgical intervention (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, bypass or amputation)

Who cannot join

  • Pregnant and lactating women
  • Participation in lipid modifying drug trials up to two years after index cardiovascular event

Trial locations and contacts

13 sites in 1 country.

13 sites in 1 country

Netherlands13 sites
  • NoordWest Hospital (NWZ)

    Alkmaar

  • Reinier de Graaf Hospital

    Delft

  • Deventer Hospital

    Deventer

  • Treant Hospital

    Emmen

  • Saxenburg Medisch Centrum

    Hardenberg

  • Elkerliek Hospital

    Helmond

  • Alrijne Hospital

    Leiden

  • Isala Hospital

    Meppel

  • Canisius Wilhemina Hospital (CWZ)

    Nijmegen

  • Haaglanden Hospital

    The Hague

  • Haga Hospital

    The Hague

  • Diakonessenhuis Utrecht

    Utrecht

  • Maxima Medisch Centrum

    Veldhoven

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About this study

Official title: PENELOPE-CTRL: Real Life Lipid Management Compared to Protocolized Implementation of the Current Dutch- and ESC-guidelines in Very High-risk CV-patients

Guideline recommended evidence-based clinical care correlates with improved patient outcomes. In real life care, however, adherence to guideline recommendations remains suboptimal. In real life, patients may receive suboptimal treatment and as a result treatment targets are not always met. To support and improve secondary prevention for cardiovascular disease, PENELOPE and PENELOPE-CTRL are designed to support guideline implementation on lipid management and provide valuable feedback to care-givers on real world data.

Read the detailed description

The recent PENELOPE study was designed to determine the effect of a protocolized, Dutch-, and ESC- guideline based strategy of stepwise intensified lipid management in patients at very high risk for ACS. In PENELOPE 22 Dutch non-academic hospitals, members of the WCN investigator network, implemented a protocol guided guideline approach in a consecutive cohort of very high-risk patients admitted for ACS over the period 01-01-2019 to 31-08-2020. Lipid values and medication strategy are collected at baseline (index ACS), and after three months and one year post ACS, in order to establish the percentage of patients on target (LDL).

The current PENELOPE-CTRL study on the other hand, is designed to serve as a contemporary control cohort for PENELOPE. PENELOPE-CTRL is a retrospective observational study, creating a contemporary snapshot of real-life lipid management for secondary prevention in very high-risk patients. PENELOPE-CTRL will collect data in similar hospitals who did not participate in the PENELOPE trial.

To allow comparison of these two strategies, protocol guided versus real life implementation of the cholesterol treatment guidelines, both cohorts include similar patients, and similar data will be collected (e.g., lipid lowering drugs, lipid panels) . Analysis will be done at similar time points.

Comparing the real-life data from PENELOPE-CTRL with the data from the PENELOPE study will quantify the effect of a strategy of protocolized guideline-based lipid management with regards to the incidence of target LDL-C levels in very high-risk patients, 3 months and one year after hospitalisation with a myocardial infarction.

Medical subject headings
Atherosclerosis, ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Non-ST Elevated Myocardial Infarction

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of patients reaching the LDL-C target level (≤ 1.8 mmol/L)

    reaching LDL-C target level (≤ 1.8 mmol/L) 3 months after admission for a type I (N)STEMI, compared to the designated PENELOPE cohort

    Measured: 3 months

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Incidence of LDL-C target level (≤ 1.8 mmol/L)

    Incidence of LDL-C (≤ 1.8 mmol/L) at baseline (admission for a type I (N)STEMI), 3 months and 1 year after baseline, compared to the designated PENELOPE cohort.

    Measured: 1 year

  2. Incidence of LDL-C target level (≤ 1.4 mmol/L)

    Incidence of LDL-C (≤ 1.4 mmol/L) at baseline (admission for a type I (N)STEMI), 3 months and 1 year after baseline, compared to the designated PENELOPE cohort.

    Measured: 1 year

  3. incidence of achieving 50% LDL-C reduction

    Incidence of achieving 50% LDL-C reduction compared to baseline, after 3 months and 1 year, also adjusted to the start date of the related drug regimen.

    Measured: 1 year

  4. LLT compared to PENELOPE cohort

    Lipid lowering therapy at baseline, after 3 months and 1 year, compared to the designated PENELOPE cohort.

    Measured: 1 year

  5. LDL-C level 3 months after adjustment

    LDL-C level at 3 months, also adjusted to the start date of the related drug regimen.

    Measured: 3 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted21 Dec 2022
  2. Study start25 Jul 2022
  3. Primary completion31 Jan 2023
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2023

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Other
Enrolment
827 participants (actual)
Target duration
18 Months
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05659888
Sponsor's protocol ID
DCV-2017-11843
Acronym
PENELOPECTRL
Status last verified
Jul 2024
First submitted
12 Dec 2022
Last updated
26 Jul 2024
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and STEMI, run by Clinical Operations WCN B.V. at 13 sites in Netherlands.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 7 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Jul 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 13 sites in Netherlands. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of patients reaching the LDL-C target level (≤ 1.8 mmol/L) (time frame: 3 months). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Jul 2024.

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