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Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes (FIELD) study: baseline characteristics and short-term effects of fenofibrate [ISRCTN64783481]
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Objective: The Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes (FIELD) Study is examining the effects of long-term fibrate therapy on coronary heart disease (CHD) event rates in patients with diabetes mellitus. This article describes the trial's run-in phase and patients' baseline characteristics. Research design and methods: FIELD is a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 63 centres in 3 countries evaluating the effects of fenofibrate versus placebo on CHD morbidity and mortality in 9795 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Patients were to have no indication for lipid-lowering therapy on randomization, but could start these or other drugs at any time after randomization. Follow-up in the study was to be for a median duration of not less than 5 years and until 500 major coronary events (fatal coronary heart disease plus nonfatal myocardial infarction) had occurred. Results: About 2100 patients (22%) had some manifestation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at baseline and thus high risk status. Less than 25% of patients without CVD had a (UKPDS determined) calculated 5-year CHD risk of <5%, but nearly all had a 5-year stroke risk of <10%. Despite this, half of the cohort were obese (BMI > 30), most were men, two-thirds were aged over 60 years, and substantial proportions had NCEP ATP III features of the metabolic syndrome independent of their diabetes, including low HDL (60%), high blood pressure measurement or treatment for hypertension (84%), high waist measurement (68%), and raised triglycerides (52%). After a 6-week run-in period before randomisation with all participants receiving 200 mg comicronized fenofibrate, there were declines in total and LDL cholesterol (10%) and triglycerides (26%) and an increase in HDL cholesterol (6.5%). Conclusion: The study will show the effect of PPAR-alpha agonist action on CHD and other vascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes including substantial numbers with low to moderate CVD risk but with the various components of the metabolic syndrome. The main results of the study will be reported in late 2005.
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“In fact, clinical studies have consistently demonstrated that fibrates reduce fasting TG levels by 30–50%, depending on baseline values and the specific agent used [77].”
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“The greatest reductions in serum TG are usually observed in subjects with elevated baseline TG including those with the metabolic syndrome (MetS).”
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“Clinical trials examining the cardiovascular benefits of FF alone or combined with statins have produced mixed results.”
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“Consistently, creatinine elevations observed in the FIELD [77] and ACCORD-Lipid [80] trials resolved after treatment discontinuation and were not associated with markers of tubular damage.”
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“In contrast, later studies conducted largely in patients receiving statin therapy, such as FIELD [77] and ACCORD-Lipid [80], did not demonstrate a reduction in major cardiovascular events with fenofibrate in the overall study populations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- The FIELD Study Investigators
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- The FIELD Study Investigators
- Venue
- Cardiovascular Diabetology
- Published
- 2005-08-22
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 13-13
- ISSN
- 1475-2840 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC1266033
- OpenAlex
- W1791318806
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Cardiovascular Diabetology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- National University of Singapore (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Bond University Research Portal (Bond University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Diabetes Australia
- Diabetesliitto
- Medical Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Nephrology › Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
- Keywords
- fenofibrate, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, PPARα agonist, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk, lipid-lowering therapy, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, run-in phase, field trials
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Hypolipidemic Agents, Apolipoproteins B, Australia, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cholesterol, Coronary Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Double-Blind Method, Female, Finland, Humans, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Male, Middle Aged, New Zealand, Obesity, Placebos, Fenofibrate, Triglycerides, Diabetes Complications
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