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Transitioning to active-controlled trials to evaluate cardiovascular safety and efficacy of medications for type 2 diabetes

McGuire, Darren K., D’Alessio, David, Nicholls, Stephen J., Nissen, Steven E., Riesmeyer, Jeffrey S., Pavo, Imre, Sethuraman, Shanthi, Heilmann, Cory R., Kaiser, John J., Weerakkody, Govinda J.·2022·Cardiovascular Diabetology
DOI 10.1186/s12933-022-01601-wPMC PMC9400320
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Cardiovascular (CV) outcome trials (CVOTs) of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) therapies have mostly used randomized comparison with placebo to demonstrate non-inferiority to establish that the investigational drug does not increase CV risk. Recently, several glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) and sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i) demonstrated reduced CV risk. Consequently, future T2DM therapy trials could face new ethical and clinical challenges if CVOTs continue with the traditional, placebo-controlled design. To address this challenge, here we review the methodologic considerations in transitioning to active-controlled CVOTs and describe the statistical design of a CVOT to assess non-inferiority versus an active comparator and if non-inferiority is proven, using novel methods to assess for superiority versus an imputed placebo. Specifically, as an example of such methodology, we introduce the statistical considerations used for the design of the “Effect of Tirzepatide versus Dulaglutide on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes” trial (SURPASS CVOT). It is the first active-controlled CVOT assessing antihyperglycemic therapy in patients with T2DM designed to demonstrate CV efficacy of the investigational drug, tirzepatide, a dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and GLP-1 RA, by establishing non-inferiority to an active comparator with proven CV efficacy, dulaglutide. To determine the efficacy margin for the hazard ratio, tirzepatide versus dulaglutide, for the composite CV outcome of death, myocardial infarction, or stroke (MACE-3), which is required to claim superiority versus an imputed placebo, the lower bound of efficacy of dulaglutide compared with placebo was estimated using a hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis of placebo-controlled CVOTs of GLP-1 RAs. SURPASS CVOT was designed so that when the observed upper bound of the 95% confidence interval of the hazard ratio is less than the lower bound of efficacy of dulaglutide, it demonstrates non-inferiority to dulaglutide by preserving at least 50% of the CV benefit of dulaglutide as well as statistical superiority of tirzepatide to a theoretical placebo (imputed placebo analysis). The presented methods adding imputed placebo comparison for efficacy assessment may serve as a model for the statistical design of future active-controlled CVOTs.

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Fig. 1 MACE outcome event rate over time in different cardiovascular outcome trials. ELIXA Evaluation of Lixisenatide in Acute Coronary Syndrome, EXSCEL Exenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering, GLP-1 RA glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, LEADER Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of cardiovascular outcome Results, MACE major adverse cardiovascular events (a composite outcome comprising non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, and death from cardiovascular causes), PIONEER Pre-operative wIndOw study of letrozole plus PR agonist (Megestrol Acetate) versus letrozole aloNE in post-menopausal patients with ER-positive breast cancer, REWIND Researching Cardiovascular Events With a Weekly Incretin in Diabetes, SUSTAIN Semaglutide Unabated Sustainability in Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Fig. 1 MACE outcome event rate over time in different cardiovascular outcome trials. ELIXA Evaluation of Lixisenatide in Acute Coronary Syndrome, EXSCEL Exenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering, GLP-1 RA glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, LEADER Liraglutide Effect and Action in Diabetes: Evaluation of cardiovascular outcome Results, MACE major adverse cardiovascular events (a composite outcome comprising non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, and death from cardiovascular causes), PIONEER Pre-operative wIndOw study of letrozole plus PR agonist (Megestrol Acetate) versus letrozole aloNE in post-menopausal patients with ER-positive breast cancer, REWIND Researching Cardiovascular Events With a Weekly Incretin in Diabetes, SUSTAIN Semaglutide Unabated Sustainability in Treatment of Type 2 DiabetesCC BY · PubMed Central
Fig. 2 Demonstrating Preservation of 50% Efficacy of Dulaglutide. HR hazard ratio, IT investigational treatment. The simulation study showed a probability of 0.997 for tirzepatide to preserve 50% of dulaglutide efficacy. Therefore, due to the conservative choice of M1 margin and large sample size of SURPASS CVOT, a NI margin of 1.05 in the SURPASS CVOT will not only demonstrate NI of tirzepatide to dulaglutide, but also superiority of tirzepatide to a putative placebo
Fig. 2 Demonstrating Preservation of 50% Efficacy of Dulaglutide. HR hazard ratio, IT investigational treatment. The simulation study showed a probability of 0.997 for tirzepatide to preserve 50% of dulaglutide efficacy. Therefore, due to the conservative choice of M1 margin and large sample size of SURPASS CVOT, a NI margin of 1.05 in the SURPASS CVOT will not only demonstrate NI of tirzepatide to dulaglutide, but also superiority of tirzepatide to a putative placeboCC BY · PubMed Central

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Authors
McGuire, D. K., D’Alessio, D., Nicholls, S. J., Nissen, S. E., Riesmeyer, J. S., Pavo, I., Sethuraman, S., Heilmann, C. R., Kaiser, J. J., & Weerakkody, G. J.
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Cardiovascular Diabetology
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2022-08-24
Volume
21
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1
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1475-2840
DOI
10.1186/s12933-022-01601-w
PMC
PMC9400320
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