Aspirin Does Not Increase Heart Failure Events in Heart Failure Patients : From the WARCEF Trial

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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to determine whether aspirin increases heart failure (HF) hospitalization or death in patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction receiving an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB).

BACKGROUND: Because of its cyclooxygenase inhibiting properties, aspirin has been postulated to increase HF events in patients treated with ACE inhibitors or ARBs. However, no large randomized trial has addressed the clinical relevance of this issue.

METHODS: We compared aspirin and warfarin for HF events (hospitalization, death, or both) in the 2,305 patients enrolled in the WARCEF (Warfarin versus Aspirin in Reduced Cardiac Ejection Fraction) trial (98.6% on ACE inhibitor or ARB treatment), using conventional Cox models for time to first event (489 events). In addition, to examine multiple HF hospitalizations, we used 2 extended Cox models, a conditional model and a total time marginal model, in time to recurrent event analyses (1,078 events).

RESULTS: After adjustment for baseline covariates, aspirin- and warfarin-treated patients did not differ in time to first HF event (adjusted hazard ratio: 0.87; 95% confidence interval: 0.72 to 1.04; p = 0.117) or first hospitalization alone (adjusted hazard ratio: 0.88; 95% confidence interval: 0.73 to 1.06; p = 0.168). The extended Cox models also found no significant differences in all HF events or in HF hospitalizations alone after adjustment for covariates.

CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction in the WARCEF trial, there was no significant difference in risk of HF events between the aspirin and warfarin-treated patients. (Warfarin Versus Aspirin in Reduced Cardiac Ejection Fraction trial [WARCEF]; NCT00041938).

Errataetall:

CommentIn: JACC Heart Fail. 2017 Aug;5(8):611-614. - PMID 28774397

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

JACC. Heart failure - 5(2017), 8 vom: 08. Aug., Seite 603-610

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Teerlink, John R [VerfasserIn]
Qian, Min [VerfasserIn]
Bello, Natalie A [VerfasserIn]
Freudenberger, Ronald S [VerfasserIn]
Levin, Bruce [VerfasserIn]
Di Tullio, Marco R [VerfasserIn]
Graham, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Mann, Douglas L [VerfasserIn]
Sacco, Ralph L [VerfasserIn]
Mohr, J P [VerfasserIn]
Lip, Gregory Y H [VerfasserIn]
Labovitz, Arthur J [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Seitetz C [VerfasserIn]
Ponikowski, Piotr [VerfasserIn]
Lok, Dirk J [VerfasserIn]
Anker, Stefan D [VerfasserIn]
Thompson, John L P [VerfasserIn]
Homma, Shunichi [VerfasserIn]
WARCEF Investigators [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

5Q7ZVV76EI
Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists
Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors
Anticoagulants
Aspirin
Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors
Heart failure
Hospitalization
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
R16CO5Y76E
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Survival
Warfarin

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 07.05.2018

Date Revised 06.03.2020

published: Print

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00041938

CommentIn: JACC Heart Fail. 2017 Aug;5(8):611-614. - PMID 28774397

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jchf.2017.04.011

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM274484064