Efficacy and safety of evolocumab in elderly patients with high-risk cardiovascular diseases
10.3969/j.issn.1009-0126.2024.02.005
- VernacularTitle:老年高危心血管病患者应用依洛尤单抗的有效性及安全性研究
- Author:
Xinlian QI
1
;
Xiao ZOU
;
Haijun WANG
;
Chunlin LI
;
Sha ZHANG
;
Xiansai MENG
;
Yang LI
;
Quanjin SI
Author Information
1. 100853 北京,解放军总医院第二医学中心保健三科
- Keywords:
cardiovascular diseases;
atherosclerosis;
cholesterol;
serine proteinase inhibitors;
drug-related side effects and adverse reactions;
evolocumab
- From:
Chinese Journal of Geriatric Heart Brain and Vessel Diseases
2024;26(2):137-141
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To explore the efficacy and safety of evolocumab in elderly patients with high-risk cardiovascular diseases.Methods A total of 153 patients with poor lipid control after conventional statin therapy who were hospitalized in the cardiologic departments in the First,Sec-ond,Sixth and Eighth Medical Centers of Chinese PLA General Hospital from November 2019 to November 2022 were included,and divided into non-elderly group(＜60 years old,46 cases),eld-erly group(60-74 years old,66 case)and very elderly group(≥75 years old,41 cases).They were all given evolocumab treatment according to guidelines.Another 50 over-75-year-old patients with high-risk cardiovascular diseases and poor lipid control who were hospitalized in the above cardiologic departments during the same period were treated with a statin drug combined with ezetimibe,and served as conventional treatment group(control group).The baseline clinical data and the blood indicators at 4th and 12th week after drug administration,and the occurrence of ad-verse drug reactions and major adverse cardiovascular events(MACE)within 12 weeks were com-pared among the groups.Results The levels of LDL-C and TC were significantly decreased in the three evolocumab treatment groups at 4 and 12 weeks after medication when compared with the baseline values(P＜0.05,P＜0.01),but there were no obvious differences in the 2 levels among the 3 groups at 12 weeks(P＞0.05).At the time point,no statistical difference was observed in the incidence of adverse events in the three groups(2.2％vs 3.0％vs 2.4％,P＞0.05).The levels of LDL-C and TC were decreased significantly in the very elderly group and the conventional treatment group at the 12th week when compared with the baseline levels(P＜0.05,P＜0.01),and the LDL-C level at the week was notably lower in the very elderly group than the convention-al treatment group(1.36±0.44 mmol/L vs 1.87±0.56 mmol/L,P＜0.01).But no difference was seen in the incidence of MACE between the 2 groups(12.2％vs 16.0％,P＞0.05),either in sur-vival rate between them(P=0.576).Conclusion For patients of all ages,evolocumab has good short-term efficacy in lipid control,and for those over 75 years old,the drug also shows good effi-cacy and sound safety.
