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HealthDay News – For patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) ≥70mg/dL or non-high-density cholesterol ≥100mg/dL despite statin therapy, evolocumab has no impact on patient-reported cognitive function, according to a study published in the May 12 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Baris Gencer, MD, from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues studied self-reported cognition in the Further Cardiovascular Outcomes Research With PCSK9 inhibitors in Subjects With Elevated Risk (FOURIER) trial. Patients completed a 23-item survey on memory and executive domains from the Everyday Cognition (ECog) scale at the final visit.
At a median duration of 2.2 years, 22,655 patients completed ECog. The researchers found that the proportion of patients reporting cognitive decline (ECog score ≥2) was similar for placebo vs evolocumab at the end of the study for total score (3.6 vs 3.7%) and for subdomains (memory: 5.8 vs 6.0%; total executive, 3.6 vs 3.7%). Among the 2338 patients who achieved very low LDL-C levels (<20mg/dL) and the 3613 with LDL-C ≥100 mg/dL, the proportion of patients reporting a decline in total cognitive score was similar (3.8 vs 4.5%).
“These data confirm the neurocognitive safety of intensive LDL-C reduction with evolocumab while reducing recurrent cardiovascular events in high-risk patients, and suggest that very low achieved LDL-C levels may be safely targeted for high-risk patients,” the authors write.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, which manufactures evolocumab and funded the study.
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