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Antiinflammatory Therapy with Canakinumab for Atherosclerotic Disease

2017

Background: Experimental and clinical data suggest that reducing inflammation without affecting lipid levels may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Yet, the inflammatory hypothesis of atherothrombosis has remained unproved. Methods: We conducted a randomized, double-blind trial of canakinumab, a therapeutic monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-1β, involving 10,061 patients with previous myocardial infarction and a high-sensitivity C-reactive protein level of 2 mg or more per liter. The trial compared three doses of canakinumab (50 mg, 150 mg, and 300 mg, administered subcutaneously every 3 months) with placebo. The primary efficacy end point was nonfatal myocardial infarction, …

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Effect of Sitagliptin on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

2015

BACKGROUND: Data are lacking on the long-term effect on cardiovascular events of adding sitagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitor, to usual care in patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. METHODS: In this randomized, double-blind study, we assigned 14,671 patients to add either sitagliptin or placebo to their existing therapy. Open-label use of antihyperglycemic therapy was encouraged as required, aimed at reaching individually appropriate glycemic targets in all patients. To determine whether sitagliptin was noninferior to placebo, we used a relative risk of 1.3 as the marginal upper boundary. The primary cardiovascular outcome was a composite of cardiovascular deat…

Oralmedicine.medical_specialtyHeart diseasesGlycosylatedAdministration Oralheart failureType 2 diabetesDipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitorKaplan-Meier EstimatePlaceboSitagliptin PhosphateSitagliptin Cardiovascular Outcomeschemistry.chemical_compoundDrug TherapyDouble-Blind MethodInternal medicineDiabetes MellitusmedicineHumansHypoglycemic AgentsGlycated HemoglobinHemoglobin A GlycosylatedAdministration Oral; Cardiovascular Diseases; Diabetes Mellitus Type 2; Double-Blind Method; Drug Therapy Combination; Follow-Up Studies; Heart Diseases; Heart Failure; Hemoglobin A Glycosylated; Hospitalization; Humans; Hypoglycemic Agents; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Pyrazines; Sitagliptin Phosphate; Triazoles; Medicine (all)business.industryMedicine (all)SemaglutideSitagliptin PhosphateHemoglobin AGeneral MedicineTriazolesta3121medicine.diseaseSurgeryHospitalizationCardiovascular diseaseschemistryDiabetes Mellitus Type 2SitagliptinPyrazinesAdministrationCombinationDrug Therapy CombinationGlycated hemoglobinbusinessType 2Alogliptinmedicine.drugFollow-Up StudiesNew England Journal of Medicine
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Production of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] 7 TeV.

2014

The production of the strange and double-strange baryon resonances (\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\Sigma (1385)^{\pm }$$\end{document}Σ(1385)±, \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\Xi (1530)^{0}$$\end{document}Ξ(1530)0) has been measured at mid-rapidity (\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath}…

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