Secondary preventive potential of lipid-lowering drugs. The Bezafibrate Coronary Atherosclerosis Intervention Trial (BECAIT)

European Heart Journal
U de FaireA Hamsten

Abstract

Current experience from coronary angiographic trials using different treatment regimens such as lifestyle changes, resins, nicotinic acid and statins, shows that progression of atheroma can be retarded, and that regression can sometimes be induced, by a marked lowering of LDL-cholesterol. Young post-myocardial infarction patients, however, usually exhibit a multiplicity of metabolic risk factors with dyslipidaemias, predominantly hypertriglyceridaemia, and disturbances of glucose-insulin homeostasis and of the haemostatic system. These factors, together coupled with coronary angiographic data showing that the degree of dyslipidaemia is related to the extent and degree of coronary atherosclerosis, and the fact that rapid progression of coronary atherosclerosis was foreseen in this group of patients, resulted in the initiation of the Bezafibrate Coronary Atherosclerosis Intervention Trial (BECAIT) in 1985. BECAIT was a 5-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of bezafibrate (200 mg three times daily) and dietary intervention in dyslipidaemic male survivors of myocardial infarction below 45 years of age. The angiographic analysis included 81 patients (42 bezafibrate and 39 placebo) who underwent baseline and at least one pos...Continue Reading

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