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Jan 6 2023 This Week in Cardiology

This Week in Cardiology

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A Review of the Fourier Trial of Evolocumab Versus Placebo

Evolocumab as everyone knows is a PCSK9 inhibitor, an in-fourier trial more than 27,000 patients who had established cardiovascular disease were randomized to Evolocumab versus placebo. The primary endpoint was a composite of the first event of CV-death MI stroke hospitalization for unstable angina or coronary revascularization. It's weird that the reductions in MI stroke and coronary revascularizations were not enough to reduce CV-death or overall death.

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