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CompletedNCT00442845

Establish The Benefits Of Using Various Starting Doses Of Atorvastatin On Achievement Of Cholesterol Targets (ACTFAST)

ACTFAST: Achieve Cholesterol Targets Fast With Atorvastatin Stratified Titration. A Multicenter, Twelve-Week Treatment, Single Step Titration, Open-Label Study Assessing The Percentage Of Dyslipidemic High-Risk Patients Achieving Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL-C) Target With Atorvastatin Starting Doses Of 10 Mg, 20 Mg, 40 Mg, And 80 Mg

Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 4
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
2,080 (planned)
Sponsor
Pfizer's Upjohn has merged with Mylan to form Viatris Inc. · Industry
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Physicians tend to always use the lowest dose of statins to initiate therapy even in subjects who require large reductions in cholesterol. The study evaluates if selecting the starting dose based on baseline and target LDL-C cholesterol would provide better results (ie proportion of subjects resching target)

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DRUGAtorvastatin (Lipitor)

Timeline

Start date
2003-01-01
Primary completion
2004-02-01
Completion
2004-02-01
First posted
2007-03-02
Last updated
2021-02-18

Locations

121 sites across 5 countries: Cameroon, Canada, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00442845. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.