NCT02551094

Colchicine Cardiovascular Outcomes Trial (COLCOT)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4,745 (actual)
• Sponsor: Montreal Heart Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study evaluates whether long-term treatment with colchicine reduces rates of cardiovascular events in patients after myocardial infarction. Patients who have suffered a documented acute myocardial infarction within the last 30 days, are treated according to the national guidelines and after having completed any planned percutaneous revascularization procedures associated with their initial infarction will receive either colchicine (0.5 mg per day) or matching placebo (1:1 allocation ratio) for an estimated 2 years period or until the target of 301 primary endpoints has been reached.

Detailed description

Atherosclerosis is the most common cause of myocardial infarction, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Research has clearly demonstrated that inflammation plays a key role in the initiation, progression and manifestations of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerotic lesions begin as an accumulation of lipid-laden cells (primarily macrophages) beneath the endothelium, and progress with the further accumulation of cells, connective-tissue elements, lipids and debris through immunological and inflammatory activation. Neutrophils and other inflammatory cells have been shown to invade culprit atherosclerotic lesions in acute coronary syndromes. It is likely that the inflammatory process is responsible for the high rate of cardiovascular events despite significant advances in the treatment of risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. It is vital to improve our understanding of the inflammatory nature of atherosclerotic disease and modify the inflammatory process with targeted therapies. Prospective cohort studies have consistently shown that high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and several other biomarkers of inflammation are independently associated with increasing risk of future cardiovascular events in different populations. This together with animal models showing that reduced inflammation has anti-atherosclerotic effects, create the impetus to test the hypothesis that treatment of the underlying inflammatory process will contribute to improved cardiovascular clinical outcomes. Colchicine is an inexpensive, yet potent, anti-inflammatory drug approved for acute use in patients with gout and chronic use in patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever. The mechanism of action is through the inhibition of tubulin polymerization and potentially also through effects on cellular adhesion molecules and inflammatory chemokines. Colchicine may also have direct anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting key inflammatory signaling networks known as the inflammasome and pro-inflammatory cytokines. Through the disruption of the cytoskeleton, colchicine is believed to suppress secretion of cytokines and chemokines as well as in vitro platelet aggregation. Considerable work has highlighted the potential of colchicine in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases mediated by pro-inflammatory processes. More recently colchicine has been evaluated for its effect on cardiovascular events in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD).

Conditions

• Coronary Artery Disease
• Myocardial Infarction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	colchicine	0.5 mg tablet taken once a day
DRUG	colchicine placebo	sugar pill manufactured to mimic colchicine 0.5 mg tablet

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-12-04
• Primary completion: 2019-07-17
• Completion: 2019-07-17
• First posted: 2015-09-16
• Last updated: 2020-10-19
• Results posted: 2020-10-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada