title: Rosiglitazone and outcomes for patients with diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) trial.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Rosiglitazone improves glycemic control for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, but there remains controversy regarding an observed association with cardiovascular hazard. The cardiovascular effects of rosiglitazone for patients with coronary artery disease remain unknown.
  
  
  RESULTS
  To examine any association between rosiglitazone use and cardiovascular events among patients with diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease, we analyzed events among 2368 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) trial. Total mortality, composite death, myocardial infarction, and stroke, and the individual incidence of death, myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure, and fractures, were compared during 4.5 years of follow-up among patients treated with rosiglitazone versus patients not receiving a thiazolidinedione by use of Cox proportional hazards and Kaplan-Meier analyses that included propensity matching. After multivariable adjustment, among patients treated with rosiglitazone, mortality was similar (hazard ratio [HR], 0.83; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.58-1.18), whereas there was a lower incidence of composite death, myocardial infarction, and stroke (HR, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.55-0.93) and stroke (HR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.16-0.86) and a higher incidence of fractures (HR, 1.62; 95% CI, 1.05-2.51); the incidence of myocardial infarction (HR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.54-1.10) and congestive heart failure (HR, 1.22; 95% CI, 0.84-1.82) did not differ significantly. Among propensity-matched patients, rates of major ischemic cardiovascular events and congestive heart failure were not significantly different.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease in the BARI 2D trial, neither on-treatment nor propensity-matched analysis supported an association of rosiglitazone treatment with an increase in major ischemic cardiovascular events.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00006305.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. rbach@dom.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Bach
authors.forename: Maria Mori
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lombardero
authors.forename: Saul
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Genuth
authors.forename: Thomas W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Donner
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garber
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kennedy
authors.forename: E Scott
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Monrad
authors.forename: Rodica
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pop-Busui
authors.forename: Sheryl F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Kelsey
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Frye
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017130:Angioplasty; D015897:Comorbidity; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015994:Incidence; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D000077154:Rosiglitazone; D020521:Stroke / Q000453:epidemiology; D045162:Thiazolidinediones / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D045162:Thiazolidinediones; D000077154:Rosiglitazone
keywords: coronary disease; diabetes mellitus; myocardial infarction; pharmaceutical preparations; rosiglitazone; thiazolidinediones