MRFIT - randomized primary prevention trial to test the effect of a multifactor intervention program on mortality from coronary heart disease. Men were randomly assigned either to a special intervention program consisting of stepped-care treatment for hypertension, counseling for cigarette smoking, and dietary advice for lowering blood cholesterol levels, or to their usual sources of health care.[23]
Helsinki Heart Study - landmark clinical trial conducted to assess the efficacy of gemfibrozil in reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease in middle-aged men with dyslipidemia.[37]
HDL-Atherosclerosis Treatment Study (HATS) - a double-blind trial that studied people with coronary heart disease and compared a combination of simvastatin and niacin with antioxidant vitamin therapy.[38]
Heart Protection Study - a randomized controlled trial that studied the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin and vitamin supplementation in people at risk of cardiovascular disease.[39]
PROVE-IT TIMI 22 - randomized, double-blind clinical trial that compared intensive vs. moderate-dose statin therapy immediately after a heart attack.[42]
Scandinavian_Simvastatin_Survival_Study (4S) - clinical trial that studied the use of the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin in people with moderately raised cholesterol and coronary heart disease.[44]
West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS) - randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that compared the cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin in patients with no previous history of a heart attack.[45]
BRIDGE - Perioperative anticoagulation bridging for Afib
[[Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial[[ (CAST) - double-blind, randomized, controlled study designed to test the hypothesis that suppression of premature ventricular complexes (PVC) with class I antiarrhythmic agents after a myocardial infarction (MI) would reduce mortality.[48][49]
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