In STEMI patients receiving PPCI, infarct size did not differ between exenatide and placebo.
In plain wordsIn heart attack patients receiving PPCI, exenatide and placebo produced similar infarct sizes.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- No significant changeInfarct size
- Study
n = 222
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Heart function · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Measurements
- Infarct size
- 25.1%
- exenatide group
- Infarct size
- 22.5%
- placebo group
Source sentences
and the exenatide hypotheses (25.1 ± 11.5% in the exenatide group vs 22.5 ± 10.9% in the placebo group, P = 0.092).
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
We designed a two-by-two factorial, randomized controlled, blinded, multicenter, clinical trial.
Patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction receiving primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) within 6 h of symptoms were randomized to RIC or sham procedure and exenatide or matching placebo.
A total of 378 patients were randomly allocated, and after applying exclusion criteria, 222 patients were available for analysis.