Evaluation of the Effect of Alogliptin on Tissue Characteristics of the Carotid Wall: Subanalysis of the SPEAD-A Trial.

Abstract

IntroductionUltrasonic tissue characterization of the carotid wall using gray-scale median (GSM) reflects its composition and low-GSM plaque is considered to be unstable. The present study evaluated the effect of alogliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, on the longitudinal change in GSM, an index of the tissue characteristics of the carotid wall, in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).MethodsThis is a post hoc subanalysis using data obtained from the SPEAD-A trial, a randomized controlled trial that demonstrated the beneficial effect of alogliptin treatment on the progression of carotid intima-media thickness in patients with T2DM with no past history of apparent cardiovascular disease. A total of 322 subjects (161 in the alogliptin treatment group and 161 in the conventional treatment group) were enrolled. The primary outcome was the change from baseline in mean GSM-CCA (common carotid artery) during the 104-week observation period.ResultsBoth alogliptin treatment and conventional treatment significantly increased the mean GSM-CCA (from 60.7 ± 12.3 to 65.9 ± 10.1, p < 0.001 and 58.8 ± 14.4–65.2 ± 12.2, p < 0.001, respectively) and there was no significant difference in changes in mean GSM-CCA between the treatment groups (p = 0.95). Additionally, there were no differences in the changes in the left and right GSM-CCA between the groups.ConclusionsA post hoc subanalysis revealed an improvement of tissue characteristics in the carotid arterial wall in both the alogliptin treatment group and the conventional treatment group during the 104-week treatment period and that there was no significant difference between the treatment groups.Clinical Trial RegistrationUMIN000019951.