Ehab Bakbak, Aishwarya Krishnaraj, Deepak L Bhatt, Adrian Quan, Brady Park, Asaad I Bakbak, Basel Bari, Kristin A Terenzi, Yi Pan, Elizabeth J Fry, Daniella C Terenzi, Pankaj Puar, Tayyab S Khan, Ori D Rotstein, C David Mazer, Lawrence A Leiter, Hwee Teoh, David A Hess, Subodh Verma
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Abstract
Background: REDUCE-IT (Reduction of Cardiovascular Events with Icosapent Ethyl-Intervention Trial) showed that icosapent ethyl (IPE) reduced major adverse cardiovascular events by 25%. Since the underlying mechanisms for these benefits are not fully understood, the IPE-PREVENTION CardioLink-14 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04562467) sought to determine if IPE regulates vascular regenerative (VR) cell content in people with mild to moderate hypertriglyceridemia.
Methods: Seventy statin-treated individuals with triglycerides ≥1.50 and <5.6 mmol/L and either atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes with additional cardiovascular risk factors were randomized to IPE (4 g/day) or usual care. VR cells with high aldehyde dehydrogenase activity (ALDHhi) were isolated from blood collected at the baseline and 3-month visits and characterized with lineage-specific cell surface markers. The primary endpoint was the change in frequency of pro-vascular ALDHhiside scatter (SSC)lowCD133+ progenitor cells. Change in frequencies of ALDHhiSSCmid monocyte and ALDHhiSSChi granulocyte precursor subsets, reactive oxygen species production, serum biomarkers, and omega-3 levels were also evaluated.
Findings: Baseline characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors, and medications were balanced between the groups. Compared to usual care, IPE increased the mean frequency of ALDHhiSSClowCD133+ cells (-1.00% ± 2.45% vs. +7.79% ± 1.70%; p = 0.02), despite decreasing overall ALDHhiSSClow cell frequency. IPE assignment also reduced oxidative stress in ALDHhiSSClow progenitors and increased ALDHhiSSChi granulocyte precursor cell content.
Conclusions: IPE-PREVENTION CardioLink-14 provides the first translational evidence that IPE can modulate VR cell content and suggests a novel mechanism that may underlie the cardioprotective effects observed with IPE in REDUCE-IT.
Funding: HLS Therapeutics provided the IPE in kind and had no role in the study design, conduct, analyses, or interpretation.
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