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Medicine (Baltimore)
August 2025
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Pengzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
An increasing body of research indicates an association between lipid-lowering medications and sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), although there is still controversy. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the genetic correlation between different lipid-lowering therapeutic gene targets and SNHL. The genetic association between lipids, lipid-lowering drug target genes, and SNHL was analyzed using a 2-sample Mendelian randomization approach.
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May 2025
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States.
Multivariable cis-Mendelian randomization (cis-MVMR) has become an effective approach for identifying therapeutic targets that influence disease susceptibility. However, biases from invalid instruments, such as weak instruments and horizontal pleiotropy, remain unsolved. In this paper, we propose a new method called the cis-Mendelian randomization bias correction estimating equation (cis-MRBEE), which mitigates weak instrument bias by leveraging a local sparse genetic architecture: most variants within a genomic region are associated with a trait through linkage disequilibrium with a few causal variants.
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April 2025
Division of Preventive Cardiology and Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Aim: To evaluate whether the effect of inclisiran to lower LDL-C varied by background lipid-lowering therapy (LLT).
Methods: In ORION-10 and ORION-11 Phase 3 trials, patients (N=3178) with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) or ASCVD risk equivalents were randomized 1:1 to receive inclisiran or placebo on Day 1, Day 90, and 6-monthly thereafter. In this pooled post hoc analysis, patients were stratified by baseline combination therapy (statin plus ezetimibe [n=214; 6.
J Am Coll Cardiol
June 2025
Early Clinical Development, Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Background: Most patients at high-risk for cardiovascular events do not achieve lipid goals advocated by American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines despite the wide availability of lipid-lowering therapy. AZD0780 is a novel, oral, small molecule inhibitor of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) in development as a once-daily treatment for hypercholesterolemia.
Objectives: The phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter PURSUIT trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of AZD0780 in patients with hypercholesterolemia already on background moderate-to-high-intensity statin treatment.