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Age-related macular degeneration in a randomized controlled trial of low-dose aspirin: Rationale and study design of the ASPREE-AMD study

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Robman, L and Guymer, R and Woods, R and Ward, S and Wolfe, R and Phung, J and Hodgson, L and Makeyeva, G and Aung, KZ and Gilbert, T and Lockery, J and Le-Pham, Y-A and Orchard, S and Storey, E and Abhayaratna, W and Reid, D and Ernst, ME and Nelson, M and Reid, C and McNeil, J, on behalf of the ASPREE Investigator Group, Age-related macular degeneration in a randomized controlled trial of low-dose aspirin: Rationale and study design of the ASPREE-AMD study, Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 6 pp. 105-114. ISSN 2451-8654 (2017) [Contribution to Refereed Journal]


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DOI: doi:10.1016/j.conctc.2017.03.005

Abstract

Purpose: Although aspirin therapy is used widely in older adults for prevention of cardiovascular disease, its impact on the incidence, progression and severity of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is uncertain. The effect of low-dose aspirin on the course of AMD will be evaluated in this clinical trial.

Design: A sub-study of the ‘ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly’ (ASPREE) trial, ASPREE-AMD is a 5-year follow-up double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of the effect of 100 mg daily aspirin on the course of AMD in 5000 subjects aged 70 years or older, with normal cognitive function and without cardiovascular disease at baseline. Non-mydriatic fundus photography will be performed at baseline, 3-year and 5-year follow-up to determine AMD status.

Primary outcome measures: The incidence and progression of AMD. Exploratory analyses will determine whether aspirin affects the risk of retinal hemorrhage in late AMD, and whether other factors, such as genotype, systemic disease, inflammatory biomarkers, influence the effect of aspirin on AMD.

Conclusion: The study findings will be of significant clinical and public interest due to a potential to identify a possible low cost therapy for preventing AMD worldwide and to determine risk/benefit balance of the aspirin usage by the AMD-affected elderly. The ASPREE-AMD study provides a unique opportunity to determine the effect of aspirin on AMD incidence and progression, by adding retinal imaging to an ongoing, large-scale primary prevention randomized clinical trial.

Item Details

Item Type:Contribution to Refereed Journal
Keywords:age-related macular degeneration, AMD, aspirin, incidence, progression, randomized controlled trial
Research Division:Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Research Group:Cardiovascular medicine and haematology
Research Field:Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)
Objective Division:Health
Objective Group:Clinical health
Objective Field:Clinical health not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:Nelson, M (Professor Mark Nelson)
ID Code:116517
Year Published:2017
Deposited By:Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Deposited On:2017-05-11
Last Modified:2018-12-13
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