Table 1.

Baseline characteristics and side-effects of both ADEP and DAVID trials

	ADEP study		DAVID study
	Picotamide	Placebo	Picotamide	Aspirin
Dosage	300 mg bid		600 mg bid	320 mg od
Clinical characteristics
	n = 1150	n = 1154	n = 603	n = 606
Age	63.4 + 7.3	62.9 + 7.4	63.8 + 7.2	64.6 + 7.3
Diabetes	20%	18%	100%	100%
PAD	100%	100%	100%	100%
Smoke	39.6%	37.1%	30.5%	28.4%
Hypertension	34.5%	37.5%	58.2%	55.6%
Dyslipidemia	36.5%	35.8%	38%	38.4%
Previous stroke	1.4%	1.7%	10.4%	10.2%
Coronary heart disease	15%	12.7%	19.4%	19%
Side-effects
Gastro-intestinal	11.1%	12%	10.9%	18.3%
Total	14.3%	13.5%	25.6%	33.9%

Abbreviations: bid, twice a day; od, once a day; PAD, peripheral artery disease.