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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2017 Apr;19(4):18. doi: 10.1007/s11883-017-0651-4

Table 1.

Ongoing clinical trials of aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs in HIV+ patients to reduce cardiovascular risk

Drug Phase Randomized? Cardiovascular and/or inflammation outcomes Size Status Identifier
Aspirin
Aspirin (325 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular endothelial injury and thrombosis 22 Terminated NCT00783614
Inflammation: blood markers of inflammation (not specified further)
Aspirin (1 day 325 mg and followed by 81 mg daily) vs. clopidogrel 2 Y Cardiovascular endothelial function 50 Recruiting NCT02559414
Inflammation: platelet activity, inflammation, immune activity (not specified further)
Aspirin 1 & 2 Y Cardiovascular reactive hyperemia index 91 Completed NCT02401269
Inflammation: TNF-alpha, CRP, IL-6
Aspirin (81 mg) vs atorvastatin (40 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular carotid MR! 120 Recruiting NCT02081638
Inflammation: sCD14, IL-6, D-dimer, hsCRP, sCD163, sTF, others T cell activation,
  (HLA-DR/CD38 coexpression), monocyte activity (CD14+, +CD16+, and CD14varCD16
  +, CCR5, TF, CCR2)
Clopidogrel (75 mg) vs. aspirin (81 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular none 40 Recruiting NCT02578706
Inflammation: sCD14, monocyte activity (CD14, CD16, sCD163, cholesterol uptake),
  IL-6, D-dimer, sTNFR I/II,
  platelet activity (light transmission aggregometry, clot formation kinetics, thrombus
  formation by Badimon chamber
Aspirin (100 and 300 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular brachial artery FMD 121 Completed NCT02155985
Inflammation: sCD14, sCD163, CD14, CD16, CD69, CD4 + CD38+, CD4 + HLA-DR+, CD8 + CD38+,
  CD8 + HLA-DR+, PD-1, CTLA-4, IL-6, D-dimer, kynurenine to tryptophan ratio, serum
  thromboxane b2, 11 -dehydrothromboxane
Other anti-inflammatoiy drills
Methotrexate (5, 10, and 15 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular brachial artery FMD, diameter, hyperemic flow velocity 200 Active, not recruiting NCT01949116
Inflammation: CD4 cell count, hsCRP, IL-6, sCD163, D-dimer, monocyte activity
Colchicine (0.6 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular coronary endothelial function, coronary artery cross-sectional artery, brachial artery FMD 102 Currently recruiting NCT02624180
Inflammation: hsCRP, IL-6
Pentoxifylline (400 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular brachial artery FMD 26 Completed NCT00796822
Inflammation: activated CD8 cell percentage, CD4 cell count, MCP-1, sVCAM-1, IP-10, MMP-9,
  TIMP-1, PAI-1 active, hsCRP
Canakinumab (150 mg) 2 Y Cardiovascular number of adverse events, brachial artery FMD, arterial fluorodeoxygenase (FDG)
  uptake via FDG-PET/CT
110 Currently recruiting NCT02272946
Inflammation: hsCRP, IL-6, CD 163, D-dimer, T cell and monocyte activation, HIV reservoir size.
Anti-fibrosis drugs with anti-inflammatory properties
Losartan (50-100 mg)/raltegravir (400 mg) 4 Y Cardiovascular carotid intima media thickness, levels of metalloproteinases and their inhibitors 48 Completed NCT01529749
Inflammation: lymphatic tissue fibrosis, IL-6, D-dimer, CRP, CD4, viral load, CD4/CD8 ratio
EplCTenone 50 mg N/a Y Cardiovascular: coronary flow reserve measured via canliac PET, myocardial inflammation
  measured by extracellular volume fraction via cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, coronary plaque
  measured by coronary CTA, markers of vascular dysfunction
60 Currently recruiting NCT02740179
Inflammation: markers of systemic inflammation, immune activation, and fibrosis (not specified further)

Only studies that included inflammatory markers as outcomes are included.

hsCRP highly-sensitive C-reactive protein, CRP C-reactive protein, sCD14soluble CD14, sCD163 soluble CD163, IL-6 interleukin-6, FMD flow-mediated dilatation, sTNFR soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor, TNF tumor necrosis factor, MCP-1 monocyte chemotactic protein 1, sVCAM-1 soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1, IP-10 interferon gamma-induced protein 10, MMP-9 matrix metallopeptidase, TIMP-1 TIMP metallopeptidase inhibitor 1, PAI-1 plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, PET positron emission tomography, FDG fluorodeoxygenase, HLA-DR human leukocyte antigen-antigen D-related