William C. Cushman, MD, FACP, FAHA Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, TN

1. Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Control on Cardiovascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) Blood Pressure Trial William C. Cushman, MD, FACP, FAHA Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, TN For The ACCORD Study Group

2. Collaboration & support National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Eye Institute (NEI) National Institute on Aging (NIA) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Contributions Abbott Laboratories (and Fournier Laboratories) AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP Sanofi-Aventis U.S GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. MediSense Products (division of Abbott Laboratories) Merck & Company, Inc. Closer Healthcare Inc. Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Inc. Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals., Inc. Omron Healthcare, Inc. AmylinPharmaceuticals, Inc. Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc ACCORD Sponsor, Collaborators and Contributors Sponsor: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

3. ACCORD Study Design • Randomized multi-center clinical trial • Conducted in 77 clinical sites in North America (U.S. and Canada) • Designed to independently test three medical strategies to reduce CVD in diabetic patients • BP question: does a therapeutic strategy targeting systolic blood pressure (SBP) <120 mmHg reduce CVD events compared to a strategy targeting SBP <140 mmHg in patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk for CVD events?

4. ACCORD Double 2 x 2 Factorial Design Lipid BP Placebo Fibrate Intensive Standard Intensive Glycemic Control 1383 1374 1178 1193 5128 Standard Glycemic Control 1370 1391 1184 1178 5123 2765 2362 2371 10,251 2753 5518 4733* • * 94% power for 20% reduction in event rate, assuming standard group rate of 4% / yr and 5.6 yrs follow-up

5. ACCORD BP Trial Eligibility • Stable Type 2 Diabetes >3 months • HbA1c 7.5% to 11% (or <9% if on more meds) • High CVD risk = clinical or subclinical disease or ≥2 risk factors • Age (limited to <80 years after Vanguard) • ≥ 40 yrs with history of clinical CVD (secondary prevention) • ≥ 55 yrs otherwise • Systolic blood pressure • 130 to 160 mm Hg (if on 0-3 meds) • 161 to 170 mm Hg (if on 0-2 meds) • 171 to 180 mm Hg (if on 0-1 meds) • Urine protein <1.0 gm/24 hours or equivalent • Serum Creatinine ≤1.5 mg/dl

6. ACCORD BP Protocol • Many drugs/combinations provided to achieve goal BP according to randomized assignment. • Intensive Intervention: • 2-drug therapy initiated: thiazide-type diuretic + ACEI, ARB, or b-blocker. • Drugs added and/or titrated at each visit to achieve SBP <120 mm Hg. • At periodic “milepost” visits: addition of another drug “required” if not at goal. • Standard Intervention: • Intensify therapy if SBP ≥160 mm Hg @ 1 visit or ≥140 mm Hg @ 2 consecutive visits • Down-titration if SBP <130 mm Hg @ 1 visit or <135 mm Hg @ 2 consecutive visits

7. Baseline Characteristics *Median value

8. Systolic Pressures (mean + 95% CI) Mean # Meds Intensive: 3.2 3.4 3.5 3.4 Standard: 1.9 2.1 2.2 2.3 Average after 1st year: 133.5 Standard vs. 119.3 Intensive, Delta = 14.2

9. Medications Prescribed (12 Month Visit)

10. Adverse Events • † Symptom experienced over past 30 days from HRQL sample of • N=969 participants assessed at 12, 36, and 48 months post-randomization

11. Clinical Parameters assessed at last clinic visit

12. Primary & Secondary Outcomes Also examined Fatal/Nonfatal HF (HR=0.94, p=0.67), a composite of fatal coronary events, nonfatal MI and unstable angina (HR=0.94, p=0.50) and a composite of the primary outcome, revascularization and unstable angina (HR=0.95, p=0.40)

13. Primary Outcome Nonfatal MI, Nonfatal Stroke or CVD Death HR = 0.88 95% CI (0.73-1.06)

14. Nonfatal Stroke Total Stroke HR = 0.63 95% CI (0.41-0.96) HR = 0.59 95% CI (0.39-0.89)

15. Stroke Results • Intensive BP management reduced the rate of two closely correlated secondary end points: total stroke (p=0.01) and nonfatal stroke (p=0.03). • Assuming that this finding was real, the number needed to treat to the lower SBP level to prevent one stroke over 5 years was 89. • These effects would be consistent with meta-analyses summarizing the impact of a 10 mm Hg reduction in SBP on strokes from observational studies (relative risk=0.64) and drug treatment trials (relative risk=0.59).

16. Primary Outcome by Pre-defined Subgroups Also examined DBP tertiles (p=0.70) and number of screening meds (p=0.44)

17. Conclusions • The ACCORD BP trial evaluated the effect of targeting a SBP goal of 120 mm Hg, compared to a goal of 140 mm Hg, in patients with type 2 diabetes at increased cardiovascular risk. • The results provide no conclusive evidence that the intensive BP control strategy reduces the rate of a composite of major CVD events in such patients.

18. Published online March 14, 2010