eprintid: 155304
rev_number: 19
eprint_status: archive
userid: 37347
dir: disk0/00/15/53/04
datestamp: 2018-02-09 12:44:51
lastmod: 2020-05-28 18:01:30
status_changed: 2018-02-09 12:44:51
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 37347
creators_name: Makin, Stephen D.J.
creators_name: Doubal, Fergus N.
creators_name: Quinn, Terence J.
creators_name: Bath, Philip M.W.
creators_name: Dennis, Martin S.
creators_name: Wardlaw, Joanna M.
creators_orcid: 0000-0003-1401-0181
title: The effect of different combinations of vascular, dependency and cognitive endpoints on the sample size required to detect a treatment effect in trials of treatments to improve outcome after lacunar and non-lacunar ischaemic stroke
ispublished: pub
divisions: 25200000
full_text_status: public
note: The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant
088134/Z/09/A), the Scottish Funding Council and the Chief
Scientist Office, Scotland, through the Scottish Imaging
Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (‘SINAPSE’)
and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme SVDs@Target under grant agreement
666881. FD and TQ are funded by the Stroke Association/
Garfield Weston Foundation and Stroke Association/Chief
Scientist Office Senior Lectureships respectively. PMB is
Stroke Association Professor of Stroke Medicine and is a
NIHR Senior Investigator. The work was supported by the
Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Network of Excellence in
Small Vessel Disease ref no. 16 CVD 05, and the Horizon
2020 Programme PHC-03-15, project No 666881, ‘SVDs
@Target.’
abstract: Background:
Endpoints that are commonly used in trials of moderate/severe stroke may be less frequent in patients with minor, non-disabling stroke thus inflating sample sizes. We tested whether trial efficiency might be improved with composite endpoints.
Methods:
We prospectively recruited patients with lacunar and minor non-lacunar ischaemic stroke (NIHSS ≤ 7) and assessed recurrent vascular events (stroke, transient ischaemic attack (TIA), ischemic heart disease (IHD)), modified Rankin Score (mRS) and cognitive testing with the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE-R) one year post-stroke. For a potential secondary prevention randomised controlled trial (RCT), we estimated sample sizes using individual or combined outcomes, at power 80% (and 90%), alpha 5%, required to detect a relative 10% risk reduction.
Results:
Amongst 264 patients (118 lacunar, 146 non-lacunar), at one year, 30/264 (11%) patients had a recurrent vascular event, 5 (2%) had died, 3 (1%) had clinically-diagnosed dementia, 53/264 (20%) had mRS ≥ 3 and 29/158 (19%) had ACE-R ≤ 82 (57 could not attend for cognitive testing). For a potential trial, at 80% power, using mRS ≥ 3 alone would require n > 5000 participants, recurrent vascular events alone n = 9908 participants, and a composite of any recurrent vascular event, ACE-R ≤ 82, dementia or mRS ≥ 2 (present in 56% of patients) n = 2224 patients. However, including cognition increased missing data. Results were similar for lacunar and non-lacunar minor ischaemic stroke.
Conclusions:
Composite outcomes including vascular events, dependency, and cognition reduce sample size and increase efficiency, feasibility, and relevance to patients of RCTs in minor ischaemic stroke. Efficiency might be improved further with more practical cognitive test strategies.
date: 2018-03
date_type: published
publication: European Stroke Journal
volume: 3
number: 1
publisher: SAGE Publications
pagerange: 66-73
id_number: 10.1177/2396987317728854
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2396-9873
copyright_holders: Copyright © 2017 European Stroke Organisation
prior: First published in European Stroke Journal 3(1): 66-73
repro: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License
uniqueid: glaseprints:2018-155304
issn_online: 2396-9881
item_issues2_id: duplicate_doi_200089
item_issues2_id: duplicate_title_200089
item_issues2_type: duplicate_doi
item_issues2_type: duplicate_title
item_issues2_description: Duplicate DOI to
The effect of different combinations of vascular, dependency and cognitive endpoints on the sample size required to detect a treatment effect in trials of treatments to improve outcome after lacunar and non-lacunar ischaemic stroke
User Workarea,
Publications Router
-
[ Manage ] [ Compare & Merge ] [ Acknowledge ]
item_issues2_description: Duplicate Title to
The effect of different combinations of vascular, dependency and cognitive endpoints on the sample size required to detect a treatment effect in trials of treatments to improve outcome after lacunar and non-lacunar ischaemic stroke
User Workarea,
Publications Router
-
[ Manage ] [ Compare & Merge ] [ Acknowledge ]
item_issues2_timestamp: 2019-10-25 09:49:13
item_issues2_timestamp: 2019-10-25 09:49:13
item_issues2_status: discovered
item_issues2_status: discovered
hoa_compliant: 9205
hoa_ref_pan: AB
hoa_date_acc: 2017-07-24
hoa_date_pub: 2017-09-05
hoa_date_foa: 2018-02-09
hoa_version_fcd: VoR
hoa_exclude: FALSE
hoa_gold: TRUE
oa_research_materials_ack: Yes
rioxx2_license_ref_input_license_ref: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxx2_license_ref_input_start_date: 2017-09-05
rioxx2_apc_input: unknown
citation: Makin, S. D.J. , Doubal, F. N., Quinn, T. J. , Bath, P. M.W., Dennis, M. S. and Wardlaw, J. M. (2018) The effect of different combinations of vascular, dependency and cognitive endpoints on the sample size required to detect a treatment effect in trials of treatments to improve outcome after lacunar and non-lacunar ischaemic stroke. European Stroke Journal , 3(1), pp. 66-73. (doi: 10.1177/2396987317728854 )
document_url: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/155304/7/155304.pdf