
POWERFUL LDL-C REDUCTION AND REAL-WORLD ADHERENCE FOR LEQVIO®1,2
Pivotal Trials
In ORION-10 (N=1561) on top of a maximally tolerated statin, LEQVIO demonstrated:
52% LDL-C reduction in patients with ASCVD vs placebo at month 17 (95% CI: -56%, -49%; P<0.0001)1
84% of patients achieved LDL-C target* compared with 18% of patients on placebo at month 173
Results were similar in patients with ASCVD or those at increased risk of CVD† in ORION-11.1
Study Design: ORION-10 (N=1561) & ORION-11 (N=1617) were multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, 18-month, phase 3 trials in patients with established ASCVD (ORION-10 and ORION-11) or increased risk for CVD† (ORION-11). Patients were taking a maximally tolerated statin with or without other lipid-modifying therapy and required additional LDL-C reduction. The primary efficacy measure was the percentage change in LDL-C from baseline to day 510.1,4
*LDL-C target was <70 mg/dL for patients with ASCVD.1
†Factors that increase risk of CVD include HeFH, T2DM, or 10-year risk of ≥20%.4
Real-World Adherence
Real-world adherence for LEQVIO vs PCSK9 mAbs2‡
Adherence matters: 12-month real-world adherence and persistence study for LEQVIO2‡§
- LEQVIO is HCP administered. Therefore, claims ensure patients received the injection1
- Evolocumab and alirocumab claims do not confirm self-administration, so PDC for PCSK9 mAbs may be overestimated2,5,6‖
‡The comparison pertains only to differences in adherence or persistence as defined by this analysis and should not be considered a comparison of efficacy or safety.
Study Design: A retrospective, observational real-world study evaluating 12-month adherence and persistence for newly-initiated patients on LEQVIO (N=852), evolocumab (N=27171), and alirocumab (N=8878) using administrative claims databases.¶ Adherence was defined as the proportion of days covered (PDC)‖; fully adherent patients were defined as having a PDC of ≥0.8. Persistence was defined as patients on therapy for 12 months after index date with ≤90 days gap for LEQVIO and ≤60 days gap for evolocumab and alirocumab between last day of supply and start of the next prescription.2
Limitations: The study was conducted using administrative claims data (collected for non-research purposes), with limited details on clinical variables and susceptibility to missing data and coding-related errors. Clinical characteristics and medications were captured during the 12 months prior to the initiation period; anything beyond the 12-month period was not observable. LEQVIO is HCP-administered; therefore, claims ensure patients received the injection, whereas evolocumab and alirocumab claims do not confirm self-administration, thus PDC for PCSK9 mAbs may be over-estimated.2‖
§The allowable dosing window for all treatments was added as per prescribing information. For LEQVIO +90 days and for evolocumab and alirocumab +7 days.2
‖PDC calculates the proportion of days a patient has access to their prescribed medication over a defined period of interest, which was 12 months for this study.2
¶Komodo Health, a nationally representative longitudinal database that captures 330 million patients in the US, from open and closed administrative databases, was utilized from January 2021 to October 2023.2
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