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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT00519363
Date of registration: 20/08/2007
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: The Center for Rheumatic Disease, Allergy, & Immunology
Public title: Statins and Lupus: Effects of Statins on Clinical Lupus Parameters, Serological Markers and Toll-like Receptors
Scientific title: Statins and Lupus: Effects of Statins on Clinical Lupus Parameters, Serological Markers and Toll-like Receptors.
Date of first enrolment: September 2007
Target sample size: 15
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00519363
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment  
Phase:  Phase 1/Phase 2
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Nabih I Abdou, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  The Center for Rheumatic Disease, Allergy, and Immunology
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age 18-60, female

- have at least four ACR criteria for SLE

- SLEDAI score > 4

- LDL cholesterol level from 100-190mg/dl

Exclusion Criteria:

- Pregnant, lactating, or wanting to become pregnant

- unable to take atorvastatin due to allergy, liver disease, elevated lever function
test, myositis, or eleveated CPK

- already on lipid lowering therapy

- participating in another lupus study

- on drugs such as: amiodarone, clarithromycin, clclosporine, erythromycin,
itraconazole, ketoconazole, nefazodone, verapamil, protease inhibitors, niacin,
digoxin, cholestryrmine, colestipol

- has a diagnosis of myositis



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 60 Years
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Intervention(s)
Drug: atorvastatin
Primary Outcome(s)
decrease the SLEDAI level of female lupus patients, down regulate the TLR 2,4, and 9. [Time Frame: 3 months]
Secondary Outcome(s)
lower lipid levels in female lupus patients [Time Frame: 3 months]
Secondary ID(s)
Hospital
Saint
06-316
Grant
Luke's
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Saint Luke's Health System
Ethics review
Results
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