“…All patients randomized in these trials were high risk patients with a history of cardiovascular disease and/ or diabetes mellitus (54−56), nephropathy (33,35), documented coronary heart disease (41, 43, 44, 46−49, 57, 58) or a previous cerebrovascular accident (51,59). All (33,41,44,49,54,55,58) but 5 (43,46,48,51,57) of the placebo-controlled secondary prevention trials had a composite primary endpoint (Tables 2 and 3). In 3 trials (41), the composite endpoint included coronary (41,58) or peripheral (44) revascularization procedures.…”