Got an invite to a clinical trial

The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled (corn oil), parallel group design that will enroll approximately 13,000 patients with hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL and high risk for CVD to be randomized 1:1 to either corn oil + statin or Epanova + statin, once daily, for approximately 3-5 years as determined when the number of MACE outcomes is reached.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02104817

Eddie wrote:I heard they wanted to do a study on you, to find out how high your pulse went, when it came around to your turn to buy a round of drinks. You have used every excuse under the sun to get out of paying. I hope they have a defibrillator on standby when you get the bill.

chris c wrote:Sounds fishy to me (Epanova sounds suspiciously like prescription fish oil). 

Even more fishy is the use of corn oil as the placebo, I was just rereading something on the original Rose Corn Oil trial which found it INCREASED CVD risk.

You should write back and tell them your current trigs and HDL and how you achieved them and ask to be studied for that.

chris c wrote:Well at least you were invited and offered expenses, I was put in a trial without my permission or knowledge, or so I assume when they took me off the Losartan I'd been on for years and put me on Olmesartan for six months, then switched me back again.

Send them David Unwin's number?

graham64 wrote:
I would think there are lots of diabetics unwittingly opted in to trials especially of the latest BG medications that don't have long term safety data