ACC.24: The TACT2 Trial

ACC 24 - In this video, Dr Gervasio L Lamas (Mount Sinai Medical Center, US) joins us onsite to discuss the findings from the TACT2 study of chelation therapy in post-myocardial infarction patients with diabetes (NCT02733185).
The Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy 2 (TACT2) study is a randomized, double blind factorial clinical trial, aiming to determine if chelation-based strategy increases the time to the first occurrence of all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, stroke, coronary revascularization or hospitalisation for unstable angina as compared to placebo. This is a 2x2 factorial trial, testing 40-weekly edetate disodium-based chelation infusions and twice daily high-dose oral multivitamins and minerals. 1000 patients with diabetes were enrolled into the study.
Findings showed that EDTA chelation produced a more than 60% reduction in blood lead levels, however, it did not result in a significant clinical benefit on the primary or secondary endpoints, or on all-cause mortality.
Recorded onsite at the ACC Conference in Atlanta, 2024.
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