Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (CPPT)
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
1989-10-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
To determine whether reduction of cholesterol by drug therapy significantly lowered the
atherosclerotic coronary heart disease rate in a group of hypercholesterolemic but otherwise
healthy men.
Total dollars spent on the CPPT from June 1973 were $142,250,000. We do not have a
year-by-year breakdown.