CONVINCE: Colchicine for prevention of vascular inflammation in non-cardioembolic stroke

Clinical Practice Research Unit (CPRU)

CONVINCE is a randomised clinical trial of low dose colchicine for secondary prevention after stroke.

Accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation is of key importance to the destabilisation of atherosclerotic plaques. Colchicine shows anti-inflammatory effects mediated through a reduction in macrophage/monocyte activity leading to reduction in inflammatory changes which may destabilise arterial plaques and result in thromboembolism from the plaques.

The CONVINCE study is randomising participants post non-cardioembolic stoke or high-risk TIA to receive usual care or usual care plus 500 micrograms of colchicine per day. The study aims to find if adding daily low-dose colchicine to usual care shows a reduction in recurrence of non-fatal ischaemic stroke, TIA, myocardial infarction, hospitalisation for unstable angina, cardiac arrest and vascular death after ischaemic stroke between the two arms of the study.

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Project Lead/Contact

  • Chief Investigator Global: Professor Peter Kelley, University College Dublin Clinical Research Centre, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.
  • Chief Investigator UK: Dr Chris Price, Clinical Reader, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University UK.
  • Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit Contact: Mrs Denise Forshaw, Principal Trial Manager, dforshaw@uclan.ac.uk, 01772 893629.
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Project Staff

  • Miss Alexandra Haig - Senior Trials Assistant
  • Miss Alison Gibbon - Trials Assistant
  • Miss Carole Bruce - Data Coordinator

Clients or Funders

Health Research Board of Ireland

Timeline

2016 - 2021