Patients with diabetes are known to be at high risk for developing cardiovascular disease, but what are the best ways to manage and treat these patients? That question is at the heart of the FREEDOM Trial (Future Revascularization Evaluation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Optimal Management of Multivessel Disease), funded by a $25 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.

One of the largest grants the NHLBI has ever funded, the FREEDOM trial is led by Dr. Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor and Director of both the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and the Marie-Jos�e and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health.

The multi-center study, which will focus on patients with diabetes and multi-vessel coronary disease, will recruit 2,400 patients to participate in a clinical trial to determine whether percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI - also known as balloon angioplasty) with drug-eluting stenting is more or less effective than the standard of care, coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).

In addition, the study will recruit 2,000 other patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease to be part of a registry that will allow the scope of the trial and their related analysis to be broadened.

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