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Graul EL, Nordon C, Rhodes K, Marshall J, Menon S, Kallis C, Ioannides AE, Whittaker HR, Peters NS, Quint JK. Temporal Risk of Nonfatal Cardiovascular Events After Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation: A Population-based Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2024; 209:960-972. [PMID: 38127850 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202307-1122oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Rationale: Cardiovascular events after chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations are recognized. Studies to date have been post hoc analyses of trials, did not differentiate exacerbation severity, included death in the cardiovascular outcome, or had insufficient power to explore individual outcomes temporally.Objectives: We explore temporal relationships between moderate and severe exacerbations and incident, nonfatal hospitalized cardiovascular events in a primary care-derived COPD cohort.Methods: We included people with COPD in England from 2014 to 2020, from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum primary care database. The index date was the date of first COPD exacerbation or, for those without exacerbations, date upon eligibility. We determined composite and individual cardiovascular events (acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmia, heart failure, ischemic stroke, and pulmonary hypertension) from linked hospital data. Adjusted Cox regression models were used to estimate average and time-stratified adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs).Measurements and Main Results: Among 213,466 patients, 146,448 (68.6%) had any exacerbation; 119,124 (55.8%) had moderate exacerbations, and 27,324 (12.8%) had severe exacerbations. A total of 40,773 cardiovascular events were recorded. There was an immediate period of cardiovascular relative rate after any exacerbation (1-14 d; aHR, 3.19 [95% confidence interval (CI), 2.71-3.76]), followed by progressively declining yet maintained effects, elevated after one year (aHR, 1.84 [95% CI, 1.78-1.91]). Hazard ratios were highest 1-14 days after severe exacerbations (aHR, 14.5 [95% CI, 12.2-17.3]) but highest 14-30 days after moderate exacerbations (aHR, 1.94 [95% CI, 1.63-2.31]). Cardiovascular outcomes with the greatest two-week effects after a severe exacerbation were arrhythmia (aHR, 12.7 [95% CI, 10.3-15.7]) and heart failure (aHR, 8.31 [95% CI, 6.79-10.2]).Conclusions: Cardiovascular events after moderate COPD exacerbations occur slightly later than after severe exacerbations; heightened relative rates remain beyond one year irrespective of severity. The period immediately after an exacerbation presents a critical opportunity for clinical intervention and treatment optimization to prevent future cardiovascular events.
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- Medical and Scientific Affairs, AstraZeneca, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Public Health and
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Public Health and
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Public Health and
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Public Health and
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Vogelmeier CF, Rhodes K, Garbe E, Abram M, Halbach M, Müllerová H, Kossack N, Timpel P, Kolb N, Nordon C. Elucidating the risk of cardiopulmonary consequences of an exacerbation of COPD: results of the EXACOS-CV study in Germany. BMJ Open Respir Res 2024; 11:e002153. [PMID: 38555102 PMCID: PMC10982767 DOI: 10.1136/bmjresp-2023-002153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represent a period of vulnerability. This study explored the association between time periods following an exacerbation and the risk of severe cardiovascular (CV) events or death in Germany. METHODS A longitudinal cohort study was conducted using routinely collected healthcare data. Individuals with COPD were identified between 2014 and 2018. Exposure was moderate or severe exacerbation of COPD. Periods at risk were the 1-7, 8-14, 15-30, 31-180 and 181-365 days following each exacerbation onset occurring after cohort entry. The main outcome of interest was the first hospitalisation for a CV event or all-cause death. Time-dependent Cox proportional hazards models estimated the HR for the association between subperiods versus periods outside exacerbations, and the risk of outcome. RESULTS Among 126 795 patients, 58 720 (46.3%) exacerbated at least once and 48 982 (38.6%) experienced at least one CV event or died during a median follow-up of 36 months. The rate of outcome was increased during 1-7 days following a severe exacerbation onset (HR 15.84, 95% CI 15.26 to 16.45), and remained elevated for up to a year (181-365 days HR 1.17, 95% CI 1.11 to 1.23). In the 1-7 days following a moderate exacerbation onset, the increased rate was HR 1.17, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.31). CONCLUSION The risk of a CV event or death increased in time periods following both moderate and severe exacerbations of COPD, emphasising the need to promptly manage the risk of CV events following the onset of an exacerbation, to prevent exacerbations of any severity, and more generally, to address the cardiopulmonary risk in patients with COPD.
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- Claus F Vogelmeier
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
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- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany
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- WIG2 GmbH Scientific Institute for Health Economics and Health System Research, Leipzig, Germany
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- WIG2 GmbH Scientific Institute for Health Economics and Health System Research, Leipzig, Germany
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- ZEG - Berlin Center for Epidemiology and Health Research GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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Daniels K, Lanes S, Tave A, Pollack MF, Mannino DM, Criner G, Neikirk A, Rhodes K, Feigler N, Nordon C. Risk of Death and Cardiovascular Events Following an Exacerbation of COPD: The EXACOS-CV US Study. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 2024; 19:225-241. [PMID: 38259591 PMCID: PMC10802125 DOI: 10.2147/copd.s438893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Purpose This study estimated the magnitude and duration of risk of cardiovascular events and mortality following acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), and whether risks varied by number and severity of exacerbation in a commercially insured population in the United States. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study of newly diagnosed COPD patients ≥40 years old in the Healthcare Integrated Research Database from 2012 to 2019. Patients experiencing exacerbations comprised the "exacerbation cohort". Moderate exacerbations were outpatient visits with contemporaneous antibiotic or glucocorticoid administration; severe exacerbations were emergency department visits or hospitalizations for AECOPD. Follow-up started on the exacerbation date. Distribution of time between diagnosis and first exacerbation was used to assign index dates to the "unexposed" cohort. Cox proportional hazards models estimated risks of a cardiovascular event or death following an exacerbation adjusted for medical and prescription history and stratified by follow-up time, type of cardiovascular event, exacerbation severity, and rank of exacerbation (first, second, or third). Results Among 435,925 patients, 170,236 experienced ≥1 exacerbation. Risk of death was increased for 2 years following an exacerbation and was highest during the first 30 days (any exacerbation hazard ratio (HR)=1.79, 95% CI=1.58-2.04; moderate HR=1.22, 95% CI=1.04-1.43; severe HR=5.09, 95% CI=4.30-6.03). Risks of cardiovascular events were increased for 1 year following an AECOPD and highest in the first 30-days (any exacerbation HR=1.34, 95% CI=1.23-1.46; moderate HR=1.23 (95% CI 1.12-1.35); severe HR=1.93 (95% CI=1.67-2.22)). Each subsequent AECOPD was associated with incrementally higher rates of both death and cardiovascular events. Conclusion Risk of death and cardiovascular events was greatest in the first 30 days and rose with subsequent exacerbations. Risks were elevated for 1-2 years following moderate and severe exacerbations, highlighting a sustained increased cardiopulmonary risk associated with exacerbations.
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- Safety and Epidemiology, Carelon Research, Wilmington, DE, USA
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- Safety and Epidemiology, Carelon Research, Wilmington, DE, USA
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- College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Safety and Epidemiology, Carelon Research, Wilmington, DE, USA
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- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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Hawkins NM, Nordon C, Rhodes K, Talukdar M, McMullen S, Ekwaru P, Pham T, Randhawa AK, Sin DD. Heightened long-term cardiovascular risks after exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Heart 2024:heartjnl-2023-323487. [PMID: 38182279 DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2023-323487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV) events following an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS This retrospective cohort study identified patients with COPD using administrative data from Alberta, Canada from 2014 to 2019. Exposure periods were 12 months following moderate or severe exacerbations; the reference period was time preceding a first exacerbation. The primary outcome was the composite of all-cause death or a first hospitalisation for acute coronary syndrome, heart failure (HF), arrhythmia or cerebral ischaemia. Time-dependent Cox regression models estimated covariate-adjusted risks associated with six exposure subperiods following exacerbation. RESULTS Among 1 42 787 patients (mean age 68.1 years and 51.7% men) 61 981 (43.4%) experienced at least one exacerbation and 34 068 (23.9%) died during median follow-up of 64 months. The primary outcome occurred in 43 564 (30.5%) patients with an incidence rate prior to exacerbation of 5.43 (95% CI 5.36 to 5.50) per 100 person-years. This increased to 95.61 per 100 person-years in the 1-7 days postexacerbation (adjusted HR 15.86, 95% CI 15.17 to 16.58) and remained increased for up to 1 year. The risk of both the composite and individual CV events was increased following either a moderate or a severe exacerbation, though greater and more prolonged following severe exacerbation. The highest magnitude of increased risk was observed for HF decompensation (1-7 days, HR 72.34, 95% CI 64.43 to 81.22). CONCLUSION Moderate and severe COPD exacerbations are independent risk factors for adverse CV events, especially HF decompensation. The impact of optimising COPD management on CV outcomes should be evaluated.
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- Nathaniel M Hawkins
- Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, Division of Cardiology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Medlior Health Outcomes Research Ltd, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Medlior Health Outcomes Research Ltd, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation and Department of Medicine (Respirology), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Swart KMA, Baak BN, Lemmens L, Penning-van Beest FJA, Bengtsson C, Lobier M, Hoti F, Vojinovic D, van Burk L, Rhodes K, Garbe E, Herings RMC, Nordon C, Simons SO. Risk of cardiovascular events after an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from the EXACOS-CV cohort study using the PHARMO Data Network in the Netherlands. Respir Res 2023; 24:293. [PMID: 37990197 PMCID: PMC10662240 DOI: 10.1186/s12931-023-02601-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND People living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have an increased risk of experiencing cardiovascular (CV) events, particularly after an exacerbation. Such CV burden is not yet known for incident COPD patients. We examined the risk of severe CV events in incident COPD patients in periods following either moderate and/or severe exacerbations. METHODS Persons aged ≥ 40 years with an incident COPD diagnosis from the PHARMO Data Network were included. Exposed time periods included 1-7, 8-14, 15-30, 31-180 and 181-365 days following an exacerbation. Moderate exacerbations were defined as those managed in outpatient settings; severe exacerbations as those requiring hospitalisation. The outcome was a composite of time to first severe CV event (acute coronary syndrome, heart failure decompensation, cerebral ischaemia, or arrhythmia) or death. Hazard ratios (HR) were estimated for association between each exposed period and outcome. RESULTS 8020 patients with newly diagnosed COPD were identified. 2234 patients (28%) had ≥ 1 exacerbation, 631 patients (8%) had a non-fatal CV event, and 461 patients (5%) died during a median follow-up of 36 months. The risk of experiencing the composite outcome was increased following a moderate/severe exacerbation as compared to time periods of stable disease [range of HR: from 15.3 (95% confidence interval 11.8-20.0) in days 1-7 to 1.3 (1.0-1.8) in days 181-365]. After a moderate exacerbation, the risk was increased over the first 180 days [HR 2.5 (1.3-4.8) in days 1-7 to 1.6 (1.3-2.1) in days 31-180]. After a severe exacerbation, the risk increased substantially and remained higher over the year following the exacerbation [HR 48.6 (36.9-64.0) in days 1-7 down to 1.6 (1.0-2.6) in days 181-365]. Increase in risk concerned all categories of severe CV events. CONCLUSIONS Among incident COPD patients, we observed a substantial risk increase of severe CV events or all-cause death following either a moderate or severe exacerbation of COPD. Increase in risk was highest in the initial period following an exacerbation. These findings highlight the significant cardiopulmonary burden among people living with COPD even with a new diagnosis.
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- Karin M A Swart
- PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany
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- PHARMO Institute for Drug Outcomes Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Genofre E, Carstens D, DeBacker W, Muchmore P, Panettieri RA, Rhodes K, Shih VH, Trudo F. The effects of benralizumab on airway geometry and dynamics in severe eosinophilic asthma: a single-arm study design exploring a functional respiratory imaging approach. Respir Res 2023; 24:121. [PMID: 37131265 PMCID: PMC10154186 DOI: 10.1186/s12931-023-02415-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA) is characterised by elevated blood/sputum eosinophil counts and airway inflammation, which can lead to mucus plug-mediated airway obstruction, increased exacerbation frequency, declines in lung function, and death. Benralizumab targets the alpha-subunit of the interleukin-5 receptor found on eosinophils, leading to rapid and near complete eosinophil depletion. This is expected to result in reduced eosinophilic inflammation, reduced mucus plugging and improved airway patency and airflow distribution. METHODS BURAN is an interventional, single-arm, open-label, uncontrolled, prospective, multicentre study during which participants will receive three 30 mg subcutaneous doses of benralizumab at 4-week intervals. This study will use functional respiratory imaging (FRI), a novel, quantitative method of assessing patients' lung structure and function based on detailed, three-dimensional models of the airways, with direct comparison of images taken at Weeks 0 and 13. Patients aged ≥ 18 years with established SEA who may be receiving oral corticosteroids and/or other asthma controller medications, who are inadequately controlled on inhaled corticosteroid-long-acting β2-agonist therapies and who have had ≥ 2 asthma exacerbations in the previous 12 months will be included. The objectives of BURAN are to describe changes in airway geometry and dynamics, measured by specific image-based airway volume and other FRI endpoints, following benralizumab therapy. Outcomes will be evaluated using descriptive statistics. Changes in FRI parameters, mucus plugging scores and central/peripheral ratio will be quantified as mean percent change from baseline (Week 0) to Week 13 (± 5 days) and statistical significance will be evaluated using paired t-tests. Relationships between FRI parameters/mucus plugging scores and conventional lung function measurements at baseline will be assessed with linear regression analyses for associations between outcomes, scatterplots to visualise the relationship, and correlation coefficients (Spearman's rank and Pearson's) to quantify the strength of these associations. CONCLUSIONS The BURAN study will represent one of the first applications of FRI-a novel, non-invasive, highly sensitive method of assessing lung structure, function and health-in the field of biologic respiratory therapies. Findings from this study will increase understanding of cellular-level eosinophil depletion mechanisms and improvements in lung function and asthma control following benralizumab treatment. Trial registration EudraCT: 2022-000152-11 and NCT05552508.
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- Eduardo Genofre
- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, US, AstraZeneca LP, 1800 Concord Pike, A1C, Wilmington, DE, 19850, USA.
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- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, US, AstraZeneca LP, 1800 Concord Pike, A1C, Wilmington, DE, 19850, USA
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- FLUIDDA, New York, NY, USA
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Rutgers Institute for Translational Medicine and Science, Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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- BioPharmaceuticals Medical, US, AstraZeneca LP, 1800 Concord Pike, A1C, Wilmington, DE, 19850, USA
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Nordon C, Rhodes K, Quint JK, Vogelmeier CF, Simons SO, Hawkins NM, Marshall J, Ouwens M, Garbe E, Müllerová H. EXAcerbations of COPD and their OutcomeS on CardioVascular diseases (EXACOS-CV) Programme: protocol of multicountry observational cohort studies. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e070022. [PMID: 37185641 PMCID: PMC10151875 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the risk of certain cardiovascular (CV) events is increased by threefold to fivefold in the year following acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD), compared with a non-exacerbation period. While the effect of severe AECOPD is well established, the relationship of moderate exacerbation or prior exacerbation to elevated risk of CV events is less clear. We will conduct cohort studies in multiple countries to further characterise the association between AECOPD and CV events. METHODS AND ANALYSIS Retrospective longitudinal cohort studies will be conducted within routinely collected electronic healthcare records or claims databases. The study cohorts will include patients meeting inclusion criteria for COPD between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2018. Moderate exacerbation is defined as an outpatient visit and/or medication dispensation/prescription for exacerbation; severe exacerbation is defined as hospitalisation for COPD. The primary outcomes of interest are the time to (1) first hospitalisation for a CV event (including acute coronary syndrome, heart failure, arrhythmias or cerebral ischaemia) since cohort entry or (2) death. Time-dependent Cox proportional hazards models will compare the hazard of a CV event between exposed periods following exacerbation (split into these periods: 1-7, 8-14, 15-30, 31-180 and 181-365 days) and the unexposed reference time period, adjusted on time-fixed and time-varying confounders. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION Studies have been approved in Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, where an institutional review board is mandated. For each study, the results will be published in peer-reviewed journals.
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- Clementine Nordon
- Medical and Payer Evidence, BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical and Payer Evidence, BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Respiratory Epidemiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Medical and Payer Evidence, BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical and Payer Evidence, BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Clinical Epidemiology Group, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany
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- Medical and Payer Evidence, BioPharmaceuticals Medical, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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Rhodes K, Jenkins M, de Nigris E, Aurivillius M, Ouwens M. Relationship between risk, cumulative burden of exacerbations and mortality in patients with COPD: modelling analysis using data from the ETHOS study. BMC Med Res Methodol 2022; 22:150. [PMID: 35614467 PMCID: PMC9134588 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-022-01616-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The major drivers of cost-effectiveness for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) therapies are the occurrence of exacerbations and deaths. Exacerbations, including acute and long-term events, can cause worsening of COPD and lead to an increased risk of further exacerbations, and ultimately may elevate the risk of death. In contrast to this, health economic models are based on COPD severity progression. In this post hoc analysis of the ETHOS study, we focus on the progression of COPD due to exacerbations and deaths. METHODS We fitted semi-parametric and fully parametric multi-state Markov models with the following five progressive states: State 1, no exacerbation; State 2, 1 moderate exacerbation; State 3, ≥ 2 moderate exacerbations; State 4, ≥ 1 severe exacerbations; State 5, death. The models only allowed a patient to transition to a worsened health state, and transitions did not necessarily have to be to the next adjacent state. We used the multi-state models to analyse data from ETHOS, a phase III, 52-week study assessing the efficacy and safety of triple therapy with budesonide/glycopyrronium/formoterol fumarate dihydrate in moderate-to-very severe COPD. RESULTS The Weibull multi-state Markov model showed good fit of the data. In line with clinical evidence, we found a higher mortality risk after a severe exacerbation (11.4-fold relative ratio increase [95% CI, 7.7-17.0], 6.4-fold increase [95% CI, 3.8-10.8] and 5.4-fold increase [95% CI, 2.9-10.3] relative to no exacerbations, 1 moderate exacerbation or ≥ 2 moderate exacerbations, respectively). One moderate exacerbation increased mortality risk 1.8-fold (95% CI, 1.1-2.9) vs no exacerbations. We also found a higher risk of severe exacerbation and mortality following ≥ 2 moderate exacerbations. CONCLUSION Multi-state modelling of patients with COPD in ETHOS found an acute and chronic effect of severe exacerbations on mortality risk. Risk was also increased after a moderate exacerbation. Clinical management with effective pharmacotherapies should be optimised to avoid even moderate exacerbations. Modelling with exacerbations could be an alternative to current COPD models focused on disease progression. TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT02465567.
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- Kirsty Rhodes
- Medical & Payer Evidence Statistics, Real-World Science and Digital, BioPharmaceuticals Medical Evidence, AstraZeneca, Academy House, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PA, UK.
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- Medical & Payer Evidence Statistics, Real-World Science and Digital, BioPharmaceuticals Medical Evidence, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Vergote I, Ray-Coquard I, Anderson DM, Cantuaria G, Colombo N, Garnier-Tixidre C, Gilbert L, Harter P, Hettle R, Lorusso D, Mäenpää J, Marth C, Matsumoto K, Ouwens M, Poveda A, Raspagliesi F, Rhodes K, Rubio Pérez MJ, Shapira-Frommer R, Shikama A, Sikorska M, Moore K, DiSilvestro P. Population-adjusted indirect treatment comparison of the SOLO1 and PAOLA-1/ENGOT-ov25 trials evaluating maintenance olaparib or bevacizumab or the combination of both in newly diagnosed, advanced BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer. Eur J Cancer 2021; 157:415-423. [PMID: 34597975 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 08/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND In the absence of randomised head-to-head trials, we conducted a population-adjusted indirect treatment comparison (PA-ITC) of phase III trial data to evaluate the relative efficacy and safety of maintenance olaparib and bevacizumab alone and in combination in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer and a BRCA mutation (BRCAm). METHODS An unanchored PA-ITC was performed on investigator-assessed progression-free survival (PFS) data. Individual patient data from SOLO1 (olaparib versus placebo) and from BRCA-mutated patients in PAOLA-1/ENGOT-ov25 (olaparib plus bevacizumab versus placebo plus bevacizumab) were pooled. Each arm of PAOLA-1 was weighted so that key baseline patient characteristics were similar to the SOLO1 cohort. Analyses were performed in patients with complete baseline data. Weighted Cox regression analysis was used to estimate the comparative efficacy of different maintenance therapy strategies, supplemented by weighted Kaplan-Meier analyses. RESULTS Data from SOLO1 patients (olaparib, n = 254; placebo, n = 126) were compared with data from BRCA-mutated PAOLA-1 patients (olaparib plus bevacizumab, n = 151; placebo plus bevacizumab, n = 71). Adding bevacizumab to olaparib was associated with a numerical improvement in PFS compared with olaparib alone (hazard ratio [HR] 0.71; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.45-1.09). Statistically significant improvements in PFS were seen with olaparib alone versus placebo plus bevacizumab (HR 0.48; 95% CI 0.30-0.75), olaparib plus bevacizumab versus placebo (0.23; 0.14-0.34), and placebo plus bevacizumab versus placebo (0.65; 0.43-0.95). CONCLUSIONS Results of this hypothesis-generating PA-ITC analysis support the use of maintenance olaparib alone or with bevacizumab in patients with newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer and a BRCAm.
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- Ignace Vergote
- University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven Cancer Institute, Leuven, Belgium, European Union; Belgian and Luxembourg Gynaecological Oncology Group (BGOG), Belgium, European Union.
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- Centre Léon BERARD and University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Groupe d'Investigateurs Nationaux pour l'Etude des Cancers Ovariens (GINECO), France
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- Metro Minnesota Community Oncology Research Consortium, St Louis Park, MN, USA
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- University of Milan-Bicocca and Istituto Europeo di Oncologia IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Mario Negri Gynecologic Oncology Group (MANGO), Italy
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- Groupe d'Investigateurs Nationaux pour l'Etude des Cancers Ovariens (GINECO), France; Institut Daniel Hollard, Grenoble, France
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- McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Ev. Kliniken Essen Mitte, Essen, Germany; Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie (AGO) Studiengruppe, Germany
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- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy; Multicenter Italian Trials in Ovarian Cancer and Gynecologic Malignancies (MITO), Italy
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- Tampere University and University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Nordic Society of Gynecologic Oncology (NSGO), Finland
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- Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; AGO-Austria, Austria
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- Initia Oncology, Hospital Quirónsalud, Valencia, Spain; Grupo Español de Investigación en Cáncer de Ovario (GEICO), Spain
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- Grupo Español de Investigación en Cáncer de Ovario (GEICO), Spain; Reina Sofia Hospital, Córdoba, Spain
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- University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Gynecologic Oncology Trial and Investigation Consortium (GOTIC), Japan
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- Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Shameer K, Zhang Y, Jackson D, Rhodes K, Neelufer IKA, Nampally S, Prokop A, Hutchison E, Ye J, Malkov VA, Liu F, Sabin A, Weatherall J, Duran C, Iacona RB, Khan FM, Mukhopadhyay P. Correlation Between Early Endpoints and Overall Survival in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Trial-Level Meta-Analysis. Front Oncol 2021; 11:672916. [PMID: 34381708 PMCID: PMC8351517 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.672916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Early endpoints, such as progression-free survival (PFS), are increasingly used as surrogates for overall survival (OS) to accelerate approval of novel oncology agents. Compiling trial-level data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) could help to develop a predictive framework to ascertain correlation trends between treatment effects for early and late endpoints. Through trial-level correlation and random-effects meta-regression analysis, we assessed the relationship between hazard ratio (HR) OS and (1) HR PFS and (2) odds ratio (OR) PFS at 4 and 6 months, stratified according to the mechanism of action of the investigational product. Using multiple source databases, we compiled a data set including 81 phase II-IV RCTs (35 drugs and 156 observations) of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. Low-to-moderate correlations were generally observed between treatment effects for early endpoints (based on PFS) and HR OS across trials of agents with different mechanisms of action. Moderate correlations were seen between treatment effects for HR PFS and HR OS across all trials, and in the programmed cell death-1/programmed cell death ligand-1 and epidermal growth factor receptor trial subsets. Although these results constitute an important step, caution is advised, as there are some limitations to our evaluation, and an additional patient-level analysis would be needed to establish true surrogacy.
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- Khader Shameer
- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development (R&D), AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development (R&D), AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development (R&D), AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Warsaw, Poland
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- Digital Health, Oncology Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development (R&D), AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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- Digital Health, Oncology Research and Development, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, BioPharmaceuticals Research and Development (R&D), AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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- Oncology Biometrics, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
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Edgar K, Jackson D, Rhodes K, Duffy T, Burman CF, Sharples LD. Frequentist rules for regulatory approval of subgroups in phase III trials: A fresh look at an old problem. Stat Methods Med Res 2021; 30:1725-1743. [PMID: 34077288 PMCID: PMC8411475 DOI: 10.1177/09622802211017574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
Background The number of Phase III trials that include a biomarker in design and
analysis has increased due to interest in personalised medicine. For genetic
mutations and other predictive biomarkers, the trial sample comprises two
subgroups, one of which, say B+ is known or suspected to achieve a larger treatment effect
than the other B−. Despite treatment effect heterogeneity, trials often draw
patients from both subgroups, since the lower responding B− subgroup may also gain benefit from the intervention. In
this case, regulators/commissioners must decide what constitutes sufficient
evidence to approve the drug in the B− population. Methods and Results Assuming trial analysis can be completed using generalised linear models, we
define and evaluate three frequentist decision rules for approval. For rule
one, the significance of the average treatment effect in B− should exceed a pre-defined minimum value, say
ZB−>L. For rule two, the data from the low-responding group
B− should increase statistical significance. For rule three,
the subgroup-treatment interaction should be non-significant, using type I
error chosen to ensure that estimated difference between the two subgroup
effects is acceptable. Rules are evaluated based on conditional power, given
that there is an overall significant treatment effect. We show how different
rules perform according to the distribution of patients across the two
subgroups and when analyses include additional (stratification) covariates
in the analysis, thereby conferring correlation between subgroup
effects. Conclusions When additional conditions are required for approval of a new treatment in a
lower response subgroup, easily applied rules based on minimum effect sizes
and relaxed interaction tests are available. Choice of rule is influenced by
the proportion of patients sampled from the two subgroups but less so by the
correlation between subgroup effects.
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- K Edgar
- Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Statistical Innovation, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Statistical Innovation, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Statistical Innovation, BioPharmaceutical R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Rhodes K, Madhavan B. P.115 Timing is everything: Labour epidurals and anticoagulants. Int J Obstet Anesth 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2021.103113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Jackson D, Rhodes K, Ouwens M. Alternative weighting schemes when performing matching-adjusted indirect comparisons. Res Synth Methods 2020; 12:333-346. [PMID: 33131206 DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Methods for indirect comparisons and network meta-analysis use aggregate level data from multiple studies. A very common, and closely related, scenario is where a company has individual patient data (IPD) from its own trial, but only has published aggregate data from a competitor's trial, and an indirect comparison of the treatments evaluated in these two trials is required. Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparison (MAIC) has been developed for this situation, where we use the available IPD to adjust for between-trial imbalances in the distributions of observed baseline covariates between the two trials. We extend the current MAIC methodology, where we compute the weights that satisfy the conventional method of moments and result in the largest possible effective sample size (ESS). We show that the approach proposed by Zubizarreta in a previous study can be used for this purpose. We derive a new analytical result that shows why this alternative approach provides a larger ESS than a conventional MAIC. We also derive a new formula for the maximum ESS that can be achieved, even when permitting negative weights, when adjusting for one covariate. This can be used as an easily computed new metric that quantifies the difficulty in adjusting for covariates. What is already known: MAIC is an established way to perform population adjustment in the situation where IPD is available from one trial but only aggregate level data is available from another trial, and an indirect comparison is required. However the effective sample size (ESS) can be small after making the adjustment. What is new: We show that an alternative method can result in a larger ESS. We provide new analytical results showing why this is the case. We derive a new descriptive statistic that is based on maximising the ESS that quantifies the difficulties in adjusting for particular covariates. Potential impact for RSM readers outside the authors' field: Reweighting methods for population adjustment are becoming more commonly used and their implications for research synthesis methodology is now considerable. This paper provides important new links between the theoretical literature, and the more applied research synthesis methodology literature, relating to this topic.
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- Dan Jackson
- Statistical Innovation Group, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Statistical Innovation Group, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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- Statistical Innovation Group, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK
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Vergote I, Moore K, Hettle R, Rhodes K, Ouwens M, Ray-Coquard I. Population adjusted indirect comparison of the SOLO1 and PAOLA-1/ENGOT-ov25 studies of olaparib with or without bevacizumab, bev alone and placebo in the maintenance treatment of women with newly diagnosed stage III/IV ovarian cancer with BRCA mutation. Gynecol Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.06.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Strober BJ, Elorbany R, Rhodes K, Krishnan N, Tayeb K, Battle A, Gilad Y. Dynamic genetic regulation of gene expression during cellular differentiation. Science 2019; 364:1287-1290. [PMID: 31249060 PMCID: PMC6623972 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw0040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Genetic regulation of gene expression is dynamic, as transcription can change during cell differentiation and across cell types. We mapped expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) throughout differentiation to elucidate the dynamics of genetic effects on cell type-specific gene expression. We generated time-series RNA sequencing data, capturing 16 time points during the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells to cardiomyocytes, in 19 human cell lines. We identified hundreds of dynamic eQTLs that change over time, with enrichment in enhancers of relevant cell types. We also found nonlinear dynamic eQTLs, which affect only intermediate stages of differentiation and cannot be found by using data from mature tissues. These fleeting genetic associations with gene regulation may explain some of the components of complex traits and disease. We highlight one example of a nonlinear eQTL that is associated with body mass index.
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- B J Strober
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
- Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Rhodes K, Hall K, Lee KE, Razzaghi H, Breindl M. Correct cell- and differentiation-specific expression of a murine alpha 1 (I) collagen minigene in vitro differentiating embryonal carcinoma cells. Gene Expr 2018; 6:35-44. [PMID: 8931990 PMCID: PMC6148262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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An in vitro differentiation system utilizing retinoic acid (RA) treatment of pluripotent murine P19 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells, which can be induced to differentiate into various cell types, was optimized for maximal induction of alpha 1 type I collagen (Col1a1) gene expression. Differentiation was associated with apoptotic death of the majority of cells, indicating that this in vitro system faithfully mimics the in vivo differentiation process. Col1a1 mRNA became detectable by RNase protection assay after 3 days of RA treatment and, after 6 days, reached a level comparable to that in NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. After induction of differentiation the Col1a1 gene remained transcriptionally active for extended periods of time even in the absence of RA. A minigene version of the murine Col1a1 gene was constructed that contains all of the so far known Col1a1 regulatory elements. This construct exhibited the correct expression pattern in stable transfection experiments: it was expressed in fibroblasts, but not in undifferentiated P19 EC cells, and it was transcriptionally activated after induction of differentiation. This experimental system should be a useful tool for dissecting the molecular mechanisms involved in the developmental activation and stage- and tissue-specific expression of the murine Col1a1 gene.
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- K Rhodes
- Department of Biology and Molecular Biology Institute, San Diego University, CA 92182, USA
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Cassell A, Edwards D, Harshfield A, Rhodes K, Brimicombe J, Payne R, Griffin S. The epidemiology of multimorbidity in primary care: a retrospective cohort study. Br J Gen Pract 2018; 68:e245-e251. [PMID: 29530918 PMCID: PMC5863678 DOI: 10.3399/bjgp18x695465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 281] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Multimorbidity places a substantial burden on patients and the healthcare system, but few contemporary epidemiological data are available. AIM To describe the epidemiology of multimorbidity in adults in England, and quantify associations between multimorbidity and health service utilisation. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective cohort study, undertaken in England. METHOD The study used a random sample of 403 985 adult patients (aged ≥18 years), who were registered with a general practice on 1 January 2012 and included in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Multimorbidity was defined as having two or more of 36 long-term conditions recorded in patients' medical records, and associations between multimorbidity and health service utilisation (GP consultations, prescriptions, and hospitalisations) over 4 years were quantified. RESULTS In total, 27.2% of the patients involved in the study had multimorbidity. The most prevalent conditions were hypertension (18.2%), depression or anxiety (10.3%), and chronic pain (10.1%). The prevalence of multimorbidity was higher in females than males (30.0% versus 24.4% respectively) and among those with lower socioeconomic status (30.0% in the quintile with the greatest levels of deprivation versus 25.8% in that with the lowest). Physical-mental comorbidity constituted a much greater proportion of overall morbidity in both younger patients (18-44 years) and those patients with a lower socioeconomic status. Multimorbidity was strongly associated with health service utilisation. Patients with multimorbidity accounted for 52.9% of GP consultations, 78.7% of prescriptions, and 56.1% of hospital admissions. CONCLUSION Multimorbidity is common, socially patterned, and associated with increased health service utilisation. These findings support the need to improve the quality and efficiency of health services providing care to patients with multimorbidity at both practice and national level.
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- Anna Cassell
- School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Rhodes K, Kennington A, Wang W. Rheumatic Heart Disease Prevalence is Under-Estimated in an Urban Adult Hospital Patient Population. Heart Lung Circ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.06.506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rhodes K, Hernandez-Ortiz D, Ioanis M, Washington W, Maxim S, Olpet K, Malakai S. Goldspotted spinefoot Siganus punctatus (Siganidae) age-based reproductive life history and fisheries vulnerability. J Fish Biol 2017; 91:1392-1406. [PMID: 28944458 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Between February 2015 and 2016, samples of the Indo-Pacific goldspotted spinefoot Siganus punctatus were taken from local fish markets, feeding sites and nursery grounds on the main island of Pohnpei, Micronesia, to ascertain sexual pattern, reproductive seasonality, age, growth and mortality. Microscopic examinations of gonads identified two seasonal peaks in reproduction: February to May and September to December, with evidence of some spawning activity in most months. Ripe females were observed 4 days on either side of the new moon. Females first matured at c. 180 mm fork length (LF ) and 1 year of age, which coincides with their entry into the fishery. Ninety five per cent of individuals were less than 3 years and the oldest fish were 8 years. To examine the species vulnerability to fishing, a tag-and-recapture study was conducted over 4 months in 2015 in a locally managed marine area and at an unprotected site. Findings suggest high residency and high vulnerability to fishing at shallow-water feeding sites and restricted migration overall. The placement of marine protected areas within critical habitat appears to be an effective conservation strategy for this species, particularly when combined with gear and seasonal market restrictions during vulnerable life-history phases.
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- K Rhodes
- Pacific Marine Science and Conservation, 160 Conaway Ave, Grass Valley, CA, 95945, U.S.A
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- University of Guam, UoG Marine Lab, UoG Station, Mangilao, GU, 96923, U.S.A
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- Pacific Marine Science and Conservation, 160 Conaway Ave, Grass Valley, CA, 95945, U.S.A
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- Pacific Marine Science and Conservation, P. O. Box 1752, Kolonia, PO, 96941, U.S.A
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- Conservation Society of Pohnpei, P. O. Box 2461, Kolonia, PO, 96941, U.S.A
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- Conservation Society of Pohnpei, P. O. Box 2461, Kolonia, PO, 96941, U.S.A
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- Pohnpei State Department of Research and Development, P. O. Box B, Kolonia, PO, 96941, U.S.A
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Erne D, Rhodes K, Bartlett M, Chong A, Wahi S. Improving Quantitation of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction in a Tertiary Echocardiography Lab- Merging Guidelines with Practice. Heart Lung Circ 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2017.06.508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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De Chiara B, Ranjbar S, Szczesniak-Stanczyk D, Gabrielli L, Djikic D, Barbier P, Hristova K, Erne D, Zayat R, Crowe TM, Almeida J, Marketou M, Caspar T, Kouris N, Pontone G, Trifunovic D, Cusma Piccione M, Madeira M, Lovric D, Drakopoulou M, Fries B, Krivickiene A, Mateescu AD, Stella S, Casadei F, Peritore A, Spano F, Santambrogio G, Vicario M, Trolese I, Gallina C, Giannattasio C, Moreo A, Karvandi M, Badano LP, Brzozowski W, Blaszczyk R, Szyszko M, Zarczuk R, Janowski M, Wysokinski A, Stanczyk B, Sitges M, Castro P, Verdejo H, Ocaranza MP, Sepulveda P, Llevaneras S, Baraona F, Salinas M, Lavanderos S, Mujovic N, Dejanovic B, Peric V, Marinkovic M, Jankovic N, Orbovic B, Simic D, Guglielmo M, Salvini L, Savioli G, Dasheva A, Marinov R, Lasarov S, Mitev I, M P, Rhodes K, Bartlett M, Chong A, Wahi S, Derwall M, Ebeling A, Nix C, Marx G, Autschbach R, Hatam N, Sonecki P, Brewis MJ, Church AC, Johnson MK, Peacock AJ, Fontes-Carvalho R, Sampaio F, Ribeiro J, Bettencourt P, Leite-Moreira A, Azevedo A, Kontaraki J, Parthenakis P, Maragkoudakis S, Touloupaki M, Patrianakos A, Konstantinou J, Vernardos M, Logakis J, Vardas P, El Ghannudi S, Ohlmann P, Lawson A, Morel O, Ohana M, Roy C, Gangi A, Germain P, Kostakou P, Dagre A, Trifou E, Rodis I, Kostopoulos V, Olympios CD, Guaricci AI, Verdecchia M, Andreini D, Guglielmo M, Baggiano A, Beltrama V, Ferro G, Carita' P, Pepi M, Krljanac G, Savic L, Asanin M, Matovic D, Stepanovic J, Stankovic G, Mrdovic I, Terrizzi A, Trio O, Oteri A, D'amico G, Ioppolo A, Nucifora G, Zucco M, Sergi M, Nicotera A, Boretti I, Carerj S, Zito C, Teixeira R, Reis L, Dinis P, Fernandes A, Caetano F, Almeida I, Costa M, Goncalves L, Reskovic Luksic V, Baricevic Z, Dosen D, Pasalic M, Ostojic Z, Brestovac M, Bulum J, Separovic Hanzevacki J, Toutouzas K, Stathogiannis K, Michelongona A, Latsios G, Synetos A, Trantalis G, Kaitozis O, Brili S, Tousoulis D, Liu D, Hu K, Voelker W, Ertl G, Weidemann F, Herrmann S, Gumauskiene B, Drebickaite E, Ereminiene E, Vaskelyte JJ, Calin A, Rosca M, Beladan CC, Enache R, Calin C, Cosei I, Botezatu S, Simion M, Ginghina C, Popescu BA, Rosa I, Marini C, Ancona F, Latib A, Monitorano M, Colombo A, Margonato A, Agricola E. Poster Session 4The imaging examination and quality assessmentP957Economic impact analysis and quality performance of working with cardiovascular sonographers in high-volume echocardiography laboratoryP958Feasibility of temporal super resolution enhancement of echocardiographic images to diagnose cardiac DiseasesP959Remote medical diagnostician project - Achievements and limitation in tele-echocardiographyP960Right atrial remodeling and galectin-3 are associated with functional capacity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertensionP961Interatrial electromechanical delay assessed by tissue doppler imaging can separate adults with prehypertension from healthy normotensive controlsP962Preliminary results of an extensive echocardiographic pacemaker optimization protocol for cardiac resynchronization therapyP963Left ventricular global and regional myocardial function in patients with double orifice mitral valve after radical correction on atrioventricular septal defectP964Improving quantitation of left ventricular ejection fraction in a tertiary echocardiography lab - marrying (or merging) guidelines and new technologyP965Echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac function and hemodynamics during LVAD-based resuscitation from cardiac arrest - a porcine studyP966Systolic excursion of the right ventricular outflow tract as a marker of right ventricular dysfunctionP967The impact of the new 2016 ASE/EACVI recommendations in the prevalence and grades of diastolic dysfunction: an analysis from the general populationP968Differential microRNA-21 and microRNA-133 gene expression levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fractionP969CMR evaluation of cardiac thrombi and masses by T1 and T2 mapping : an observational studyP970Effect of coronary artery ectasia on left ventricular deformation mechanics. A 2D Speckle Tracking Echocardiography studyP971Diagnostic performance of stress Echo, SPECT, PET, stress CMR, CTCA, CTP and FFRCT for the assessment of CAD versus invasive FFR: a metaanalysisP972Utility of early assessment of myocardial mechanics in STEMI patients treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention to predict major adverse cardiac events during the first 12 months of folloP973Role of left atrial reservoir in the prediction of increased left ventricular filling pressures in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctionP974Does the left ventricle ejection fraction improves the Grace risk score accuracy? P975Can we predict significant coronary stenosis using regional strain analysis in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome?P976Persistence of pulmonary hypertension after transcatheter aortic valve replacement: incidence and prognostic impactP977Global longitudinal strain is an independent predictor of all cause mortality in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis undergoing valve replacement or treated conservativallyP978Contribution of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and myocardial fibrosis to pulmonary hypertension in severe aortic stenosisP979Left atrial dysfunction as a determinant of pulmonary hypertension in patients with isolated severe aortic stenosis and preserved left ventricular ejection fractionP980Intraprocedural monitoring protocol using routine transthoracic echocardiography with backup transesophageal probe in transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a single center experience. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2016. 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Rhodes K, Napier S, Kennington A. Bariatric Echocardiography Guidelines - A Team Approach to Improving Sonographer and Patient Safety. Heart Lung Circ 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2016.06.505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Law M, Jackson D, Turner R, Rhodes K, Viechtbauer W. Two new methods to fit models for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects. BMC Med Res Methodol 2016; 16:87. [PMID: 27465416 PMCID: PMC4964019 DOI: 10.1186/s12874-016-0184-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 07/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Meta-analysis is a valuable tool for combining evidence from multiple studies. Network meta-analysis is becoming more widely used as a means to compare multiple treatments in the same analysis. However, a network meta-analysis may exhibit inconsistency, whereby the treatment effect estimates do not agree across all trial designs, even after taking between-study heterogeneity into account. We propose two new estimation methods for network meta-analysis models with random inconsistency effects. Methods The model we consider is an extension of the conventional random-effects model for meta-analysis to the network meta-analysis setting and allows for potential inconsistency using random inconsistency effects. Our first new estimation method uses a Bayesian framework with empirically-based prior distributions for both the heterogeneity and the inconsistency variances. We fit the model using importance sampling and thereby avoid some of the difficulties that might be associated with using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). However, we confirm the accuracy of our importance sampling method by comparing the results to those obtained using MCMC as the gold standard. The second new estimation method we describe uses a likelihood-based approach, implemented in the metafor package, which can be used to obtain (restricted) maximum-likelihood estimates of the model parameters and profile likelihood confidence intervals of the variance components. Results We illustrate the application of the methods using two contrasting examples. The first uses all-cause mortality as an outcome, and shows little evidence of between-study heterogeneity or inconsistency. The second uses “ear discharge" as an outcome, and exhibits substantial between-study heterogeneity and inconsistency. Both new estimation methods give results similar to those obtained using MCMC. Conclusions The extent of heterogeneity and inconsistency should be assessed and reported in any network meta-analysis. Our two new methods can be used to fit models for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects. They are easily implemented using the accompanying R code in the Additional file 1. Using these estimation methods, the extent of inconsistency can be assessed and reported. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12874-016-0184-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Sherlock J, Tomlins S, Cani A, Hovelson D, Rhodes K, Bien G, Schageman J, Gottimukkala R, Bandla S, Williams P, Johnson B, Sadis S. Development and validation of a scalable next-generation sequencing system for assessing recurrent somatic alterations in solid tumors. Ann Oncol 2015. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdv092.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Jackson D, Turner R, Rhodes K, Viechtbauer W. Methods for calculating confidence and credible intervals for the residual between-study variance in random effects meta-regression models. BMC Med Res Methodol 2014; 14:103. [PMID: 25196829 PMCID: PMC4160560 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-14-103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2014] [Accepted: 08/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Meta-regression is becoming increasingly used to model study level covariate effects. However this type of statistical analysis presents many difficulties and challenges. Here two methods for calculating confidence intervals for the magnitude of the residual between-study variance in random effects meta-regression models are developed. A further suggestion for calculating credible intervals using informative prior distributions for the residual between-study variance is presented. METHODS Two recently proposed and, under the assumptions of the random effects model, exact methods for constructing confidence intervals for the between-study variance in random effects meta-analyses are extended to the meta-regression setting. The use of Generalised Cochran heterogeneity statistics is extended to the meta-regression setting and a Newton-Raphson procedure is developed to implement the Q profile method for meta-analysis and meta-regression. WinBUGS is used to implement informative priors for the residual between-study variance in the context of Bayesian meta-regressions. RESULTS Results are obtained for two contrasting examples, where the first example involves a binary covariate and the second involves a continuous covariate. Intervals for the residual between-study variance are wide for both examples. CONCLUSIONS Statistical methods, and R computer software, are available to compute exact confidence intervals for the residual between-study variance under the random effects model for meta-regression. These frequentist methods are almost as easily implemented as their established counterparts for meta-analysis. Bayesian meta-regressions are also easily performed by analysts who are comfortable using WinBUGS. Estimates of the residual between-study variance in random effects meta-regressions should be routinely reported and accompanied by some measure of their uncertainty. Confidence and/or credible intervals are well-suited to this purpose.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology School for Mental Health and Neuroscience Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1), 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Garcia Martin A, Fernandez Golfin C, Salido Tahoces L, Fernandez Santos S, Jimenez Nacher J, Moya Mur J, Velasco Valdazo E, Hernandez Antolin R, Zamorano Gomez J, Veronesi F, Corsi C, Caiani E, Lamberti C, Tsang W, Holmgren C, Guo X, Bateman M, Iaizzo P, Vannier M, Lang R, Patel A, Adamayn K, Tumasyan LR, Chilingaryan A, Nasr G, Eleraki A, Farouk N, Axelsson A, Langhoff L, Jensen M, Vejlstrup N, Iversen K, Bundgaard H, Watanabe T, Iwai-Takano M, Attenhofer Jost CH, Pfyffer M, Seifert B, Scharf C, Candinas R, Medeiros-Domingo A, Chin JY, Yoon H, Vollbon W, Singbal Y, Rhodes K, Wahi S, Katova TM, Simova II, Hristova K, Kostova V, Pauncheva B, Bircan A, Sade L, Eroglu S, Pirat B, Okyay K, Bal U, Muderrisoglu H, Heggemann F, Buggisch H, Welzel G, Doesch C, Hansmann J, Schoenberg S, Borggrefe M, Wenz F, Papavassiliu T, Lohr F, Roussin I, Drakopoulou M, Rosen S, Sharma R, Prasad S, Lyon A, Carpenter J, Senior R, Breithardt OA, Razavi H, Arya A, Nabutovsky Y, Ryu K, Gaspar T, Kosiuk J, Eitel C, Hindricks G, Piorkowski C, Pires S, Nunes A, Cortez-Dias N, Belo A, Zimbarra Cabrita I, Sousa C, Pinto F, Baron T, Johansson K, Flachskampf F, Christersson C, Pires S, Cortez-Dias N, Nunes A, Belo A, Zimbarra Cabrita I, Sousa C, Pinto F, Santoro A, Federico Alvino F, Giovanni Antonelli G, Raffaella De Vito R, Roberta Molle R, Sergio Mondillo S, Gustafsson M, Alehagen U, Johansson P, Tsukishiro Y, Onishi T, Chimura M, Yamada S, Taniguchi Y, Yasaka Y, Kawai H, Souza JRM, Zacharias LGT, Pithon KR, Ozahata TM, Cliquet AJ, Blotta MH, Nadruz WJ, Fabiani I, Conte L, Cuono C, Liga R, Giannini C, Barletta V, Nardi C, Delle Donne M, Palagi C, Di Bello V, Glaveckaite S, Valeviciene N, Palionis D, Laucevicius A, Hristova K, Bogdanova V, Ferferieva V, Shiue I, Castellon X, Boles U, Rakhit R, Shiu MF, Gilbert T, Papachristidis A, Henein MY, Westholm C, Johnson J, Jernberg T, Winter R, Ghosh Dastidar A, Augustine D, Cengarle M, Mcalindon E, Bucciarelli-Ducci C, Nightingale A, Onishi T, Watanabe T, Fujita M, Mizukami Y, Sakata Y, Nakatani S, Nanto S, Uematsu M, Saraste A, Luotolahti M, Varis A, Vasankari T, Tunturi S, Taittonen M, Rautakorpi P, Airaksinen J, Ukkonen H, Knuuti J, Boshchenko A, Vrublevsky A, Karpov R, Yoshikawa H, Suzuki M, Hashimoto G, Kusunose Y, Otsuka T, Nakamura M, Sugi K, Rosner S, Orban M, Lesevic H, Karl M, Hadamitzky M, Sonne C, Panaro A, Martinez F, Huguet M, Moral S, Palet J, Oller G, Cuso I, Jornet A, Rodriguez Palomares J, Evangelista A, Stoebe S, Tarr A, Pfeiffer D, Hagendorff A, Gilmanov D, Baroni M, Cerone E, Galli E, Berti S, Glauber M, Soesanto A, Yuniadi Y, Mansyur M, Kusmana D, Venkateshvaran A, Dash PK, Sola S, Govind SC, Shahgaldi K, Winter R, Brodin LA, Manouras A, Dokainish H, Sadreddini M, Nieuwlaat R, Lonn E, Healey J, Nguyen V, Cimadevilla C, Dreyfus J, Codogno I, Vahanian A, Messika-Zeitoun D, Lim YJ, Kawamura A, Kawano S, Polte C, Gao S, Lagerstrand K, Cederbom U, Bech-Hanssen O, Baum J, Beeres F, Van Hall S, Boering Y, Zeus T, Kehmeier E, Kelm M, Balzer J, Della Mattia A, Pinamonti B, Abate E, Nicolosi G, Proclemer A, Bassetti M, Luzzati R, Sinagra G, Hlubocka Z, Jiratova K, Dostalova G, Hlubocky J, Dohnalova A, Linhart A, Palecek T, Sonne C, Lesevic H, Karl M, Rosner S, Hadamitzky M, Ott I, Malev E, Reeva S, Zemtsovsky E, Igual Munoz B, Alonso Fernandez Pau P, Miro Palau Vicente V, Maceira Gonzalez Alicia A, Estornell Erill J, Andres La Huerta A, Donate Bertolin L, Valera Martinez F, Salvador Sanz Antonio A, Montero Argudo Anastasio A, Nemes A, Kalapos A, Domsik P, Chadaide S, Sepp R, Forster T, Onaindia J, Arana X, Cacicedo A, Velasco S, Rodriguez I, Capelastegui A, Sadaba M, Gonzalez J, Salcedo A, Laraudogoitia E, Archontakis S, Gatzoulis K, Vlasseros I, Arsenos P, Tsiachris D, Vouliotis A, Sideris S, Karistinos G, Kalikazaros I, Stefanadis C, Ancona R, Comenale Pinto S, Caso P, Coppola M, Arenga F, Cavallaro C, Vecchione F, D'onofrio A, Calabro R, Correia CE, Moreira D, Cabral C, Santos J, Cardoso J, Igual Munoz B, Maceira Gonzalez A, Estornell Erill Jordi J, Jimenez Carreno R, Arnau Vives M, Monmeneu Menadas J, Domingo-Valero D, Sanchez Fernandez E, Montero Argudo Anastasio A, Zorio Grima E, Cincin A, Tigen K, Karaahmet T, Dundar C, Sunbul M, Guler A, Bulut M, Basaran Y, Mordi I, Carrick D, Berry C, Tzemos N, Cruz I, Ferreira A, Rocha Lopes L, Joao I, Almeida A, Fazendas P, Cotrim C, Pereira H, Ochoa JP, Fernandez A, Filipuzzi J, Casabe J, Salmo J, Vaisbuj F, Ganum G, Di Nunzio H, Veron L, Guevara E, Salemi V, Nerbass F, Portilho N, Ferreira Filho J, Pedrosa R, Arteaga-Fernandez E, Mady C, Drager L, Lorenzi-Filho G, Marques J, Almeida AMG, Menezes M, Silva G, Placido R, Amaro C, Brito D, Diogo A, Lourenco MR, Azevedo O, Moutinho J, Nogueira I, Machado I, Portugues J, Quelhas I, Lourenco A, Calore C, Muraru D, Melacini P, Badano L, Mihaila S, Puma L, Peluso D, Casablanca S, Ortile A, Iliceto S, Kang MK, Yu S, Park J, Kim S, Park T, Mun HS, C S, Cho SR, Han S, Lee N, Khalifa EA, Hamodraka E, Kallistratos M, Zacharopoulou I, Kouremenos N, Mavropoulos D, Tsoukas A, Kontogiannis N, Papanikolaou N, Tsoukanas K, Manolis A, Villagraz Tecedor L, Jimenez Lopez Guarch C, Alonso Chaterina S, Blazquez Arrollo L, Lopez Melgar B, Veitia Sarmiento A, Mayordomo Gomez S, Escribano Subias M, Lichodziejewska B, Kurnicka K, Goliszek S, Dzikowska Diduch O, Kostrubiec M, Krupa M, Grudzka K, Ciurzynski M, Palczewski P, Pruszczyk P, Sakata K, Ishiguro M, Kimura G, Uesugo Y, Takemoto K, Minamishima T, Futuya M, Matsue S, Satoh T, Yoshino H, Signorello M, Gianturco L, Colombo C, Stella D, Atzeni F, Boccassini L, Sarzi-Puttini P, Turiel M, Kinova E, Deliiska B, Krivoshiev S, Goudev A, De Stefano F, Santoro C, Buonauro A, Schiano-Lomoriello V, Muscariello R, De Palma D, Galderisi M, Ranganadha Babu B, Chidambaram S, Sangareddi V, Dhandapani V, Ravi M, Meenakshi K, Muthukumar D, Swaminathan N, Ravishankar G, Bruno RM, Giardini G, Catizzo B, Brustia R, Malacrida S, Armenia S, Cauchy E, Pratali L, Cesana F, Alloni M, Vallerio P, De Chiara B, Musca F, Belli O, Ricotta R, Siena S, Moreo A, Giannattasio C, Magnino C, Omede' P, Avenatti E, Presutti D, Sabia L, Moretti C, Bucca C, Gaita F, Veglio F, Milan A, Eichhorn J, Springer W, Helling A, Alarajab A, Loukanov T, Ikeda M, Kijima Y, Akagi T, Toh N, Oe H, Nakagawa K, Tanabe Y, Watanabe N, Ito H, Hascoet S, Hadeed K, Marchal P, Bennadji A, Peyre M, Dulac Y, Heitz F, Alacoque X, Chausseray G, Acar P, Kong W, Ling L, Yip J, Poh K, Vassiliou V, Rekhraj S, Hoole S, Watkinson O, Kydd A, Boyd J, Mcnab D, Densem C, Shapiro L, Rana B, Potpara T, Djikic D, Polovina M, Marcetic Z, Peric V, Lip G, Gaudron P, Niemann M, Herrmann S, Hu K, Strotmann J, Beer M, Bijnens B, Liu D, Ertl G, Weidemann F, Peric V, Jovanovic A, Djikic D, Otasevic P, Kochanowski J, Piatkowski R, Scislo P, Grabowski M, Marchel M, Opolski G, Bandera F, Guazzi M, Arena R, Corra U, Ghio S, Forfia P, Rossi A, Dini F, Cahalin L, Temporelli L, Rallidis L, Tsangaris I, Makavos G, Anthi A, Pappas A, Orfanos S, Lekakis J, Anastasiou-Nana M, Kuznetsov VA, Krinochkin DV, Yaroslavskaya EI, Zaharova EH, Pushkarev GS, Mizia-Stec K, Wita K, Mizia M, Loboz-Grudzien K, Szwed H, Kowalik I, Kukulski T, Gosciniak P, Kasprzak J, Plonska-Gosciniak E, Cimino S, Pedrizzetti G, Tonti G, Cicogna F, Petronilli V, De Luca L, Iacoboni C, Agati L, Hoffmann R, Barletta G, Von Bardeleben S, Kasprzak J, Greis C, Vanoverschelde J, Becher H, Galrinho A, Moura Branco L, Fiarresga A, Cacela D, Ramos R, Cruz Ferreira R, Van Den Oord S, Akkus Z, Bosch J, Renaud G, Sijbrands E, Verhagen H, Van Der Lugt A, Van Der Steen A, Schinkel A, Mordi I, Tzemos N, Stanton T, Delgado D, Yu E, Drakopoulou M, Gonzalez-Gonzalez A, Karonis T, Roussin I, Babu-Narayan S, Swan L, Senior R, Li W, Parisi V, Pagano G, Pellegrino T, Femminella G, De Lucia C, Formisano R, Cuocolo A, Perrone Filardi P, Leosco D, Rengo G, Unlu S, Farsalinos K, Amelot K, Daraban A, Ciarka A, Delcroix M, Voigt J, Miskovic A, Poerner T, Goebel B, Stiller C, Moritz A, Sakata K, Uesugo Y, Kimura G, Ishiguro M, Takemoto K, Minamishima T, Futuya M, Satoh T, Yoshino H, Miyoshi T, Tanaka H, Kaneko A, Matsumoto K, Imanishi J, Motoji Y, Mochizuki Y, Minami H, Kawai H, Hirata K, Wutthimanop A, See O, Vathesathokit P, Yamwong S, Sritara P, Rosner A, Kildal A, Stenberg T, Myrmel T, How O, Capriolo M, Frea S, Giustetto C, Scrocco C, Benedetto S, Grosso Marra W, Morello M, Gaita F, Garcia-Gonzalez P, Cozar-Santiago P, Chacon-Hernandez N, Ferrando-Beltran M, Fabregat-Andres O, De La Espriella-Juan R, Fontane-Martinez C, Jurado-Sanchez R, Morell-Cabedo S, Ridocci-Soriano F, Mihaila S, Piasentini E, Muraru D, Peluso D, Casablanca S, Puma L, Naso P, Iliceto S, Vinereanu D, Badano L, Tarzia P, Villano A, Figliozzi S, Russo G, Parrinello R, Lamendola P, Sestito A, Lanza G, Crea F, Sulemane S, Panoulas V, Bratsas A, Frankel A, Nihoyannopoulos P, Dores H, Andrade M, Almeida M, Goncalves P, Branco P, Gaspar A, Gomes A, Horta E, Carvalho M, Mendes M, Yue W, Li X, Chen Y, Luo Y, Gu P, Yiu K, Siu C, Tse H, Cho E, Lee S, Hwang B, Kim D, Jang S, Jeon H, Youn H, Kim J. 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Vollbon W, Singbal Y, Rhodes K, Wahi S. Non-invasive Estimation of Right Ventricular Function: Do the Cut-offs Need to be Redefined? Heart Lung Circ 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2013.05.453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Arnold HM, Huang C, Huang R, Engber T, Rhodes K, Scannevin R. Neuroprotective Effects of BG-12 on Malonate-Induced Striatal Lesion Volume in Sprague-Dawley Rat Brain (P02.121). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.p02.121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Vollbon W, Rhodes K, Hughes C, Manolis C, Davies K, Wahi S. State Cardiac Network Quality Standards and Guidelines Improve Performance and Clinical Efficiency—A Step in the Right Direction. Heart Lung Circ 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2012.05.556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Kennedy-Hagan K, Painter J, Honselman C, Halvorson A, Rhodes K, Skwir K. The effect of pistachio shells as a visual cue in reducing caloric consumption. Appetite 2011; 57:418-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2010] [Revised: 05/31/2011] [Accepted: 06/02/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Tramonti D, Rhodes K, Martin N, Dalton JE, Andrew E, Carding SR. gammadeltaT cell-mediated regulation of chemokine producing macrophages during Listeria monocytogenes infection-induced inflammation. J Pathol 2008; 216:262-70. [PMID: 18767021 DOI: 10.1002/path.2412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Infection of gammadeltaT cell-deficient (TcRdelta-/-) mice with the intracellular bacterium Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) results in an exacerbated inflammatory response characterized by the accumulation of activated macrophages and necrotic liver lesions. Here we investigated whether changes in chemokine production by Lm-elicited macrophages contribute to this abnormal inflammatory response. In response to Lm infection, activated macrophages accumulate in the primary sites of infection in TcRdelta-/- mice and express high amounts of mRNA encoding the chemokines CCL3 (MIP-1alpha), CCL4 (MIP-1beta), CXCL2 (MIP-2) and CXCL10 (IP-10). In the infected tissues of TcRdelta-/- the number of chemokine-synthesizing macrophages was higher than in wild-type (WT) mice, with the amount of MIP-1alpha and MIP-1beta secreted by individual macrophages in the spleen of TcRdelta-/- mice also being significantly higher than in WT mice. By contrast, protease activity and NO production in individual splenic macrophages of Lm-infected TcRdelta-/- and WT mice were comparable. Pathogen-elicited macrophages in TcRdelta-/- mice also expressed high levels of the CCL3 and CCL4 receptor, CCR5. In macrophage-gammadeltaT cell co-cultures, chemokine-producing macrophages were killed by cytotoxic Vgamma1+ T cells in a Fas-FasL-dependent manner consistent with the high levels of chemokine-producing macrophages seen in infected TcRdelta-/- mice being due to the absence of Vgamma1+ T cells. Together these findings highlight the importance of gammadeltaT cells in regulating macrophage anti-microbial responses.
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- Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS29JT, UK
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Rabeneck L, Rumble RB, Axler J, Smith A, Armstrong D, Vinden C, Belliveau P, Rhodes K, Zwaal C, Mai V, Dixon P. Cancer Care Ontario Colonoscopy Standards: standards and evidentiary base. Can J Gastroenterol 2007; 21 Suppl D:5D-24D. [PMID: 18026582 PMCID: PMC2802327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common cause of non-tobacco-related cancer deaths in Canadian men and women, accounting for 10% of all cancer deaths. An estimated 7800 men and women will be diagnosed with CRC, and 3250 will die from the disease in Ontario in 2007. Given that CRC incidence and mortality rates in Ontario are among the highest in the world, the best opportunity to reduce this burden of disease would be through screening. The present report describes the findings and recommendations of Cancer Care Ontario's Colonoscopy Standards Expert Panel, which was convened in March 2006 by the Program in Evidence-Based Care. The recommendations will form the basis of the quality assurance program for colonoscopy delivered in support of Ontario's CRC screening program.
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Wang Y, Zhang ZG, Rhodes K, Renzi M, Zhang RL, Kapke A, Lu M, Pool C, Heavner G, Chopp M. Post-ischemic treatment with erythropoietin or carbamylated erythropoietin reduces infarction and improves neurological outcome in a rat model of focal cerebral ischemia. Br J Pharmacol 2007; 151:1377-84. [PMID: 17603558 PMCID: PMC2189829 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0707285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO; Epoetin-alpha; PROCRITtrade mark) has been shown to exert neuroprotective and restorative effects in a variety of CNS injury models. However, limited information is available regarding the dose levels required for these beneficial effects or the neuronal responses that may underlie them. Here we have investigated the dose-response to rhEPO and compared the effects of rhEPO with those of carbamylated rhEPO (CEPO) in a model of cerebral stroke in rats. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Rats subjected to embolic middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo) were treated with rhEPO or CEPO, starting at 6 h and repeated at 24 and 48 h, after MCAo. Cerebral infarct volumes were assessed at 28 days and neurological impairment at 7, 14, 21 and 28 days, post-MCAo. KEY RESULTS rhEPO at dose levels of 500, 1150 or 5000 IU kg(-1) or CEPO at a dose level of 50 microg kg(-1) significantly reduced cortical infarct volume and reduced neurologic impairment. All doses of rhEPO, but not CEPO, produced a transient increase in haematocrit, while rhEPO and CEPO substantially reduced the number of apoptotic cells and activated microglia in the ischemic boundary region. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS These data indicate that rhEPO and CEPO have anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects, even with administration at 6 h following embolic MCAo in rats. Taken together, these actions of rhEPO and CEPO are likely to contribute to their reduction of neurologic impairment following cerebral ischemia.
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- Y Wang
- Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI, USA
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- CNS Research Team, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development Spring House, PA, USA
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- CNS Research Team, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development Spring House, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI, USA
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- Protein Design, Centocor Radnor, PA, USA
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- Protein Design, Centocor Radnor, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Health Science Center Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Physics, Oakland University Rochester, MI, USA
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Mills A, Rhodes K, Follansbee C, Shofer F, Prusakowski M, Bernstein S. Effect of Having Children in the Household of Adult Emergency Department Smokers: Motivation to Quit. Acad Emerg Med 2007. [DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.03.961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Rhodes K. Are You a Victim of Domestic Violence? Acad Emerg Med 2007. [DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.03.814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Pines J, Rhodes K, Baxt W, Hollander J. ED Crowding is Associated with Delays in Analgesia and Non-treatment for Patients who Report Severe Pain. Acad Emerg Med 2007. [DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.03.838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Pines J, Garson C, Shofer F, Rhodes K, Sease K, Baxt W, Hollander J. ED Crowding is Associated with Perceptions of Compromised Quality of Care. Acad Emerg Med 2007. [DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.03.923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Dichter M, Kolansky S, Rhodes K. Use of the 911 System as a Risk Indicator for Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department. Acad Emerg Med 2007. [DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.03.872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Zhang W, Gordon M, Yang D, Yun J, Press O, Rhodes K, Groshen S, Lenz H. Genomic Polymorphisms of Angiogenesis Pathway Predict Radiosensitivity in Rectal Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.07.485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Zhang W, Vallböhmer D, Yang D, Yun J, Press OA, Gordon M, Rhodes K, Sherrod A, Iqbal S, Lenz HJ. Genomic profile associated with clinical outcome of EGFR-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor cetuximab. J Clin Oncol 2005. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.3557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- W. Zhang
- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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- USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Ctr, Los Angeles, CA
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Gordon MA, Zhang W, Karaman M, Yun J, Press O, Rhodes K, Vallböhmer D, Iqbal S, Hacia J, Lenz HJ. Gene expression profiling associated with risk of recurrence in patients with colorectal cancer. J Clin Oncol 2005. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.3602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Univ of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Univ of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Univ of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Univ of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Univ of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Univ of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
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Peignot P, Rhodes K. Choosing a silicone adhesive and treatment system. Med Device Technol 2004; 15:22-4. [PMID: 15255533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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As devices become smaller and bonds more critical, choosing the right adhesive system may be essential to the success of the device. This article investigates some adhesives and primers used to adhere difficult substrates.
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- P Peignot
- Nusil Technology, Sophia Antipolis, France.
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Paediatricians were surveyed about baby walker knowledge, attitudes, and practice. Advising about walkers was associated with working in community paediatrics, treating walker related injuries, knowledge about walkers, and positive attitudes towards walker health promotion. Greater knowledge about walkers was associated with more negative attitudes to walkers. Educating paediatricians and parents about the risks of, and alternatives to using walkers is important.
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- K Rhodes
- University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Clifton Boulevard, Nottingham, UK
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Muir EM, Adcock KH, Morgenstern DA, Clayton R, von Stillfried N, Rhodes K, Ellis C, Fawcett JW, Rogers JH. Matrix metalloproteases and their inhibitors are produced by overlapping populations of activated astrocytes. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 2002; 100:103-17. [PMID: 12008026 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(02)00132-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteases (TIMPs) are involved in many cell migration phenomena and produced by many cell types, including neurons and glia. To assess their possible roles in brain injury and regeneration, we investigate their production by glial cells, after brain injury and in tissue culture, and we investigate whether they are capable of digesting known axon-inhibitory proteoglycans. To determine the action of MMPs, we incubated astrocyte conditioned medium with activated MMPs, then did western blots for several chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans. MMP-3 digested all five proteoglycans tested, whereas MMP-2 digested only two and MMP-9 none. To determine whether MMPs or TIMPs are produced by astrocytes in vitro, we tested both primary cultures and astrocyte cell lines by western blotting, and compared them with Schwann cells. All cultures produced at least some MMPs and TIMPs, with no obvious correlation with the ability of axons to grow on those cells. Both MMP-9 and TIMP-3 were regulated by various cytokines. To determine which cells produce MMPs and TIMPs after brain injury, we made lesions of adult rat cortex, and did immunohistochemistry. MMP-2 was seen to be induced in activated astrocytes through the whole thickness of the cortex but not deeper, but MMP-3 was not seen in the injured brain. TIMP-2 and TIMP-3 immunoreactivities were induced in activated astrocytes in deep cortex and the underlying white matter. In situ hybridisation confirmed induction of TIMP-2 in glia as well as neurons, but showed no expression of TIMP-4. These results show that both MMPs and TIMPs are produced by some astrocytes, but TIMP production is particularly strong, especially in deep cortex and white matter which is more inhibitory for axon regeneration. Conversely the MMPs produced may not be adequate to promote migration of cells and axons within the glial scar.
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- E M Muir
- Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK
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In the olfactory pathway, as in the limbs, branchial arches, and heart, mesenchymal/epithelial induction, mediated by retinoic acid (RA), FGF8, sonic hedgehog (shh), and the BMPs, defines patterning, morphogenesis, and differentiation. Neuronal differentiation in the olfactory epithelium and directed growth of axons in the nascent olfactory nerve depend critically upon this inductive interaction. When RA, FGF8, shh, or BMP signaling is disrupted, distinct aspects of olfactory pathway patterning and differentiation are compromised. Thus, a cellular and molecular mechanism that facilitates musculoskeletal and vascular development elsewhere in the embryo has been adapted to guide the differentiation of the olfactory pathway in the developing forebrain.
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- A S LaMantia
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology and Center for Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Medical School, 27599, USA.
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Rhodes K. NK1 modulators, nociception and nitric oxide. IDrugs 1999; 2:217-9. [PMID: 16160929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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- K Rhodes
- Dept of Neuroendocrinology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, London, W6 8RF, UK.
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The human keratin 18 (K18) gene is expressed in a restricted but diverse subset of differentiated epithelial tissues and carcinomas. The 10-kilobase pair K18 gene contains all of the genetic information necessary for tissue-specific, copy number-dependent and integration site-independent expression in transgenic mice. We identified a 100-base pair regulatory element that activates the K18 proximal promoter in the presence of the previously identified first intron enhancer. Deletion of the element greatly diminished K18 expression. This regulatory element also has cryptic, AP-1-dependent promoter activity in the absence of the normal promoter, which results in 10-40-fold higher levels of K18 RNA expression in transgenic mice. The high activity of this cryptic promoter is dependent upon the first intron enhancer. These experiments define interactive regulatory regions of the K18 gene that modulate expression in diverse epithelial cell types and identify an unusual regulatory element with promoter activity that may be useful for high level heterologous gene expression in transgenic animals.
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- K Rhodes
- The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Rhodes K. Headache Federation--Fourth European Congress. 12-16 June 1998, Corfu, Greece. IDrugs 1998; 1:289-291. [PMID: 18465549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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This joint meeting with the Hellenic Society for the Study of Headache was attended by approximately 1000 delegates in the exceptionally pleasant surroundings of the Imperial Hotel, Corfu, Greece. The majority of attendees were clinicians and the topics ranged over the physiological mechanisms underlying different types of headache, non-pharmacological methods of treatment and reports of new and not so new drug treatments.
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- K Rhodes
- Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, UK.
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Umezawa A, Yamamoto H, Rhodes K, Klemsz MJ, Maki RA, Oshima RG. Methylation of an ETS site in the intron enhancer of the keratin 18 gene participates in tissue-specific repression. Mol Cell Biol 1997; 17:4885-94. [PMID: 9271368 PMCID: PMC232341 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.9.4885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The activities of ETS transcription factors are modulated by posttranscriptional modifications and cooperation with other proteins. Another factor which could alter the regulation of genes by ETS transcription factors is DNA methylation of their cognate binding sites. The optimal activity of the keratin 18 (K18) gene is dependent upon an ETS binding site within an enhancer region located in the first intron. The methylation of the ETS binding site was correlated with the repression of the K18 gene in normal human tissues and in K18 transgenic mouse tissues. Neither recombinant ETS2 nor endogenous spleen ETS binding activities bound the methylated site effectively. Increased expression of the K18 gene in spleens of transgenic mice by use of an alternative, cryptic promoter 700 bp upstream of the enhancer resulted in modestly decreased methylation of the K18 ETS site and increased RNA expression. Expression in transgenic mice of a mutant K18 gene, which was still capable of activation by ETS factors but was no longer a substrate for DNA methylation of the ETS site, was fivefold higher in spleen and heart. However, expression in other organs such as liver and intestine was similar to that of the wild-type gene. This result suggests that DNA methylation of the K18 ETS site may be functionally important in the tissue-specific repression of the K18 gene. Epigenetic modification of the binding sites for some ETS transcription factors may result in a refractory transcriptional response even in the presence of necessary trans-acting activities.
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- A Umezawa
- Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Rhodes K, Qureshi A, Foulkes H. The Use of GP Elderly Beds in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney District. Age Ageing 1997. [DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.suppl_3.p33-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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