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Hughes G, Young WJ, Bern H, Crook A, Lambiase PD, Goodall RL, Nunn AJ, Meredith SK. T-wave morphology abnormalities in the STREAM stage 1 trial. Expert Opin Drug Saf 2024; 23:469-476. [PMID: 38462751 DOI: 10.1080/14740338.2024.2322116] [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: 07/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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BACKGROUND Shorter regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) have non-inferior efficacy compared with longer regimens, but QT prolongation is a concern. T-wave morphology abnormalities may be a predictor of QT prolongation. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS STREAM Stage 1 was a randomized controlled trial in rifampicin-resistant TB, comparing short and long regimens. All participants had regular ECGs. QT/QTcF prolongation (≥500 ms or increase in ≥60 ms from baseline) was more common on the short regimen which contained high-dose moxifloxacin and clofazimine. Blinded ECGs were selected from the baseline, early (weeks 1-4), and late (weeks 12-36) time points. T-wave morphology was categorized as normal or abnormal (notched, asymmetric, flat-wave, flat peak, or broad). Differences between groups were assessed using Chi-Square tests (paired/unpaired, as appropriate). RESULTS Two-hundred participants with available ECGs at relevant times were analyzed (QT prolongation group n = 82; non-prolongation group n = 118). At baseline, 23% (45/200) of participants displayed abnormal T-waves, increasing to 45% (90/200, p < 0.001) at the late time point. Abnormalities were more common in participants allocated the Short regimen (75/117, 64%) than the Long (14/38, 36.8%, p = 0.003); these occurred prior to QT/QTcF ≥500 ms in 53% of the participants (Long 2/5; Short 14/25). CONCLUSIONS T-wave abnormalities may help identify patients at risk of QT prolongation on DR-TB treatment. TRIAL REGISTRATION The trial is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (CT.gov identifier: NCT02409290). Current Controlled Trial number, ISRCTN78372190.
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- Gareth Hughes
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
- Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomews Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
- NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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Rosu L, Madan JJ, Tomeny EM, Muniyandi M, Nidoi J, Girma M, Vilc V, Bindroo P, Dhandhukiya R, Bayissa AK, Meressa D, Narendran G, Solanki R, Bhatnagar AK, Tudor E, Kirenga B, Meredith SK, Nunn AJ, Bronson G, Rusen ID, Squire SB, Worrall E. Economic evaluation of shortened, bedaquiline-containing treatment regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2): a within-trial analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health 2023; 11:e265-e277. [PMID: 36565704 DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00498-3] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Revised: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND The STREAM stage 2 trial assessed two bedaquiline-containing regimens for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: a 9-month all-oral regimen and a 6-month regimen containing an injectable drug for the first 2 months. We did a within-trial economic evaluation of these regimens. METHODS STREAM stage 2 was an international, phase 3, non-inferiority randomised trial in which participants with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis were randomly assigned (1:2:2:2) to the 2011 WHO regimen (terminated early), a 9-month injectable-containing regimen (control regimen), a 9-month all-oral regimen with bedaquiline (oral regimen), or a 6-month regimen with bedaquiline and an injectable for the first 2 months (6-month regimen). We prospectively collected direct and indirect costs and health-related quality of life data from trial participants until week 76 of follow-up. Cost-effectiveness of the oral and 6-month regimens versus control was estimated in four countries (oral regimen) and two countries (6-month regimen), using health-related quality of life for cost-utility analysis and trial efficacy for cost-effectiveness analysis. This trial is registered with ISRCTN, ISRCTN18148631. FINDINGS 300 participants were included in the economic analyses (Ethiopia, 61; India, 142; Moldova, 51; Uganda, 46). In the cost-utility analysis, the oral regimen was not cost-effective in Ethiopia, India, Moldova, and Uganda from either a provider or societal perspective. In Moldova, the oral regimen was dominant from a societal perspective. In the cost-effectiveness analysis, the oral regimen was likely to be cost-effective from a provider perspective at willingness-to-pay thresholds per additional favourable outcome of more than US$4500 in Ethiopia, $1900 in India, $3950 in Moldova, and $7900 in Uganda, and from a societal perspective at thresholds of more than $15 900 in Ethiopia, $3150 in India, and $4350 in Uganda, while in Moldova the oral regimen was dominant. In Ethiopia and India, the 6-month regimen would cost tuberculosis programmes and participants less than the control regimen and was highly likely to be cost-effective in both cost-utility analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. Reducing the bedaquiline price from $1·81 to $1·00 per tablet made the oral regimen cost-effective in the provider-perspective cost-utility analysis in India and Moldova and dominate over the control regimen in the provider-perspective cost-effectiveness analysis in India. INTERPRETATION At current costs, the oral bedaquiline-containing regimen for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis is unlikely to be cost-effective in many low-income and middle-income countries. The 6-month regimen represents a cost-effective alternative if injectable use for 2 months is acceptable. FUNDING USAID and Janssen Research & Development.
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- Laura Rosu
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
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- Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Makerere University Lung Institute, Kampala, Uganda
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- Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Institute of Phthisiopneumology Chiril Draganiuc, Chisinau, Moldova
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- Rajan Babu Institute for Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis, Delhi, India
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- St Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Rajan Babu Institute for Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis, Delhi, India
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- Institute of Phthisiopneumology Chiril Draganiuc, Chisinau, Moldova
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, London, UK
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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Goodall RL, Meredith SK, Nunn AJ, Bayissa A, Bhatnagar AK, Bronson G, Chiang CY, Conradie F, Gurumurthy M, Kirenga B, Kiria N, Meressa D, Moodliar R, Narendran G, Ngubane N, Rassool M, Sanders K, Solanki R, Squire SB, Torrea G, Tsogt B, Tudor E, Van Deun A, Rusen ID. Evaluation of two short standardised regimens for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority trial. Lancet 2022; 400:1858-1868. [PMID: 36368336 PMCID: PMC7614824 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)02078-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 10/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND The STREAM stage 1 trial showed that a 9-month regimen for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis was non-inferior to the 20-month 2011 WHO-recommended regimen. In STREAM stage 2, we aimed to compare two bedaquiline-containing regimens with the 9-month STREAM stage 1 regimen. METHODS We did a randomised, phase 3, non-inferiority trial in 13 hospital clinics in seven countries, in individuals aged 15 years or older with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis without fluoroquinolone or aminoglycoside resistance. Participants were randomly assigned 1:2:2:2 to the 2011 WHO regimen (terminated early), a 9-month control regimen, a 9-month oral regimen with bedaquiline (primary comparison), or a 6-month regimen with bedaquiline and 8 weeks of second-line injectable. Randomisations were stratified by site, HIV status, and CD4 count. Participants and clinicians were aware of treatment-group assignments, but laboratory staff were masked. The primary outcome was favourable status (negative cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis without a preceding unfavourable outcome) at 76 weeks; any death, bacteriological failure or recurrence, and major treatment change were considered unfavourable outcomes. All comparisons used groups of participants randomly assigned concurrently. For non-inferiority to be shown, the upper boundary of the 95% CI should be less than 10% in both modified intention-to-treat (mITT) and per-protocol analyses, with prespecified tests for superiority done if non-inferiority was shown. This trial is registered with ISRCTN, ISRCTN18148631. FINDINGS Between March 28, 2016, and Jan 28, 2020, 1436 participants were screened and 588 were randomly assigned. Of 517 participants in the mITT population, 133 (71%) of 187 on the control regimen and 162 (83%) of 196 on the oral regimen had a favourable outcome: a difference of 11·0% (95% CI 2·9-19·0), adjusted for HIV status and randomisation protocol (p<0·0001 for non-inferiority). By 76 weeks, 108 (53%) of 202 participants on the control regimen and 106 (50%) of 211 allocated to the oral regimen had an adverse event of grade 3 or 4; five (2%) participants on the control regimen and seven (3%) on the oral regimen had died. Hearing loss (Brock grade 3 or 4) was more frequent in participants on the control regimen than in those on the oral regimen (18 [9%] vs four [2%], p=0·0015). Of 134 participants in the mITT population who were allocated to the 6-month regimen, 122 (91%) had a favourable outcome compared with 87 (69%) of 127 participants randomly assigned concurrently to the control regimen (adjusted difference 22·2%, 95% CI 13·1-31·2); six (4%) of 143 participants on the 6-month regimen had grade 3 or 4 hearing loss. INTERPRETATION Both bedaquiline-containing regimens, a 9-month oral regimen and a 6-month regimen with 8 weeks of second-line injectable, had superior efficacy compared with a 9-month injectable-containing regimen, with fewer cases of hearing loss. FUNDING USAID and Janssen Research & Development.
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- Ruth L Goodall
- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, London, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, London, UK
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- Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Rajan Babu Institute for Pulmonary Medicine & Tuberculosis, Delhi, India
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France
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- Makerere University Lung Institute, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
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- National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- St Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Tuberculosis & HIV Investigative, Doris Goodwin Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- Clinical HIV Research Unit, Helen Joseph Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Institute of Phthisiopneumology Chiril Draganiuc, Chisinau, Moldova
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Hughes G, Bern H, Chiang CY, Goodall RL, Nunn AJ, Rusen ID, Meredith SK. ECG monitoring in STREAM Stage 1: can we identify those at increased risk of QT prolongation? Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2022; 26:1065-1070. [PMID: 36281045 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: STREAM (Standardised Treatment Regimen of Anti-tuberculosis Drugs for Patients with Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis) Stage 1 was a randomised trial of a Short (9-month) regimen for rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB). QT or QTcF prolongation ≥500 ms occurred in 31 (11%) of 282 Short regimen participants. The frequent ECG monitoring employed might be challenging for treatment programmes. This analysis aimed to determine whether those at higher risk of severe QT prolongation could be identified early for more targeted monitoring.METHODS: Data from the first month of treatment were used to investigate whether participants were at risk of developing QT/QTcF ≥500 ms. QTcF increases from baseline at different time points were examined. Absolute QTcF measurements were categorised in 5 ms increments at each time-point. The most discriminating time points and QTcF cut-offs were combined to optimise sensitivity and specificity.RESULTS: Absolute QTcF values were more discriminating than magnitude of increase from baseline. More participants who developed QT/QTcF ≥500 ms had a QTcF of respectively ≥425 ms and ≥430 ms at 4 h and Week 3 (P < 0.05) than those who did not. By combining QTcF values ≥425 ms at 4 h and ≥430 ms at Week 3, we identified high-risk participants with 97% sensitivity and 99% negative predictive value.CONCLUSION: Reduced ECG monitoring may be possible for many Short regimen participants.
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- G Hughes
- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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- Research Division, Vital Strategies, New York, NY, USA
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK
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Phillips PPJ, Van Deun A, Ahmed S, Goodall RL, Meredith SK, Conradie F, Chiang CY, Rusen ID, Nunn AJ. Investigation of the efficacy of the short regimen for rifampicin-resistant TB from the STREAM trial. BMC Med 2020; 18:314. [PMID: 33143704 PMCID: PMC7640464 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-020-01770-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The STREAM trial demonstrated that a 9-11-month "short" regimen had non-inferior efficacy and comparable safety to a 20+ month "long" regimen for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis. Imbalance in the components of the composite primary outcome merited further investigation. METHODS Firstly, the STREAM primary outcomes were mapped to alternatives in current use, including WHO programmatic outcome definitions and other recently proposed modifications for programmatic or research purposes. Secondly, the outcomes were re-classified according to the likelihood that it was a Failure or Relapse (FoR) event on a 5-point Likert scale: Definite, Probable, Possible, Unlikely, and Highly Unlikely. Sensitivity analyses were employed to explore the impact of informative censoring. The protocol-defined modified intention-to-treat (MITT) analysis population was used for all analyses. RESULTS Cure on the short regimen ranged from 75.1 to 84.2% across five alternative outcomes. However, between-regimens results did not exceed 1.3% in favor of the long regimen (95% CI upper bound 10.1%), similar to the primary efficacy results from the trial. Considering only Definite or Probable FoR events, there was weak evidence of a higher risk of FoR in the short regimen, HR 2.19 (95%CI 0.90, 5.35), p = 0.076; considering only Definite FoR events, the evidence was stronger, HR 3.53 (95%CI 1.05, 11.87), p = 0.030. Cumulative number of grade 3-4 AEs was the strongest predictor of censoring. Considering a larger effect of informative censoring attenuated treatment differences, although 95% CI were very wide. CONCLUSION Five alternative outcome definitions gave similar overall results. The risk of failure or relapse (FoR) may be higher in the short regimen than in the long regimen, highlighting the importance of how loss to follow-up and other censoring is accounted for in analyses. The outcome of time to FoR should be considered as a primary outcome for future drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB treatment trials, provided sensitivity analyses exploring the impact of departures from independent censoring are also included.
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- P P J Phillips
- UCSF Center for Tuberculosis, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris, France
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- Research Division, Vital Strategies, New York, USA
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK
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Tweed CD, Crook AM, Dawson R, Diacon AH, McHugh TD, Mendel CM, Meredith SK, Mohapi L, Murphy ME, Nunn AJ, Phillips PPJ, Singh KP, Spigelman M, Gillespie SH. Toxicity related to standard TB therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis and treatment outcomes in the REMoxTB study according to HIV status. BMC Pulm Med 2019; 19:152. [PMID: 31412895 PMCID: PMC6694514 DOI: 10.1186/s12890-019-0907-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The phase III REMoxTB study prospectively enrolled HIV-positive (with CD4+ count > 250 cells, not on anti-retroviral therapy) and HIV-negative patients. We investigated the incidence of adverse events and cure rates according to HIV status for patients receiving standard TB therapy in the trial. METHODS Forty-two HIV-positive cases were matched to 220 HIV-negative controls by age, gender, ethnicity, and trial site using coarsened exact matching. Grade 3 and 4 adverse events (AEs) were summarised by MedDRA System Organ Class. Kaplan-Meier curves for time to first grade 3 or 4 AE were constructed according to HIV status with hazard ratios calculated. Patients were considered cured if they were culture negative 18 months after commencing therapy with ≥2 consecutive negative culture results. RESULTS Twenty of 42 (47.6%) HIV-positive and 34 of 220 (15.5%) HIV-negative patients experienced ≥1 grade 3 or 4 AE, respectively. The majority of these were hepatobiliary disorders that accounted for 12 of 40 (30.0%) events occurring in 6 of 42 (14.3%) HIV-positive patients and for 15 of 60 (25.0%) events occurring in 9 of 220 (4.1%) HIV-negative patients. The median time to first grade 3 or 4 AE was 54 days (IQR 15.5-59.0) for HIV-positive and 29.5 days (IQR 9.0-119.0) for HIV-negative patients, respectively. The hazard ratio for experiencing a grade 3 or 4 AE among HIV-positive patients was 3.25 (95% CI 1.87-5.66, p < 0.01). Cure rates were similar, with 38 of 42 (90.5%) HIV-positive and 195 of 220 (88.6%) HIV-negative patients (p = 0.73) cured at 18 months. CONCLUSIONS HIV-positive patients receiving standard TB therapy in the REMoxTB study were at greater risk of adverse events during treatment but cure rates were similar when compared to a matched sample of HIV-negative patients.
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- Conor D Tweed
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK.
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK
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- University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK
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- Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK
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- The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Australia
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Nunn AJ, Phillips PPJ, Meredith SK, Chiang CY, Conradie F, Dalai D, van Deun A, Dat PT, Lan N, Master I, Mebrahtu T, Meressa D, Moodliar R, Ngubane N, Sanders K, Squire SB, Torrea G, Tsogt B, Rusen ID. A Trial of a Shorter Regimen for Rifampin-Resistant Tuberculosis. N Engl J Med 2019; 380:1201-1213. [PMID: 30865791 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1811867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cohort studies in Bangladesh showed promising cure rates among patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis who received existing drugs in regimens shorter than that recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2011. METHODS We conducted a phase 3 noninferiority trial in participants with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis that was susceptible to fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides. Participants were randomly assigned, in a 2:1 ratio, to receive a short regimen (9 to 11 months) that included high-dose moxifloxacin or a long regimen (20 months) that followed the 2011 WHO guidelines. The primary efficacy outcome was a favorable status at 132 weeks, defined by cultures negative for Mycobacterium tuberculosis at 132 weeks and at a previous occasion, with no intervening positive culture or previous unfavorable outcome. An upper 95% confidence limit for the between-group difference in favorable status that was 10 percentage points or less was used to determine noninferiority. RESULTS Of 424 participants who underwent randomization, 383 were included in the modified intention-to-treat population. Favorable status was reported in 79.8% of participants in the long-regimen group and in 78.8% of those in the short-regimen group - a difference, with adjustment for human immunodeficiency virus status, of 1.0 percentage point (95% confidence interval [CI], -7.5 to 9.5) (P = 0.02 for noninferiority). The results with respect to noninferiority were consistent among the 321 participants in the per-protocol population (adjusted difference, -0.7 percentage points; 95% CI, -10.5 to 9.1). An adverse event of grade 3 or higher occurred in 45.4% of participants in the long-regimen group and in 48.2% in the short-regimen group. Prolongation of either the QT interval or the corrected QT interval (calculated with Fridericia's formula) to 500 msec occurred in 11.0% of participants in the short-regimen group, as compared with 6.4% in the long-regimen group (P = 0.14); because of the greater incidence in the short-regimen group, participants were closely monitored and some received medication adjustments. Death occurred in 8.5% of participants in the short-regimen group and in 6.4% in the long-regimen group, and acquired resistance to fluoroquinolones or aminoglycosides occurred in 3.3% and 2.3%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In persons with rifampin-resistant tuberculosis that was susceptible to fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides, a short regimen was noninferior to a long regimen with respect to the primary efficacy outcome and was similar to the long regimen in terms of safety. (Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and others; Current Controlled Trials number, ISRCTN78372190; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02409290.).
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- Andrew J Nunn
- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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- From the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (UCL), London (A.J.N, P.P.J.P., S.K.M., K.S.), and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.B.S.) - both in the United Kingdom; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (the Union), Paris (C.-Y.C., A.D., I.D.R.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Wanfang Hospital, and School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University (C.-Y.C.) - both in Taipei, Taiwan; the University of Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg (F.C.), King Dinizulu Hospital Complex, Kwazulu Natal (I.M., N.N.), and Think TB and HIV Investigative Network, Durban (R.M.) - all in South Africa; National Center for Communicable Diseases (D.D.) and the Mongolian Tuberculosis Coalition (B.T.) - both in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (A.D., G.T.); Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (P.-T.D., N.L.); Armauer Hansen Research Institute (T.M.), and St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specialized Hospital and Global Health Committee (D.M.) - all in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the Division of Research and Development, Vital Strategies, New York (I.D.R.); and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto (I.D.R.)
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Murphy ME, Wills GH, Murthy S, Louw C, Bateson ALC, Hunt RD, McHugh TD, Nunn AJ, Meredith SK, Mendel CM, Spigelman M, Crook AM, Gillespie SH. Gender differences in tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a post hoc analysis of the REMoxTB study. BMC Med 2018; 16:189. [PMID: 30326959 PMCID: PMC6192317 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-018-1169-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In the REMoxTB study of 4-month treatment-shortening regimens containing moxifloxacin compared to the standard 6-month regimen for tuberculosis, the proportion of unfavourable outcomes for women was similar in all study arms, but men had more frequent unfavourable outcomes (bacteriologically or clinically defined failure or relapse within 18 months after randomisation) on the shortened moxifloxacin-containing regimens. The reason for this gender disparity in treatment outcome is poorly understood. METHODS The gender differences in baseline variables were calculated, as was time to smear and culture conversion and Kaplan-Meier plots were constructed. In post hoc exploratory analyses, multivariable logistic regression modelling and an observed case analysis were used to explore factors associated with both gender and unfavourable treatment outcome. RESULTS The per-protocol population included 472/1548 (30%) women. Women were younger and had lower rates of cavitation, smoking and weight (all p < 0.05) and higher prevalence of HIV (10% vs 6%, p = 0.001). They received higher doses (mg/kg) than men of rifampicin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide and moxifloxacin (p ≤ 0.005). There was no difference in baseline smear grading or mycobacterial growth indicator tube (MGIT) time to positivity. Women converted to negative cultures more quickly than men on Lowenstein-Jensen (HR 1.14, p = 0.008) and MGIT media (HR 1.19, p < 0.001). In men, the presence of cavitation, positive HIV status, higher age, lower BMI and 'ever smoked' were independently associated with unfavourable treatment outcome. In women, only 'ever smoked' was independently associated with unfavourable treatment outcome. Only for cavitation was there a gender difference in treatment outcomes by regimen; their outcome in the 4-month arms was significantly poorer compared to the 6-month treatment arm (p < 0.001). Women, with or without cavities, and men without cavities had a similar outcome on all treatment arms (p = 0.218, 0.224 and 0.689 respectively). For all other covariate subgroups, there were no differences in treatment effects for men or women. CONCLUSIONS Gender differences in TB treatment responses for the shorter regimens in the REMoxTB study may be explained by poor outcomes in men with cavitation on the moxifloxacin-containing regimens. We observed that women with cavities, or without, on the 4-month moxifloxacin regimens had similar outcomes to all patients on the standard 6-month treatment. The biological reasons for this difference are poorly understood and require further exploration.
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Affiliation(s)
- M E Murphy
- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, England, UK.
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, England, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, England, UK
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- Madibeng Centre for Research, Brits, South Africa.,Department of Family Medicine, School of medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, England, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, England, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, England, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, England, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, England, UK
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- Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development, New York, NY, 10005, USA
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- Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development, New York, NY, 10005, USA
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, England, UK
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- School of Medicine, Medical and Biological Sciences Building, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9TF, Scotland, UK
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Tweed CD, Crook AM, Amukoye EI, Dawson R, Diacon AH, Hanekom M, McHugh TD, Mendel CM, Meredith SK, Murphy ME, Murthy SE, Nunn AJ, Phillips PPJ, Singh KP, Spigelman M, Wills GH, Gillespie SH. Toxicity associated with tuberculosis chemotherapy in the REMoxTB study. BMC Infect Dis 2018; 18:317. [PMID: 29996783 PMCID: PMC6042413 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3230-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The incidence and severity of tuberculosis chemotherapy toxicity is poorly characterised. We used data available from patients in the REMoxTB trial to provide an assessment of the risks associated with the standard regimen and two experimental regimens containing moxifloxacin. METHODS All grade 3 & 4 adverse events (AEs) and their relationship to treatment for patients who had taken at least one dose of therapy in the REMoxTB clinical trial were recorded. Univariable logistic regression was used to test the relationship of baseline characteristics to the incidence of grade 3 & 4 AEs and significant characteristics (p < 0.10) were incorporated into a multivariable model. The timing of AEs during therapy was analysed in standard therapy and the experimental arms. Logistic regression was used to investigate the relationship between AEs (total and related-only) and microbiological cure on treatment. RESULTS In the standard therapy arm 57 (8.9%) of 639 patients experienced ≥1 related AEs with 80 of the total 113 related events (70.8%) occurring in the intensive phase of treatment. Both four-month experimental arms ("isoniazid arm" with moxifloxacin substituted for ethambutol & "ethambutol arm" with moxifloxacin substituted for isoniazid) had a lower total of related grade 3 & 4 AEs than standard therapy (63 & 65 vs 113 AEs). Female gender (adjOR 1.97, 95% CI 0.91-1.83) and HIV-positive status (adjOR 3.33, 95% CI 1.55-7.14) were significantly associated with experiencing ≥1 related AE (p < 0.05) on standard therapy. The most common adverse events on standard therapy related to hepatobiliary, musculoskeletal and metabolic disorders. Patients who experienced ≥1 related AE were more likely to fail treatment or relapse (adjOR 3.11, 95% CI 1.59-6.10, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Most AEs considered related to standard therapy occurred in the intensive phase of treatment with female patients and HIV-positive patients demonstrating a significantly higher risk of AEs during treatment. Almost a tenth of standard therapy patients had a significant side effect, whereas both experimental arms recorded a lower incidence of toxicity. That patients with one or more AE are more likely to fail treatment suggests that treatment outcomes could be improved by identifying such patients through targeted monitoring.
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- Conor D. Tweed
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK
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- University of Cape Town Lung Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, UK
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- The Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
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Murphy ME, Phillips PPJ, Mendel CM, Bongard E, Bateson ALC, Hunt R, Murthy S, Singh KP, Brown M, Crook AM, Nunn AJ, Meredith SK, Lipman M, McHugh TD, Gillespie SH. Spot sputum samples are at least as good as early morning samples for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis. BMC Med 2017; 15:192. [PMID: 29073910 PMCID: PMC5658986 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-017-0947-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The use of early morning sputum samples (EMS) to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) can result in treatment delay given the need for the patient to return to the clinic with the EMS, increasing the chance of patients being lost during their diagnostic workup. However, there is little evidence to support the superiority of EMS over spot sputum samples. In this new analysis of the REMoxTB study, we compare the diagnostic accuracy of EMS with spot samples for identifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis pre- and post-treatment. METHODS Patients who were smear positive at screening were enrolled into the study. Paired sputum samples (one EMS and one spot) were collected at each trial visit pre- and post-treatment. Microscopy and culture on solid LJ and liquid MGIT media were performed on all samples; those missing corresponding paired results were excluded from the analyses. RESULTS Data from 1115 pre- and 2995 post-treatment paired samples from 1931 patients enrolled in the REMoxTB study were analysed. Patients were recruited from South Africa (47%), East Africa (21%), India (20%), Asia (11%), and North America (1%); 70% were male, median age 31 years (IQR 24-41), 139 (7%) co-infected with HIV with a median CD4 cell count of 399 cells/μL (IQR 318-535). Pre-treatment spot samples had a higher yield of positive Ziehl-Neelsen smears (98% vs. 97%, P = 0.02) and LJ cultures (87% vs. 82%, P = 0.006) than EMS, but there was no difference for positivity by MGIT (93% vs. 95%, P = 0.18). Contaminated and false-positive MGIT were found more often with EMS rather than spot samples. Surprisingly, pre-treatment EMS had a higher smear grading and shorter time-to-positivity, by 1 day, than spot samples in MGIT culture (4.5 vs. 5.5 days, P < 0.001). There were no differences in time to positivity in pre-treatment LJ culture, or in post-treatment MGIT or LJ cultures. Comparing EMS and spot samples in those with unfavourable outcomes, there were no differences in smear or culture results, and positive results were not detected earlier in Kaplan-Meier analyses in either EMS or spot samples. CONCLUSIONS Our data do not support the hypothesis that EMS samples are superior to spot sputum samples in a clinical trial of patients with smear positive pulmonary TB. Observed small differences in mycobacterial burden are of uncertain significance and EMS samples do not detect post-treatment positives any sooner than spot samples.
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- Michael E Murphy
- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK.
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- Medical Research Council UK Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK
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- Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development, New York, NY, 10005, USA
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Medical Research Council UK Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK
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- Medical Research Council UK Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK
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- Medical Research Council UK Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK
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- UCL Respiratory, Division of Medicine, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- UCL Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
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- School of Medicine, Medical and Biological Sciences, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9TF, UK.
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Tweed CD, Wills G, Crook AM, Meredith SK, Nunn AJ, Mendel CM, Murray SR, McHugh TD, Gillespie SH. S91 Liver function tests during tuberculosis treatment and the implications on monitoring for hepatotoxicity. Thorax 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209333.97] [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: 11/04/2022]
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Tweed CD, Wills G, Crook AM, Meredith SK, Nunn AJ, Mendel CM, Murray SR, McHugh TD, Gillespie SH. P119 Using adverse events in a tuberculosis trial to describe the tolerability of standard therapy. Thorax 2016. [DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209333.262] [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: 11/04/2022]
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Sydes MR, Johnson AL, Meredith SK, Rauchenberger M, South A, Parmar MKB. Sharing data from clinical trials: the rationale for a controlled access approach. Trials 2015; 16:104. [PMID: 25872927 PMCID: PMC4369803 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-0604-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Background The move towards increased transparency around clinical trials is welcome. Much focus has been on under-reporting of trials and access to individual patient data to allow independent verification of findings. There are many other good reasons for data sharing from clinical trials. We describe some key issues in data sharing, including the challenges of open access to data. These include issues in consent and disclosure; risks in identification, including self-identification; risks in distorting data to prevent self-identification; and risks in analysis. These risks have led us to develop a controlled access policy, which safeguards the rights of patients entered in our trials, guards the intellectual property rights of the original researchers who designed the trial and collected the data, provides a barrier against unnecessary duplication, and ensures that researchers have the necessary resources and skills to analyse the data. Methods We briefly discuss the practicalities of our current approach to data sharing, including ensuring that data are discoverable and how to deal with old studies. We describe data sharing activities at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit. Results One hundred and three data sharing activities were logged from 2012 to 2014 from external and internal applicants. The motivations are varied, but none have been for replication of the primary results. Conclusions For any request to share data, we note the important role of independent reviewers as well as reviewers who know the study well, and present some of the key questions that all reviewers should ask when deciding whether a request is reasonable. We consider the responsibilities of all parties. We highlight the potential for opportunity costs. Clinical trial data should be shared for reasonable requests but there are many practical issues that must be explicitly considered. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13063-015-0604-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Matthew R Sydes
- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH, UK.
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Gillespie SH, Crook AM, McHugh TD, Mendel CM, Meredith SK, Murray SR, Pappas F, Phillips PPJ, Nunn AJ. Four-month moxifloxacin-based regimens for drug-sensitive tuberculosis. N Engl J Med 2014; 371:1577-87. [PMID: 25196020 PMCID: PMC4277680 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1407426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 438] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Early-phase and preclinical studies suggest that moxifloxacin-containing regimens could allow for effective 4-month treatment of uncomplicated, smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial to test the noninferiority of two moxifloxacin-containing regimens as compared with a control regimen. One group of patients received isoniazid, rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for 8 weeks, followed by 18 weeks of isoniazid and rifampin (control group). In the second group, we replaced ethambutol with moxifloxacin for 17 weeks, followed by 9 weeks of placebo (isoniazid group), and in the third group, we replaced isoniazid with moxifloxacin for 17 weeks, followed by 9 weeks of placebo (ethambutol group). The primary end point was treatment failure or relapse within 18 months after randomization. RESULTS Of the 1931 patients who underwent randomization, in the per-protocol analysis, a favorable outcome was reported in fewer patients in the isoniazid group (85%) and the ethambutol group (80%) than in the control group (92%), for a difference favoring the control group of 6.1 percentage points (97.5% confidence interval [CI], 1.7 to 10.5) versus the isoniazid group and 11.4 percentage points (97.5% CI, 6.7 to 16.1) versus the ethambutol group. Results were consistent in the modified intention-to-treat analysis and all sensitivity analyses. The hazard ratios for the time to culture negativity in both solid and liquid mediums for the isoniazid and ethambutol groups, as compared with the control group, ranged from 1.17 to 1.25, indicating a shorter duration, with the lower bounds of the 95% confidence intervals exceeding 1.00 in all cases. There was no significant difference in the incidence of grade 3 or 4 adverse events, with events reported in 127 patients (19%) in the isoniazid group, 111 (17%) in the ethambutol group, and 123 (19%) in the control group. CONCLUSIONS The two moxifloxacin-containing regimens produced a more rapid initial decline in bacterial load, as compared with the control group. However, noninferiority for these regimens was not shown, which indicates that shortening treatment to 4 months was not effective in this setting. (Funded by the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development and others; REMoxTB ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00864383.).
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- Stephen H Gillespie
- From the University of St. Andrews Medical School, St. Andrews (S.H.G.), and the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (A.M.C., S.K.M., P.P.J.P., A.J.N.) and the Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London (T.D.M.), London - both in the United Kingdom; and the TB Alliance, New York (C.M.M., S.R.M., F.P.)
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Nunn AJ, Rusen ID, Van Deun A, Torrea G, Phillips PPJ, Chiang CY, Squire SB, Madan J, Meredith SK. Evaluation of a standardized treatment regimen of anti-tuberculosis drugs for patients with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 2014; 15:353. [PMID: 25199531 PMCID: PMC4164715 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [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: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 08/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In contrast to drug-sensitive tuberculosis, the guidelines for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have a very poor evidence base; current recommendations, based on expert opinion, are that patients should be treated for a minimum of 20 months. A series of cohort studies conducted in Bangladesh identified a nine-month regimen with very promising results. There is a need to evaluate this regimen in comparison with the currently recommended regimen in a randomized controlled trial in a variety of settings, including patients with HIV-coinfection. METHODS/DESIGN STREAM is a multi-centre randomized trial of non-inferiority design comparing a nine-month regimen to the treatment currently recommended by the World Health Organization in patients with MDR pulmonary TB with no evidence on line probe assay of fluoroquinolone or kanamycin resistance. The nine-month regimen includes clofazimine and high-dose moxifloxacin and can be extended to 11 months in the event of delay in smear conversion. The primary outcome is based on the bacteriological status of the patients at 27 months post-randomization. Based on the assumption that the nine-month regimen will be slightly more effective than the control regimen and, given a 10% margin of non-inferiority, a total of 400 patients are required to be enrolled. Health economics data are being collected on all patients in selected sites. DISCUSSION The results from the study in Bangladesh and cohorts in progress elsewhere are encouraging, but for this regimen to be recommended more widely than in a research setting, robust evidence is needed from a randomized clinical trial. Results from the STREAM trial together with data from ongoing cohorts should provide the evidence necessary to revise current recommendations for the treatment for MDR-TB. TRIAL REGISTRATION This trial was registered with clincaltrials.gov (registration number: ISRCTN78372190) on 14 October 2010.
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- Andrew J Nunn
- />Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH UK
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- />International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 68, bd Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France
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- />International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 68, bd Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France
- />Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
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- />Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
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- />Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH UK
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- />International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 68, bd Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris, France
- />Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, No 111, Section 3, Hsin-Long Road, Taipei City, 116 Taiwan
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- />Centre for Applied Health Research & Delivery, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA UK
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- />Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK
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- />Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6NH UK
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Thomas KS, Crook AM, Nunn AJ, Foster KA, Mason JM, Chalmers JR, Nasr IS, Brindle RJ, English J, Meredith SK, Reynolds NJ, de Berker D, Mortimer PS, Williams HC. Penicillin to prevent recurrent leg cellulitis. N Engl J Med 2013; 368:1695-703. [PMID: 23635049 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1206300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cellulitis of the leg is a common bacterial infection of the skin and underlying tissue. We compared prophylactic low-dose penicillin with placebo for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis. METHODS We conducted a double-blind, randomized, controlled trial involving patients with two or more episodes of cellulitis of the leg who were recruited in 28 hospitals in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Randomization was performed according to a computer-generated code, and study medications (penicillin [250 mg twice a day] or placebo for 12 months) were dispensed by a central pharmacy. The primary outcome was the time to a first recurrence. Participants were followed for up to 3 years. Because the risk of recurrence was not constant over the 3-year period, the primary hypothesis was tested during prophylaxis only. RESULTS A total of 274 patients were recruited. Baseline characteristics were similar in the two groups. The median time to a first recurrence of cellulitis was 626 days in the penicillin group and 532 days in the placebo group. During the prophylaxis phase, 30 of 136 participants in the penicillin group (22%) had a recurrence, as compared with 51 of 138 participants in the placebo group (37%) (hazard ratio, 0.55; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.35 to 0.86; P=0.01), yielding a number needed to treat to prevent one recurrent cellulitis episode of 5 (95% CI, 4 to 9). During the no-intervention follow-up period, there was no difference between groups in the rate of a first recurrence (27% in both groups). Overall, participants in the penicillin group had fewer repeat episodes than those in the placebo group (119 vs. 164, P=0.02 for trend). There was no significant between-group difference in the number of participants with adverse events (37 in the penicillin group and 48 in the placebo group, P=0.50). CONCLUSIONS In patients with recurrent cellulitis of the leg, penicillin was effective in preventing subsequent attacks during prophylaxis, but the protective effect diminished progressively once drug therapy was stopped. (Funded by Action Medical Research; PATCH I Controlled-Trials.com number, ISRCTN34716921.).
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- Kim S Thomas
- Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Welton AJ, Vickers MR, Kim J, Ford D, Lawton BA, MacLennan AH, Meredith SK, Martin J, Meade TW. Health related quality of life after combined hormone replacement therapy: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2008; 337:a1190. [PMID: 18719013 PMCID: PMC2518695 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a1190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) on health related quality of life. DESIGN Randomised placebo controlled double blind trial. SETTING General practices in United Kingdom (384), Australia (94), and New Zealand (24). PARTICIPANTS Postmenopausal women aged 50-69 at randomisation; 3721 women with a uterus were randomised to combined oestrogen and progestogen (n=1862) or placebo (n=1859). Data on health related quality of life at one year were available from 1043 and 1087 women, respectively. INTERVENTIONS Conjugated equine oestrogen 0.625 mg plus medroxyprogesterone acetate 2.5/5.0 mg or matched placebo orally daily for one year. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Health related quality of life and psychological wellbeing as measured by the women's health questionnaire. Changes in emotional and physical menopausal symptoms as measured by a symptoms questionnaire and depression by the Centre for Epidemiological Studies depression scale (CES-D). Overall health related quality of life and overall quality of life as measured by the European quality of life instrument (EuroQol) and visual analogue scale, respectively. RESULTS After one year small but significant improvements were observed in three of nine components of the women's health questionnaire for those taking combined HRT compared with those taking placebo: vasomotor symptoms (P<0.001), sexual functioning (P<0.001), and sleep problems (P<0.001). Significantly fewer women in the combined HRT group reported hot flushes (P<0.001), night sweats (P<0.001), aching joints and muscles (P=0.001), insomnia (P<0.001), and vaginal dryness (P<0.001) than in the placebo group, but greater proportions reported breast tenderness (P<0.001) or vaginal discharge (P<0.001). Hot flushes were experienced in the combined HRT and placebo groups by 30% and 29% at trial entry and 9% and 25% at one year, respectively. No significant differences in other menopausal symptoms, depression, or overall quality of life were observed at one year. CONCLUSIONS Combined HRT started many years after the menopause can improve health related quality of life. TRIAL REGISTRATION ISRCTN 63718836.
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- Amanda J Welton
- MRC General Practice Research Framework, Stephenson House, London NW1 2ND
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Vickers MR, MacLennan AH, Lawton B, Ford D, Martin J, Meredith SK, DeStavola BL, Rose S, Dowell A, Wilkes HC, Darbyshire JH, Meade TW. Main morbidities recorded in the women's international study of long duration oestrogen after menopause (WISDOM): a randomised controlled trial of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women. BMJ 2007; 335:239. [PMID: 17626056 PMCID: PMC1939792 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39266.425069.ad] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To assess the long term risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (combined hormone therapy versus placebo, and oestrogen alone versus combined hormone therapy). DESIGN Multicentre, randomised, placebo controlled, double blind trial. SETTING General practices in UK (384), Australia (91), and New Zealand (24). PARTICIPANTS Postmenopausal women aged 50-69 years at randomisation. At early closure of the trial, 56,583 had been screened, 8980 entered run-in, and 5692 (26% of target of 22,300) started treatment. INTERVENTIONS Oestrogen only therapy (conjugated equine oestrogens 0.625 mg orally daily) or combined hormone therapy (conjugated equine oestrogens plus medroxyprogesterone acetate 2.5/5.0 mg orally daily). Ten years of treatment planned. PRIMARY OUTCOMES major cardiovascular disease, osteoporotic fractures, and breast cancer. SECONDARY OUTCOMES other cancers, death from all causes, venous thromboembolism, cerebrovascular disease, dementia, and quality of life. RESULTS The trial was prematurely closed during recruitment, after a median follow-up of 11.9 months (interquartile range 7.1-19.6, total 6498 women years) in those enrolled, after the publication of early results from the women's health initiative study. The mean age of randomised women was 62.8 (SD 4.8) years. When combined hormone therapy (n=2196) was compared with placebo (n=2189), there was a significant increase in the number of major cardiovascular events (7 v 0, P=0.016) and venous thromboembolisms (22 v 3, hazard ratio 7.36 (95% CI 2.20 to 24.60)). There were no statistically significant differences in numbers of breast or other cancers (22 v 25, hazard ratio 0.88 (0.49 to 1.56)), cerebrovascular events (14 v 19, 0.73 (0.37 to 1.46)), fractures (40 v 58, 0.69 (0.46 to 1.03)), and overall deaths (8 v 5, 1.60 (0.52 to 4.89)). Comparison of combined hormone therapy (n=815) versus oestrogen therapy (n=826) outcomes revealed no significant differences. CONCLUSIONS Hormone replacement therapy increases cardiovascular and thromboembolic risk when started many years after the menopause. The results are consistent with the findings of the women's health initiative study and secondary prevention studies. Research is needed to assess the long term risks and benefits of starting hormone replacement therapy near the menopause, when the effect may be different. TRIAL REGISTRATION Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN 63718836.
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- Madge R Vickers
- MRC General Practice Research Framework, Stephenson House, London NW1 2ND
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OBJECTIVE To examine the quantitative relation between exposure to isocyanates and occupational asthma, and to explore the role of atopy and smoking in occurrence of the disease. METHOD A case-referent study was undertaken of cases from two manufacturing companies (A and B) from which referents without disease could be selected and reliable exposure measurements were available. In company A, 27 cases mainly attributed to toluene diisocyanate (TDI) were matched to 51 referents on work area, start and duration of employment, sex, and age. Exposures were estimated from existing measurements by job category. In company B there were seven cases attributed to 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) in two areas of the plant; 12 non-cases from the same areas were used as referents. Personal exposure measurements were available for all cases and 11 referents. RESULTS No difference in peak exposures between cases and referents was found in either plant; but in both, time weighted average (TWA) exposures at the time of onset of asthma were higher for cases. In A, the mean TWA exposure for cases was 1.5 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.2 to 1.8) ppb compared with 1.2 (1.0 to 1.4) ppb for referents. From a matched analysis, the odds ratio (OR) associated with 8 hour TWA exposure to isocyanates greater than 1.125 ppb (the median concentration for the referent group) was 3.2 (95% CI 0.96 to 10.6; p=0.06). Occupational asthma was associated with a pre-employment history of atopic illness (OR 3. 5, p=0.04) and, less strongly, with smoking (OR 2.1, p=0.14). In B, small numbers limited analysis, but three of seven cases had at least one TWA exposure measurement greater than 5 ppb compared with one of 11 referents (OR 7.5, p=0.09). CONCLUSION Asthma can occur at low concentrations of isocyanates, but even at low concentrations, the higher the exposure the greater the risk. By contrast with other studies, smoking and atopy seemed to increase the odds of occupational asthma due to isocyanates, but did not affect the estimate of risk associated with exposure.
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- S K Meredith
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit, 222 Euston Road, London NW1 2DA, UK
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OBJECTIVES To examine trends in estimated population based incidence of occupational asthma by age, sex, occupation, geographical region, and causal agents based on 9 years of the Surveillance of Work Related and Occupational Respiratory Disease (SWORD) data. METHODS In January 1989 the SWORD scheme for the surveillance of occupational respiratory disease was established in the United Kingdom to make good the lack of epidemiological information on the incidence of these diseases in the United Kingdom. Between 80% and 90% of chest and occupational physicians report voluntarily all new cases they see, on a monthly or random sampling basis. During the 9 years 1989-97, an estimated 25 674 new cases of occupational respiratory disease, including 7387 of occupational asthma, were reported. Suspected causal agents were classified into 44 categories and estimated annual incidences of asthma were calculated with denominators from the labour force survey. RESULTS Overall, a third of the suspected causes of asthma were organic, a third chemical, 6% metallic, and the rest miscellaneous, or in 8%, unknown. There was evidence of an increase since 1989 in cases due to latex, and possibly glutaraldehyde, and an apparent drop since 1991 in the proportion of cases attributed to isocyanates. Incidences were higher in men than women and the disparity was especially marked in the population aged 45 years or more in which rates for men were at least twice those for women. Average annual rates per million workers for 1992-7 ranged from 7 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 5 to 9) for the lowest risk group of professional, clerical, and service workers to 1464 (95% CI 968 to 2173) for coach and other spray painters. Except for laboratory technicians, all other occupations with rates over 100 were concerned with manufacturing and processing that used chemicals, metals, and organic materials. Incidences were two to three times higher in the north and midlands than in East Anglia and the south. The introduction of a sampling scheme in 1992 doubled estimates of reported incidence of occupational asthma, but there was little evidence of other temporal changes. CONCLUSIONS The SWORD scheme has produced consistent estimates of the causes and incidence of occupational asthma as seen by chest and occupational physicians. It has allowed the epidemiology of occupational asthma in the population to be studied and high risk occupations to be identified. There is certainly more occupational asthma in the population than that which reaches specialists in occupational and chest medicine; therefore the incidence rates presented here are underestimates, but by how much remains unknown.
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- J C McDonald
- Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK
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Some 3500 new cases of occupational respiratory disease are estimated to have been seen annually by SWORD participants in 1992 and 1993 with little important difference between the two years. As the number of new cases recognized and reported by chest physicians is close to complete, the estimated incidence is essentially correct. The pattern of disease which clearly emerges shows that at least half is attributable to asbestos exposure, despite the fact that lung cancer from this cause may be under-reported. Benign pleural disease comprises a large proportion of the cases, the long-term implications of which are unknown. Almost 40% of the cases reported are of occupational asthma or inhalation accidents, both due to a very large number of different agents and affecting many and varied occupations. These cases are preventable providing their occupational aetiology is recognized and appropriate measures of control are intensified.
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- B A Sallie
- Surveillance Unit, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK
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The objective of this project is the creation of a reliable and cost-effective national system of surveillance for work-related respiratory disease as a basis for control and simple epidemiological research. With the voluntary participation of almost 800 chest and occupational physicians from throughout the UK, newly diagnosed cases of respiratory illness thought to be due to occupational factors have been reported regularly since January 1989. Since January 1992, reports from chest physicians have been submitted monthly by a core group with special interest in occupational lung disease (n = 32) and rotating random samples of the remainder. Between 1989 and 1991, 5576 new cases were reported, of which half were diseases of long latency mainly due to asbestos, 28% were occupational asthma, and the rest were divided between inhalation accidents (10%) and a variety of other acute diseases (14%). Disease incidence rates, with denominators from the Labour Force Survey, showed a very high risk of asthma among paint sprayers, chemical and food processors, laboratory staff, plastics and metal treatment workers, and in welding and electronic assembly. Some of the same groups also experienced high rates of inhalation accidents and bronchitis. The risk of diseases of long latency, using denominators from the 1961 census, was highest in shipyard and dock workers, miners and construction workers. The SWORD scheme has provided estimates of disease incidence not previously available, has encouraged awareness of occupational factors among chest physicians, has assisted those responsible for prevention and control, and has demonstrated the feasibility of this approach to surveillance.
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- S K Meredith
- Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK
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BACKGROUND A study was designed to determine the extent of the interaction between tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus infection in England and Wales. METHODS Data were obtained from the United Kingdom national AIDS surveillance and the Medical Research Council tuberculosis notification surveys in England and Wales (1983 and 1988). The proportion of patients reported with AIDS known to have had tuberculosis and the proportion of patients notified with tuberculosis known to have HIV infection were estimated. RESULTS Of the 4360 patients with AIDS reported by 30 June 1991, 200 (4.6%) were in patients reported to have had tuberculosis. Only one of the 3002 patients (0.03%) reported in the 1983 survey of tuberculosis notifications in England and Wales was known to be infected with HIV compared with nine of 2163 patients (0.42%) in the 1988 survey. CONCLUSION Although the reported number of cases of HIV infection with tuberculosis in this country is increasing it remains small. Complete reporting of cases of AIDS and notification of cases of tuberculosis are essential to enable the two infections to be monitored as the HIV epidemic develops. Special studies, such as those reported here, will need to be undertaken regularly to assess the future extent of the interaction.
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- J M Watson
- Public Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London
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Meredith SK, Taylor VM, McDonald JC. Occupational respiratory disease in the United Kingdom 1989: a report to the British Thoracic Society and the Society of Occupational Medicine by the SWORD project group. Br J Ind Med 1991; 48:292-298. [PMID: 2039741 PMCID: PMC1012037 DOI: 10.1136/oem.48.5.292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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A voluntary scheme for the surveillance of work related and occupational respiratory disease (SWORD) was established in January 1989 with help from the British Thoracic Society and the Society of Occupational Medicine and support from the Health and Safety Executive. Three hundred and fifty four chest physicians representing 90% of the chest clinics in the United Kingdom and 361 occupational physicians submit reports regularly of newly diagnosed cases of work related respiratory illness with information on age, sex, residence, occupation, and suspected causal agent. In 1989 2101 cases were notified, of which frequent diagnoses were asthma (26%), mesothelioma (16%), pneumoconiosis (15%), benign pleural disease (11%), and allergic alveolitis (6%). Incidence rates calculated against denominators from the Labour Force Survey showed very large differences between occupational groups, especially for asthma and asbestos related diseases. Substantial regional variation in the incidence of asthma was not explained by the geographical distribution of high risk industries and was probably due to differing levels of ascertainment. The results imply that the true frequency of acute occupational respiratory disease in the United Kingdom may have been three times greater than that reported.
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- S K Meredith
- Epidemiological Research Unit, National Heart and Lung Institute, London Chest Hospital
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For a study of fatality in pulmonary tuberculosis in England and Wales, a sample (n = 1222) of patients notified in 1983 as having tuberculosis confined to the lungs was selected and their mortality up to the time of finishing chemotherapy calculated. During that time 158 patients died, a case fatality of 12.9%. Stratification by age and radiographic extent of disease confirmed these as important predictors of death. Comparison with a referent population showed that the all cause mortality among people with pulmonary tuberculosis was 10 times greater than that of the age and sex matched general population. This ratio fell with increasing age and with extent of disease. Coefficients derived from a logistic regression analysis allowed probability of death during chemotherapy of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis to be estimated.
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- P Cullinan
- Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Brompton and National Heart and Lung Institute, London
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