Lanting Yang, Jingchuan Guo, Sandra L Kane-Gill, Nico Gabriel, Kerry M Empey, Kangho Suh, Levent Kirisci, Inmaculada Hernandez
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Abstract
Purpose: To characterize trajectories of nephrotoxic potential (NxP) drug use among older adults with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) treated with SGLT2is and identify associated patient characteristics.
Methods: Using 2012-2019 Medicare data, we selected patients with T2D who filled at least one prescription for SGLT2is. Index date was the date of the first SGLT2i prescription filled. We quantified the number of drugs with NxP used every month during the first 12 months following the index date. The monthly counts of drugs with NxP were incorporated into the group-based trajectory model to identify groups with similar drug use patterns. Finally, we performed a multinomial logistic regression model to examine the association between patient characteristics and group membership.
Results: The study cohort comprised 8811 Medicare beneficiaries with T2D who initiated SGLT2i during the study period with the mean age 67.5 ± 10.6 years. We identified 3 trajectories NxP drug use: no (n = 2142, 24%), low (n = 4752, 54%) and high (n = 1917, 22%) use of drugs with NxP, with patients falling into these categories based on the number of drugs with NxP they used over the time: no drugs, one drug, or two or more drugs. Age, gender, low-income subsidy eligibility and clinical characteristics were associated with group membership.
Conclusions: We successfully identified three trajectory groups, with a substantial proportion of patients showing low use of drugs with NxP. Both social and clinical factors were associated with the use of NxP drugs.
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The aim of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety is to provide an international forum for the communication and evaluation of data, methods and opinion in the discipline of pharmacoepidemiology. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed reports of original research, invited reviews and a variety of guest editorials and commentaries embracing scientific, medical, statistical, legal and economic aspects of pharmacoepidemiology and post-marketing surveillance of drug safety. Appropriate material in these categories may also be considered for publication as a Brief Report.
Particular areas of interest include:
design, analysis, results, and interpretation of studies looking at the benefit or safety of specific pharmaceuticals, biologics, or medical devices, including studies in pharmacovigilance, postmarketing surveillance, pharmacoeconomics, patient safety, molecular pharmacoepidemiology, or any other study within the broad field of pharmacoepidemiology;
comparative effectiveness research relating to pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices. Comparative effectiveness research is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor a clinical condition, as these methods are truly used in the real world;
methodologic contributions of relevance to pharmacoepidemiology, whether original contributions, reviews of existing methods, or tutorials for how to apply the methods of pharmacoepidemiology;
assessments of harm versus benefit in drug therapy;
patterns of drug utilization;
relationships between pharmacoepidemiology and the formulation and interpretation of regulatory guidelines;
evaluations of risk management plans and programmes relating to pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices.