TY - JOUR
T1 - Effectiveness of denosumab for fracture prevention in real-world postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
T2 - a retrospective cohort study
AU - Lai, E. C.C.
AU - Lin, T. C.
AU - Lange, J. L.
AU - Chen, L.
AU - Wong, I. C.K.
AU - Sing, C. W.
AU - Cheung, C. L.
AU - Shao, S. C.
AU - Yang, Y. H.Kao
N1 - Funding Information:
ECCL has received honoraria from AbbVie, grant funding from Amgen, AbbVie and Takeda, and financial support from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology; TCL, JLL, and LC are employees and stockholders of Amgen; ICKW has received grant support from Amgen; YHKY has received grant support from Amgen; CWS, CLC, and SCS have no conflicts to disclose.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Summary: To determine denosumab’s effectiveness for fracture prevention among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in East Asia, the risk of fracture was compared between patients continuing denosumab therapy versus patients discontinuing denosumab after one dose. The real-world effectiveness was observed to be consistent with the efficacy demonstrated in the phase III trial. Introduction: After therapeutic efficacy is demonstrated for subjects in global clinical trials, real-world evidence may provide complementary knowledge of therapeutic effectiveness in a heterogeneous mix of patients seen in clinical practice. This retrospective cohort study was conducted to compare the fracture risk in real-world clinical care received in Taiwan and Hong Kong between a treatment cohort (patients receiving denosumab 60 mg subcutaneously every 6 months) versus an off-treatment cohort (patients discontinuing after 1 dose of denosumab, which has no known clinical benefit) among real-world postmenopausal women. Methods: This study included 38,906 and 2,835 postmenopausal women receiving denosumab in Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively. The primary endpoint was hip fracture, and secondary endpoints were clinical vertebral and nonvertebral fractures. Propensity-score-matched analysis, adjusting for known covariates, was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The robustness of findings was evaluated with a series of sensitivity and quantitative bias analyses. Results: In this study, 554 hip fractures were included in the primary Taiwan population analysis. The crude incidence rate was 0.9 per 100 person-years in the treatment cohort (n = 25,059) and 1.7 per 100 person-years in the off-treatment cohort (n = 13,847). After adjusting for prognostic differences between cohorts, denosumab reduced the risk of hip fractures by 38% (HR = 0.62, CI:0.52–0.75). Risk reductions of similar magnitude were observed for the secondary endpoints and for the analysis of the smaller Hong Kong population. Conclusion: The effectiveness of denosumab for fracture reduction among real-world postmenopausal women with osteoporosis was consistent with the efficacy demonstrated in a global clinical trial. Registration: EnCePP registration number: EUPAS26372; registration date: 12/11/2018.
AB - Summary: To determine denosumab’s effectiveness for fracture prevention among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in East Asia, the risk of fracture was compared between patients continuing denosumab therapy versus patients discontinuing denosumab after one dose. The real-world effectiveness was observed to be consistent with the efficacy demonstrated in the phase III trial. Introduction: After therapeutic efficacy is demonstrated for subjects in global clinical trials, real-world evidence may provide complementary knowledge of therapeutic effectiveness in a heterogeneous mix of patients seen in clinical practice. This retrospective cohort study was conducted to compare the fracture risk in real-world clinical care received in Taiwan and Hong Kong between a treatment cohort (patients receiving denosumab 60 mg subcutaneously every 6 months) versus an off-treatment cohort (patients discontinuing after 1 dose of denosumab, which has no known clinical benefit) among real-world postmenopausal women. Methods: This study included 38,906 and 2,835 postmenopausal women receiving denosumab in Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively. The primary endpoint was hip fracture, and secondary endpoints were clinical vertebral and nonvertebral fractures. Propensity-score-matched analysis, adjusting for known covariates, was used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The robustness of findings was evaluated with a series of sensitivity and quantitative bias analyses. Results: In this study, 554 hip fractures were included in the primary Taiwan population analysis. The crude incidence rate was 0.9 per 100 person-years in the treatment cohort (n = 25,059) and 1.7 per 100 person-years in the off-treatment cohort (n = 13,847). After adjusting for prognostic differences between cohorts, denosumab reduced the risk of hip fractures by 38% (HR = 0.62, CI:0.52–0.75). Risk reductions of similar magnitude were observed for the secondary endpoints and for the analysis of the smaller Hong Kong population. Conclusion: The effectiveness of denosumab for fracture reduction among real-world postmenopausal women with osteoporosis was consistent with the efficacy demonstrated in a global clinical trial. Registration: EnCePP registration number: EUPAS26372; registration date: 12/11/2018.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00198-021-06291-w
DO - 10.1007/s00198-021-06291-w
M3 - Article
C2 - 35032187
AN - SCOPUS:85123061132
SN - 0937-941X
VL - 33
SP - 1155
EP - 1164
JO - Osteoporosis International
JF - Osteoporosis International
IS - 5
ER -