Quality of life in patients aged 65 years and older with overactive bladder treated with mirabegron across eight European countries: Secondary analysis of BELIEVE

Autor: Jameel Nazir, Anny Stari, Moses Huang, Nurul Choudhury, Robert Freeman, Stephen Foley
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological AssociationReferences. 26(9)
ISSN: 1442-2042
Popis: OBJECTIVES To describe quality of life outcomes in patients with overactive bladder aged ≥65 years receiving mirabegron, a β3-adrenoreceptor agonist (BELIEVE). METHODS BELIEVE was a European, prospective, non-interventional, real-world study of 848 patients with overactive bladder prescribed mirabegron in clinical practice. Overactive bladder questionnaire subscales were prespecified primary end-points, analyzed in the full analysis set (patients completing the questionnaire at baseline and ≥1 follow-up visit) and per protocol set (patients still taking mirabegron at 10-12 months) using accepted standards for minimally important differences (10 points). RESULTS Nearly half of the patients in the full analysis set (380/796 [47.7%]) and per protocol set (224/452 [49.6%]) were aged ≥65 years. Similar proportions of patients aged ≥65 years (224/407; 55.0%) and
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