Food and Drug Administration Analysis of Ticagrelor

Autor: John Lawrence, Tzu-Yun McDowell, Norman Stockbridge, Melanie Blank
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Ticagrelor
Acute coronary syndrome
medicine.medical_specialty
Adenosine
Time Factors
Clinical Decision-Making
Population
Myocardial Infarction
Hemorrhage
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Risk Assessment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Recurrence
Risk Factors
Physiology (medical)
Secondary Prevention
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Intensive care medicine
Drug Approval
Stroke
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
education.field_of_study
United States Food and Drug Administration
business.industry
Absolute risk reduction
medicine.disease
United States
Clinical trial
Treatment Outcome
Purinergic P2Y Receptor Antagonists
Medical emergency
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Risk assessment
Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
Mace
medicine.drug
Zdroj: Circulation. 134:1500-1502
ISSN: 1524-4539
0009-7322
Popis: Prognostic enrichment strategies are often used in cardiovascular outcome trials and enroll patients who are at higher risk for cardiovascular outcome events. By increasing the rate of outcome events, prognostic enrichment increases the absolute difference between treatment and control groups for a given risk reduction, making the demonstration of efficacy more efficient.1 However, this strategy poses an important practical question: Can the trial results be generalized to lower-risk individuals? This determination is particularly challenging when the drug poses a serious risk (eg, bleeding), because the benefit-risk balance for drug treatment could conceivably be considerably less favorable in the lower-risk patients than in the enriched populations, and preclude extrapolation of trial results to lower-risk individuals. We discuss here the Food and Drug Administration risk-benefit analysis to inform a regulatory decision regarding the scope of a new indication for ticagrelor (Brilinta, AstraZeneca), a platelet inhibitor originally approved in 2011 for the reduction of major adverse cardiac events (MACE; the composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction [MI], or stroke) in patients with acute coronary syndrome. The new indication for secondary prevention of MACE in patients with a prior MI was approved without imposing any restrictions of use to high-risk patients. In 2015, the Food and Drug Administration received an efficacy supplement, proposing to expand the indication for ticagrelor beyond the acute setting; data submitted in support of this proposal came from the PEGASUS study (The Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with …
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