Real-world outcomes among patients with cystic fibrosis treated with ivacaftor: 2012-2016 experience.
Author(s)
Higgins, Mark
Volkova, Nataliya
Moy, Kristin
Marshall, Bruce C
Bilton, Diana
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: In this long-term, postapproval, observational study, data from the US Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry and the UK Cystic Fibrosis Registry were used to evaluate the impact of ivacaftor treatment on cystic fibrosis (CF) by comparing outcomes in ivacaftor-treated patients with those in matched untreated comparator patients. Registry data from up to 5 years of ivacaftor availability in the US and up to 4 years of availability in the UK were evaluated. METHODS: Starting in the first year of ivacaftor availability, ivacaftor-treated patients in each registry were matched 1:5 to comparator patients who never received ivacaftor. Clinical endpoints were evaluated in annual cross-sectional safety analyses. The key endpoints were death, organ transplants, pulmonary exacerbation, and hospitalization. Relative risks and 95% CIs were calculated to compare the ivacaftor and comparator cohorts in each registry. RESULTS: Here, we report the complete and final results of the annual cross-sectional safety analyses across the duration of the study, with up to 5 years of follow-up. Data show a pattern of lower risk of death, transplant, pulmonary exacerbation, and hospitalization among ivacaftor-treated patients in both registries. CONCLUSIONS: Ivacaftor-treated patients had consistently favorable clinical outcomes relative to untreated comparators, and no new safety concerns were identified. While general limitations of observational research apply, these findings support disease modification by CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator therapy with ivacaftor. Future research of novel CFTR modulators will need to explore alternative methods for comparator selection for evaluation of clinical data given the evolving landscape of CF treatment.
Date Issued
2020-06
Date Acceptance
2020-04-01
Citation
Pulmonary Therapy, 2020, 6 (1), pp.141-149
ISSN
2364-1746
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
141
End Page
149
Journal / Book Title
Pulmonary Therapy
Volume
6
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
License URL
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32304091
PII: 10.1007/s41030-020-00115-8
Subjects
Cystic fibrosis
Ivacaftor
Long-term safety
Real-world data
Registry
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States
Date Publish Online
2020-04-18