Drug-induced acute myocardial infarction : identifying 'prime suspects' from electronic healthcare records-based surveillance system

BACKGROUND: Drug-related adverse events remain an important cause of morbidity and mortality and impose huge burden on healthcare costs. Routinely collected electronic healthcare data give a good snapshot of how drugs are being used in 'real-world' settings.

OBJECTIVE: To describe a strategy that identifies potentially drug-induced acute myocardial infarction (AMI) from a large international healthcare data network.

METHODS: Post-marketing safety surveillance was conducted in seven population-based healthcare databases in three countries (Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands) using anonymised demographic, clinical, and prescription/dispensing data representing 21,171,291 individuals with 154,474,063 person-years of follow-up in the period 1996-2010. Primary care physicians' medical records and administrative claims containing reimbursements for filled prescriptions, laboratory tests, and hospitalisations were evaluated using a three-tier triage system of detection, filtering, and substantiation that generated a list of drugs potentially associated with AMI. Outcome of interest was statistically significant increased risk of AMI during drug exposure that has not been previously described in current literature and is biologically plausible.

RESULTS: Overall, 163 drugs were identified to be associated with increased risk of AMI during preliminary screening. Of these, 124 drugs were eliminated after adjustment for possible bias and confounding. With subsequent application of criteria for novelty and biological plausibility, association with AMI remained for nine drugs ('prime suspects'): azithromycin; erythromycin; roxithromycin; metoclopramide; cisapride; domperidone; betamethasone; fluconazole; and megestrol acetate.

LIMITATIONS: Although global health status, co-morbidities, and time-invariant factors were adjusted for, residual confounding cannot be ruled out.

CONCLUSION: A strategy to identify potentially drug-induced AMI from electronic healthcare data has been proposed that takes into account not only statistical association, but also public health relevance, novelty, and biological plausibility. Although this strategy needs to be further evaluated using other healthcare data sources, the list of 'prime suspects' makes a good starting point for further clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic investigation.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: PLoS One. 2013;8(9). doi:10.1371/annotation/8824e161-bf8f-4f78-81e0-a62a1540276d

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2013

Erschienen:

2013

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

PloS one - 8(2013), 8 vom: 01., Seite e72148

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Coloma, Preciosa M [VerfasserIn]
Schuemie, Martijn J [VerfasserIn]
Trifirò, Gianluca [VerfasserIn]
Furlong, Laura [VerfasserIn]
van Mulligen, Erik [VerfasserIn]
Bauer-Mehren, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Avillach, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Kors, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Sanz, Ferran [VerfasserIn]
Mestres, Jordi [VerfasserIn]
Oliveira, José Luis [VerfasserIn]
Boyer, Scott [VerfasserIn]
Helgee, Ernst Ahlberg [VerfasserIn]
Molokhia, Mariam [VerfasserIn]
Matthews, Justin [VerfasserIn]
Prieto-Merino, David [VerfasserIn]
Gini, Rosa [VerfasserIn]
Herings, Ron [VerfasserIn]
Mazzaglia, Giampiero [VerfasserIn]
Picelli, Gino [VerfasserIn]
Scotti, Lorenza [VerfasserIn]
Pedersen, Lars [VerfasserIn]
van der Lei, Johan [VerfasserIn]
Sturkenboom, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
EU-ADR consortium [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

5587267Z69
83905-01-5
8VZV102JFY
9842X06Q6M
Azithromycin
Betamethasone
Cisapride
Domperidone
Fluconazole
Journal Article
L4YEB44I46
Megestrol Acetate
Metoclopramide
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
TJ2M0FR8ES
UVL329170W

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Date Completed 22.05.2014

Date Revised 30.03.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

ErratumIn: PLoS One. 2013;8(9). doi:10.1371/annotation/8824e161-bf8f-4f78-81e0-a62a1540276d

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0072148

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM230682510