Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Who Respond to Treatment with Anti-tumor Necrosis Factor Agents Demonstrate Improvement in Pre-treatment Frailty

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BACKGROUND: Frailty may be a risk factor for complications in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) patients. We examined the impact of treatment on IBD patients who were frail prior to treatment and identified predictors of post-treatment change in frailty.

METHODS: In an electronic health record-based cohort of IBD patients initiating anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α agents, we applied a validated claims-based frailty index to determine frailty in the 1 year prior to and after treatment initiation. We characterized treatment non-response using a composite outcome of IBD-related hospitalization, surgery, change in therapy, or initiation of systemic steroids. We constructed multivariable logistic regression models to identify determinants of post-treatment frailty.

RESULTS: The 1210 patients initiating anti-TNF therapy had a median age of 30 years; 20% were ≥ 50 years. In the first year after anti-TNF initiation, 40% were non-responders. Many more treatment non-responders were frail in the year following treatment compared with treatment responders (27% vs 7%, p < 0.001). Pre-treatment frailty (OR 2.01, 95% CI 1.35-3.00) and prior IBD-related hospitalization (OR 1.63, 95% CI 1.15-2.30) were independently predictive of higher likelihood of post-treatment frailty. Therapy response was associated with a lower likelihood (OR 0.24, 95% CI 0.16-0.34) of post-treatment frailty. Nearly 85% of patients who were frail prior to treatment demonstrated improvement in frailty following treatment CONCLUSIONS: Response to anti-TNF therapy is an important determinant of post-treatment frailty in patients with IBD. Our findings suggest that effectively treating inflammatory states in older patients with IBD may improve frailty.

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CommentIn: Dig Dis Sci. 2022 Feb;67(2):406-407. - PMID 33932197

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:67

Enthalten in:

Digestive diseases and sciences - 67(2022), 2 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 622-628

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kochar, Bharati D [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Winston [VerfasserIn]
Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adalimumab
Anti-tumor necrosis factor
B72HH48FLU
FYS6T7F842
Frailty
Function
Inflammatory bowel disease
Infliximab
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Treatment
Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors

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Date Completed 07.03.2022

Date Revised 02.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Dig Dis Sci. 2022 Feb;67(2):406-407. - PMID 33932197

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10620-021-06990-8

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NLM324853181