Prescribing Patterns of Dupilumab for Atopic Dermatitis in Adults : Retrospective, Observational Cohort Study

©Torunn E Sivesind, Ani Oganesyan, Grace Bosma, Camille Hochheimer, Lisa M Schilling, Robert Dellavalle. Originally published in JMIR Dermatology (http://derma.jmir.org), 30.08.2023..

BACKGROUND: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory disease caused by a type 2 T helper cell-mediated immune response to environmental antigens. Approximately 1 in 5 patients with AD presents with moderate to severe disease, and treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration include emollients, topical glucocorticoids, and calcineurin inhibitors. Dupilumab, a fully human monoclonal antibody, improves AD via inhibition of interleukin-4 and interleukin-13.

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to characterize the prescribing patterns of dupilumab for AD in adults at a large university-affiliated health system.

METHODS: A retrospective, observational cohort study was conducted using electronic data from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics database, assessing data from the University of Colorado Medical Campus and its affiliates. The outcome measured was the prevalence of dupilumab prescribed for adults with AD (n=6421), between March 28, 2013, and March 28, 2021. We assessed whether the characteristics of patients who received dupilumab were different from those who did not. Each patient characteristic was assessed using a univariate logistic regression with the binary outcome of receiving or not receiving dupilumab.

RESULTS: We found a population prevalence of 5.6% (6421/114,476) for AD. In our cohort, Black patients with AD were more than twice as likely to have received dupilumab compared to White patients (odds ratio 2.352, 95% CI 1.58-3.39). Patients with a diagnosis of atopic neurodermatitis were approximately twice as likely to have received dupilumab compared to those with other diagnostic variants of AD (odds ratio 1.87, 95% CI 1.01-3.22).

CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate that both patient racial characteristics and specific AD diagnoses were associated with variations in dupilumab prescription patterns.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

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JMIR dermatology - 6(2023) vom: 30. Aug., Seite e41194

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sivesind, Torunn E [VerfasserIn]
Oganesyan, Ani [VerfasserIn]
Bosma, Grace [VerfasserIn]
Hochheimer, Camille [VerfasserIn]
Schilling, Lisa M [VerfasserIn]
Dellavalle, Robert [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adults
Asthma
Atopic dermatitis
Biologics
Chronic sinusitis
Data
Dermatitis
Dermatologist
Dermatology
Disease
Dupilumab
Dupixent
Eczema
Eosinophilic
Immune
Immune response
Inflammatory
Journal Article
Monoclonal antibody
Nasal polyp
Neurodermatitis
Prescribing patterns
Systemic treatment

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Date Revised 16.09.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2196/41194

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NLM361449879