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ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2019

Association of atorvastatin with the risk of hepatotoxicity: a pilot prescription sequence symmetry analysis.

Haiping Zhang, Jiani Wu, Zhuolin Zhang, Haisheng Qian, Yifan Wang, Miaomiao Yang, Yinchu Cheng, Shaowen Tang

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Article in Therapeutics and clinical risk management, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Haiping ZhangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Jiani WuDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Zhuolin ZhangDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Haisheng QianDepartment of Internal Medicine, The First Clinical Medical College, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210029, People's Republic of China.
Yifan WangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Miaomiao YangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Yinchu ChengDepartment of Pharmacy, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, People's Republic of China.
Shaowen TangDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, People's Republic of China.
Nanjing Medical University · CNPeking University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study aimed to evaluate Atorvastatin (ATO)-associated hepatotoxicity using prescription sequence symmetry analysis (PSSA), based on a health insurance database of a Chinese population living in Jiangsu Province, China.

methodsPatients prescribed ATO and hepatoprotective drugs in 2017 were identified, and the run-in period was determined based on the "waiting-time" distribution. Adjusted sequence ratio (ASR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were calculated to estimate the risk of ATO-associated hepatotoxicity under different time intervals or based on gender and age stratification.

resultsA total of 2,549 patients, with 1,518 filling the ATO prescription first and 1,031 filling the ATO prescription second, were analyzed. After setting the run-in period as 30 days and the time interval as 15, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 180 days, the ASRs were 1.492 (95% CI: 1.367-1.652), 1.399 (95% CI: 1.308-1.508), 1.280 (95% CI: 1.213-1.357), 1.292 (95% CI: 1.234-1.356), 1.278 (95% CI: 1.226-1.336), and 1.274 (95% CI: 1.229-1.323), respectively. No significant difference was observed between different genders and ages (χ

conclusionThis is the first study conducted in a real-world setting to evaluate the relationship between ATO and hepatotoxicity using the PSSA in a Chinese population. We found a 1.3- to 1.5-fold increase in risk of hepatotoxicity following ATO, with the greater risk occurring within the first 30 days of treatment.

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atorvastatinhealth insurance databasehepatoprotective drugprescription sequence symmetry analysis

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