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ArticleInflammatory bowel diseases2021

Tofacitinib Treatment Safety in Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis: Comparison of Observational Population Cohort Data From the IBM MarketScan® Administrative Claims Database With Tofacitinib Trial Data.

Jeffrey R Curtis, Miguel Regueiro, Huifeng Yun, Chinyu Su, Marco DiBonaventura, Nervin Lawendy, Chudy I Nduaka, Nana Koram, Joseph C Cappelleri, Gary Chan and 2 more

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Article in Inflammatory bowel diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 5 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT00787202 phase2completednot on this map

A Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Double Blind, Parallel Group Multi-Center Study In Order To Investigate Safety And Efficacy Of CP- 690 550 In Subjects With Moderate To Severe Ulcerative Colitis.

TypeinterventionalSponsorPfizerRan2008 to 2010Enrolled195ConditionsUlcerative ColitisArmsCP- 690 550, placebo
NCT01458574 phase3completednot on this map

A Multicentre, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Study Of Oral Cp-690,550 As A Maintenance Therapy In Subjects With Ulcerative Colitis

TypeinterventionalSponsorPfizerRan2012 to 2016Enrolled593ConditionsUlcerative ColitisArmsPlacebo, CP690,550, CP-690,550
NCT01458951 phase3completednot on this map

A Multicentre, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Study Of Oral Cp-690,550 As An Induction Therapy In Subjects With Moderate To Severe Ulcerative Colitis.

TypeinterventionalSponsorPfizerRan2012 to 2015Enrolled547ConditionsUlcerative ColitisArmstofacitinib, Placebo
NCT01465763 phase3completednot on this map

A Multicentre, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-group Study Of Oral Cp-690,550 As An Induction Therapy In Subjects With Moderate To Severe Ulcerative Colitis

TypeinterventionalSponsorPfizerRan2012 to 2015Enrolled614ConditionsUlcerative ColitisArmstofacitinib, Placebo
NCT01470612 phase3completednot on this map

A multi-center, open-label study of cp-690,550 in subjects with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis

TypeinterventionalSponsorPfizerRan2012 to 2020Enrolled944ConditionsUlcerative ColitisArmsCP-690,550
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Major cardiovascular event risk of advanced therapies in inflammatory bowel diseases: systematic review and meta-analysis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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  11. Tofacitinib use in ulcerative colitis: An expert consensus for day-to-day clinical practice.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Jeffrey R CurtisDivision of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Miguel RegueiroDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Huifeng YunDivision of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Chinyu SuPfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, USA.
Marco DiBonaventuraPfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA.
Nervin LawendyPfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, USA.
Chudy I NduakaPfizer Inc, Collegeville, PA, USA.
Nana KoramPfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA.
Joseph C CappelleriPfizer Inc, Groton, CT, USA.
Gary ChanPfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA.
Irene ModestoPfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA.
Gary R LichtensteinPerelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTofacitinib is an oral, small molecule Janus kinase inhibitor for the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC). We aimed to estimate the overall incidence of safety events in patients with UC in a real-life population cohort for comparison with the tofacitinib UC clinical trial program.

methodsClinical trial-like criteria were applied to an IBM MarketScan® claims database population-based cohort (n = 22,967) of patients with UC (October 2010 to September 2015) to identify a UC trial-like cohort treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi; n = 6366) to compare with the tofacitinib UC clinical trial cohort (n = 1157).

resultsIncidence rates (events per 100 patient-years; [95% confidence interval]) in the UC trial-like cohort were as follows: serious infections, 3.33 (2.73-4.02); opportunistic infections (OIs; excluding herpes zoster [HZ]), 1.45 (1.06-1.93); HZ, 1.77 (1.34-2.29); malignancies (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer [NMSC]), 0.63 (0.43-0.90); NMSC, 1.69 (1.35-2.10); major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), 0.51 (0.31-0.79); pulmonary embolism (PE), 0.54 (0.30-0.89); deep vein thrombosis (DVT), 1.41 (1.00-1.93); and gastrointestinal perforations, 0.31 (0.16-0.54). Compared with the UC trial-like cohort, tofacitinib-treated patients had numerically lower incidence rates for serious infections (1.75 [1.27-2.36]), OIs (excluding HZ; 0.16 [0.04-0.42]), NMSC (0.78 [0.47-1.22]), PE (0.16 [0.04-0.41]), and DVT (0.04 [0.00-0.23]), and a higher rate for HZ (3.57 [2.84-4.43]); rates for malignancies (excluding NMSC), MACE, and gastrointestinal perforations were similar.

conclusionsWhen acknowledging limitations of comparing claims data with controlled clinical trial data, incidence rates for HZ among TNFi-treated patients in the UC trial-like cohort were lower than in the tofacitinib UC clinical trial cohort; rates for serious infections, OIs, NMSC, PE, and DVT were numerically higher. CLINICALTRIALS.GOV: NCT00787202, NCT01465763, NCT01458951, NCT01458574, NCT01470612.

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Colitis, UlcerativeHumansNeoplasmsOpportunistic InfectionsPiperidinesProduct Surveillance, PostmarketingPyrimidinesRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicPiperidinesPyrimidinestofacitinibindirect comparisonsafetyulcerative colitis

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PMCPMC8376127

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