Trend in the use of biological drugs in pediatric patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: Insight from the large-scale Italian VALORE project
Trend in the use of biological drugs in pediatric patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: Insight from the large-scale Italian VALORE project
(2025)
Trend in the use of biological drugs in pediatric patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: Insight from the large-scale Italian VALORE project
Anno:
2025
Tipologia prodotto:
Articolo in Rivista
Tipologia ANVUR:
Articolo su rivista
Lingua:
Inglese
Formato:
Elettronico
Referee:
No
Nome rivista:
Pharmacological Research
ISSN Rivista:
1043-6618
N° Volume:
218
Intervallo pagine:
1-12
Parole chiave:
Biological drugs; Drug utilization; Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases; Pediatrics; Persistence; Pharmacoepidemiology
Breve descrizione dei contenuti:
: Real-world data on biological drug use in pediatric patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) are scarce. This retrospective, population-based, cohort study aimed to provide an overview of biological drug use among children and adolescents with IMIDs from 2010 to 2023 using the Italian VALORE distributed database network. As secondary aim, potential of such a network for evaluating the risk of serious infections related to biological drugs in pediatrics was investigated. The yearly prevalence of use of biological drugs in IMID pediatric patients was calculated. Among incident users, persistence to adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab, golimumab, tocilizumab, secukinumab, and abatacept was measured. A sample power analysis to estimate the person-years of exposure required to investigate the association with the risk of serious infection and individual biological drug was performed. The yearly prevalence of biological drug use increased over time (+427.3 %), and it was consistently higher among females than males and among 12-17-year-olds than younger children. A total of 6222 incident biological drug users were identified, with a median follow-up of 3.8 years, and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA, 35.9 %) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs, 35.9 %) were the most common indications for use. After one year from the treatment start, more than 70 % of JIA patients using either adalimumab or etanercept were still on treatment, while persistence rates in IBDs were lower (ranging from 57.4 % to 65.0 %). Findings of this study show the potential of the VALORE network to provide enough exposure data to investigate the risk of serious infections for adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab.
Note:
Available online 28 June 2025
Id prodotto:
146610
Handle IRIS:
11562/1166170
ultima modifica:
20 agosto 2025
Citazione bibliografica:
Bellitto, Chiara; Ingrasciotta, Ylenia; Soardo, Federica; Spini, Andrea; L'Abbate, Luca; Pellegrini, Giorgia; Mathieu, Clément; Carollo, Massimo; Tuccori, Marco; Leoni, Olivia; Mazzone, Arianna; Ancona, Domenica; Stella, Paolo; Cavazzana, Anna; Scapin, Angela; Lopes, Sara; Belleudi, Valeria; Ledda, Stefano; Carta, Paolo; Rossi, Paola; Ejlli, Lucian; Sapigni, Ester; Puccini, Aurora; Scarpelli, Rita Francesca; De Sarro, Giovambattista; Gini, Rosa; Allotta, Alessandra; Pollina, Sebastiano Addario; Bucaneve, Giampaolo; Mangano, Antea Maria Pia; Balducci, Francesco; Sorrentino, Carla; Senesi, Ilenia; Trama, Ugo; Bernardi, Francesca Futura; Da Cas, Roberto; Costa, Giorgio; Urru, Silvana Anna Maria; Campomori, Annalisa; Spila Alegiani, Stefania; Massari, Marco; Gallizzi, Romina; Trifirò, Gianluca,
Trend in the use of biological drugs in pediatric patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: Insight from the large-scale Italian VALORE project«Pharmacological Research»
, vol. 218
, 2025
, pp. 1-12