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Zamami Y, Niimura T, Koyama T, Shigemi Y, Izawa-Ishizawa Y, Morita M, Ohshima A, Harada K, Imai T, Hagiwara H, Okada N, Goda M, Takechi K, Chuma M, Kondo Y, Tsuchiya K, Hinotsu S, Kano MR, Ishizawa K. Search for Therapeutic Agents for Cardiac Arrest Using a Drug Discovery Tool and Large-Scale Medical Information Database. Front Pharmacol 2019; 10:1257. [PMID: 31780928 PMCID: PMC6857070 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.01257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The survival rate of cardiac arrest patients is less than 10%; therefore, development of a therapeutic strategy that improves their prognosis is necessary. Herein, we searched data collected from medical facilities throughout Japan for drugs that improve the survival rate of cardiac arrest patients. Candidate drugs, which could improve the prognosis of cardiac arrest patients, were extracted using “TargetMine,” a drug discovery tool. We investigated whether the candidate drugs were among the drugs administered within 1 month after cardiac arrest in data of cardiac arrest cases obtained from the Japan Medical Data Center. Logistic regression analysis was performed, with the explanatory variables being the presence or absence of the administration of those candidate drugs that were administered to ≥10 patients and the objective variable being the “survival discharge.” Adjusted odds ratios for survival discharge were calculated using propensity scores for drugs that significantly improved the proportion of survival discharge; the influence of covariates, such as patient background, medical history, and treatment factors, was excluded by the inverse probability-of-treatment weighted method. Using the search strategy, we extracted 165 drugs with vasodilator activity as candidate drugs. Drugs not approved in Japan, oral medicines, and external medicines were excluded. Then, we investigated whether the candidate drugs were administered to the 2,227 cardiac arrest patients included in this study. The results of the logistic regression analysis showed that three (isosorbide dinitrate, nitroglycerin, and nicardipine) of seven drugs that were administered to ≥10 patients showed significant association with improvement in the proportion of survival discharge. Further analyses using propensity scores revealed that the adjusted odds ratios for survival discharge for patients administered isosorbide dinitrate, nitroglycerin, and nicardipine were 3.35, 5.44, and 4.58, respectively. Thus, it can be suggested that isosorbide dinitrate, nitroglycerin, and nicardipine could be novel therapeutic agents for improving the prognosis of cardiac arrest patients.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yoshito Zamami
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.,Department of Pharmacy, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Evaluation and Development of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Japan
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- Department of Emergency Pharmaceutical Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Kitakyushu City Yahata Hospital, Kitakyushu-shi, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Nihon University Itabashi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medical Innovation, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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- Clinical Trial Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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- Clinical Trial Center for Developmental Therapeutics, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, Urayasu, Japan
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- Department of Medical Pharmacology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Japan
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- Department of Biostatistics, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biomedicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Japan
| | - Keisuke Ishizawa
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan.,Department of Pharmacy, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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