Handa Y, Fukushima S, Yo S, Osawa M, Murao T, Handa O, Matsumoto H, Umegaki E, Shiotani A. Evaluation of efficacy and safety of lubiprostone in patients with chronic constipation.
Scand J Gastroenterol 2021;
56:1140-1145. [PMID:
34423734 DOI:
10.1080/00365521.2021.1913758]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
Lubiprostone is an apical type 2 chloride channel activator approved for the treatment of chronic constipation (CC), and nausea is the most common adverse symptom. However, the associated factors with the efficacy and the precise mechanism of nausea remain unclear. The aim of this study is to characterize clinical backgrounds related with the efficacy and the adverse symptoms of lubiprostone.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Subjects were patients with CC who were prescribed lubiprostone from April 2017 to October 2019. The efficacy and safety of lubiprostone were retrospectively examined using the electronic medical record.
RESULTS
Hundred and fifty-five patients (76 men, and mean age 69) were evaluated. Lubiprostone was effective in 74 patients (47.8%), and the discontinuation due to adverse in 34 patients (21.9%). including nausea, diarrhea and abdominal pain in 16, 12 and 3 patients, respectively. The efficacy was significantly associated with gender, age, body mass index (BMI), diabetes mellitus, hypertension, calcium channel blockers and antipsychotics. In multivariate analysis, the efficacy was significantly associated with men (odds ratio [OR], 3.21; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.42-7.27) and BMI (OR, 1.14; 95% CI, 1.02-1.28). The incidence of nausea was higher in patients under 65 years old, and hypertension was the significant protective factor for nausea.
CONCLUSIONS
Lubiprostone was effective for men patients with CC, and hypertension seems to be the protective factor for nausea.
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