Safety of Rimegepant in Adults with Migraine and Anxiety, Depression, or Using Antidepressants: Analysis of a Multicenter, Long-Term, Open-Label Study.
David Kudrow, Susan Hutchinson, Glenn C Pixton, Terence Fullerton
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Abstract
Introduction: Anxiety and depression are frequently associated with migraine, and antidepressant use can complicate treatment. These analyses assessed the safety and tolerability of rimegepant in participants with migraine and anxiety and/or depression, or using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and/or other antidepressants.
Methods: Data were from a phase II/III safety study of rimegepant for the acute treatment of migraine. Participants with a history of 2-14 migraine attacks per month of moderate or severe pain intensity self-administered rimegepant 75 mg as needed up to once daily for up to 52 weeks. These post hoc subgroup analyses assessed safety according to self-reported history of anxiety (yes or no) or depression (yes or no), and current use of SSRIs (yes or no) or other antidepressants (yes or no).
Results: Of 1800 treated participants, 23.2% (n = 417) had a self-reported history of anxiety, 23.7% (n = 426) had a self-reported history of depression, and 11.2% (n = 202) reported both anxiety and depression. A total of 10.1% (n = 181) of participants were using an SSRI, 10.8% (n = 195) were using other antidepressants, and 1.8% (n = 32) were using both. Across the subgroups with anxiety, without anxiety, with depression, without depression, using SSRIs, not using SSRIs, using other antidepressants, and not using other antidepressants, respectively, similar proportions of participants reported adverse events (67.1%, 58.4%, 62.0%, 60.0%, 64.1%, 60.0%, 66.2%, 59.8%), serious adverse events (3.6%, 2.3%, 2.8%, 2.5%, 3.3%, 2.5%, 5.1%, 2.3%), and discontinuation of rimegepant due to adverse events (4.1%, 2.2%, 3.1%, 2.5%, 5.0%, 2.4%, 3.1%, 2.6%). Numerical improvements in a variety of participant-reported outcomes were also observed at weeks 12 and 52.
Conclusions: Rimegepant showed favorable safety and tolerability in adults with migraine and a history of anxiety and/or depression and with SSRI and/or other antidepressant use.
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Pain and Therapy is an international, open access, peer-reviewed, rapid publication journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality clinical (all phases), observational, real-world, and health outcomes research around the discovery, development, and use of pain therapies and pain-related devices. Studies relating to diagnosis, pharmacoeconomics, public health, quality of life, and patient care, management, and education are also encouraged.
Areas of focus include, but are not limited to, acute pain, cancer pain, chronic pain, headache and migraine, neuropathic pain, opioids, palliative care and pain ethics, peri- and post-operative pain as well as rheumatic pain and fibromyalgia.
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