Bimatoprost 0.03% for the Treatment of Eyelash Hypotrichosis: A Pooled Safety Analysis of Six Randomized, Double-masked Clinical Trials.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Describe the safety profile of bimatoprost 0.03% ophthalmic solution as once-daily topical treatment for idiopathic or chemotherapy-induced eyelash hypotrichosis. DESIGN: Pooled data from six randomized, multicenter, double-masked, parallel-group clinical studies of at least three-months' duration with at least one bimatoprost treatment group. SETTING: Study sites in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan from 2007 to 2012. PARTICIPANTS: Adults with eyelash hypotrichosis, defined as baseline Global Eyelash Assessment of minimal or moderate, who received bimatoprost 0.03% (n=680) or vehicle, with no prior exposure to bimatoprost (n=379). MEASUREMENTS: Safety assessments included adverse events, vital sign measurements, and physical examinations. Common (≥2%) and treatment-related adverse events were analyzed at time points up to four months and through end of treatment, up to 12 months. RESULTS: Similar overall adverse events incidence was reported in bimatoprost and vehicle groups for subjects with idiopathic hypotrichosis; a higher incidence in both groups was reported for postchemotherapy subjects. Common adverse events included conjunctival hyperemia, eyelid pruritus, blepharal pigmentation, nasopharyngitis, eyelid erythema, and punctate keratitis. Most adverse events occurred early in treatment, were mild in intensity, localized to treatment site, and reversible with treatment cessation. Discontinuations due to adverse events were low (3.2% for bimatoprost and 2.4% for vehicle). CONCLUSION: Adverse events were consistent with the known pharmacologic mechanism of bimatoprost. The safety profile was similar across the studies and no new safety signals were observed. Once-daily bimatoprost 0.03% for treatment of eyelid hypotrichosis has a favorable safety and tolerability profile when applied topically to the upper eyelid margin.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.018 | 0.012 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".