795 Real World Safety of Vedolizumab and Anti-TNF Therapies in Biologic-Naïve Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease Patients: Results From the EVOLVE Study
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The GEMINI phase III clinical trials showed a favorable safety profile for vedolizumab (VDZ) in treating patients (pts) with moderate-to-severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD). Real-world studies are needed comparing the safety of VDZ to anti-tumor necrosis factors (anti-TNF) agents in biologic (bio)-naïve pts. METHODS: This was a multi-country (Canada, Greece and the United States) and multi-center, retrospective study including bio-naïve pts (≥18 years old) with ≥6 months follow-up, initiating treatment (Tx) with VDZ or an anti-TNF (adalimumab, infliximab, golimumab, certolizumab pegol) as standard of care between May 2014-March 2018. Data were collected from Tx initiation to earliest of death, chart abstraction date or 6 months post-Tx discontinuation (Canada only). Serious adverse events (SAEs) and serious infections (SIs) (defined as either life threatening, requiring hospital admission, resulting in significant disability/incapacity, or recorded in the chart as an important medical event) occurring from Tx initiation up to five half-lives post-Tx discontinuation were assessed. Incidence rates (per 100 person-years [PYs]) of SAEs and SIs were estimated. A Cox proportional hazards model adjusted for baseline characteristics was used to compare incidence rates between Tx cohorts. Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) are reported. RESULTS: This study included 1,095 pts (VDZ: 598 [UC: 380; CD: 218]; anti-TNF: 497 [UC: 224; CD: 273]) from 42 sites. Compared to anti-TNF pts, the VDZ cohort were older (mean [SD] age [years]: VDZ, 47.9 [17.4]; anti-TNF, 39.6 [15.2] [ P < 0.01]), were proportionately more male (VDZ, 56.9%; anti-TNF, 49.9% [ P = 0.02]) and had a longer disease duration (median [range: min-max] disease duration [years]: VDZ, 5.0 [0.04– 54.0]; anti-TNF, 2.0 [<0.1–49.0] [ P < 0.01]). Median (range: min-max) follow-up (months) was: VDZ, 15.3 (3.0-47.0); anti-TNF, 16.3 (3.5-51.0). Incidence rates of first occurrence of SAEs and SIs (Table 1) were significantly lower in VDZ versus anti-TNF pts (adjusted HR: SAE, 0.42 [0.27-0.66]; SI, 0.33 [0.18-0.58]). Similar trends were shown when data were stratified by UC and CD, separately (Table 1). CONCLUSION: Bio-naïve pts treated with VDZ were significantly less likely to experience SAEs and SIs than those treated with anti-TNF therapies. These data support a favourable safety profile of VDZ versus anti-TNF in bio-naïve inflammatory bowel disease pts in real-world clinical practice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".