Use of antidiabetic medications and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation requiring hospitalization
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Use of antidiabetic medications and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation requiring hospitalization: a disease risk score‑matched nested case–control study Meng‑Ting Wang1, Jyun‑Heng Lai1, Ya‑Ling Huang1,2, Feng‑Chih Kuo3, Yun‑Han Wang4, Chen‑Liang Tsai5 and Min‑Yu Tu6,7,8,9*
Abstract Background: Exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) severely impacts the quality of life and causes high mortality and morbidity. COPD is involved with systemic and pulmonary inflammation, which may be attenuated with antidiabetic agents exerting anti-inflammatory effects. Real-world evidence is scant regarding the effects of antidiabetic agents on COPD exacerbation. Accordingly, we conducted a disease risk score (DRS)-matched nested case–control study to systemically assess the association between each class of oral hypoglycemic agents (OHAs) and risk of severe COPD exacerbation in a nationwide COPD population co-diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods: We enrolled 23,875 COPD patients receiving at least one OHA for management of DM by analyzing the Taiwan National Health Insurance claims database between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2015. Cases of severe exacerbation were defined as those who had the first hospital admission for COPD. Each case was individually matched with four randomly-selected controls by cohort entry date, DRS (the estimated probability of encounter‑ ing a severe COPD exacerbation), and COPD medication regimens using the incidence density sampling approach. Conditional logistic regressions were performed to estimate odds ratios (OR) of severe COPD exacerbation for each type of OHAs. Results: We analyzed 2700 cases of severe COPD exacerbation and 9272 corresponding controls after DRS match‑ ing. Current use of metformin versus other OHAs was associated with a 15% (adjusted OR [aOR], 0.85; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.75–0.95) reduced risk of severe COPD exacerbation, whereas the reduced risk was not observed with other types of antidiabetic agents. When considering the duration of antidiabetic medication therapy, current use of metformin for 91–180 and 181–365 days was associated with a 28% (aOR, 0.72; 95% CI 0.58–0.89) and 37% (aOR, 0.63; 95% CI 0.51–0.77) reduced risk of severe COPD exacerbation, respectively. Similarly, 91–180 days of sulfonylureas therapy led to a 28% (aOR, 0.72; 95% CI 0.58–0.90) lower risk, and longer treatments consistently yielded 24–30% lower risks. Current use of thiazolidinediones for more than 181 days yielded an approximately 40% decreased risk.
*Correspondence: [email protected] 7 Aviation Physiology Research Laboratory, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital Gangshan Branch, No.1, Dayi 2nd Rd., Gangshan Dist., Kaohsiung City 82050, Taiwan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproductio
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