産後うつ病におけるブレキサノロン注射: 2つの多センター,ダブルブラインド,ランダム化,プラセボ対照,第3相試験
Samantha Meltzer-Brody1, Helen Colquhoun2, Robert Riesenberg3
1Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Lancet (London, England)
|September 5, 2018
まとめ
ブレキサノロン注射は2つの第3相試験で産後うつ病の症状を有意に軽減しました. このGABAA受容体の調節器は,中度から重度の産後うつ病を患っている女性にとって新しい治療法を提供します.
科学分野:
- 神経科学
- 精神科
- 薬理学について
背景:
- 産後うつ病 (PPD) は罹患率の重要な原因であり,薬理学的治療の改善が必要である.
- GABAA受容体の陽性アロステリック調節剤であるブレクサノロン注射は,PPD治療のために研究されました.
研究 の 目的:
- 中度から重度の産後うつ病の治療におけるブレクサノロン注射の有効性と安全性を評価する.
主な方法:
- 2つのダブルブラインド,ランダム化,プラセボ対照のフェーズ3試験は,それぞれ138人と108人の女性で行われました.
- 参加者は静脈内ブレクサノロン (60または90μg/kg/h) またはプラセボを60時間投与された.
- 主なエンドポイントは,うつ病に対するハミルトン評価スケール (HAM- D) の合計スコアの変化でした.
主要な成果:
- ブレキサノロン注射は,両方の研究でプラセボと比較して60時間後にHAM- Dスコアで統計的に有意で臨床的に有意な減少を示した.
- 減少は急速に観察され,研究期間中に持続した.
- 一般的な有害事象には頭痛,めまい,眠気があり,重篤な有害事象はまれでした.
結論:
- ブレキサノロン注射は,出産後のうつ病に対する新しい治療法であり,迅速かつ持続的な効果を示しています.
- この薬は,この状態に苦しむ女性の治療結果を改善する可能性があります.
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